Monday, December 31, 2012

Post-Doctor: Side Effects of Antibiotics

So it's now been 2 days of antibiotics.. Are they working? Heck if I know.. Emotionally speaking I feel good taking them.. They look intimidating and smell like hard boiled eggs.. They must help, I think to myself..

*Read below if you enjoy graphic nasty things or happen to have an oozing skin issue*
WELL, they aren't.. @__@ Normally I am pro-pill, I'm talking uber fortification all the pills etc..
Again. I'm still doing my same sugar-crazy energy-bar maddening diet. In fact my brother did a fitness test on my intake of foods for his nutrition class and it popped up I was ridiculously "healthy".. Probably because I ate all those energy bars.

My graph on Fitday.com was something like 75% carbs, 50% of those being sugar (they didn't really point this out explicitly in the colored graph but being an ex-super-OCD eater I knew calories/ nutrition facts of the foods I eat like the back of my hand. You could ask me right now how many calories are in any food and I can guess it and only be about 20 calories off max. Oddly enough, other, perhaps more useful data tends to escape me.)

Anyhoo, back to the pills!! SO here I am taking these things when I can't help to realize that my neck is INSANELY pussy. I'm talking I can't move it.. Like, I can't bend it back without it feeling like I'm ripping skin off the front area of my neck. And the right side is 24/7 pussy. And, when I get in water it stings like nothing I've ever felt before..

It's so bad I tell people half-jokingly I'd like an immediate painless death to escape the maddening pain (I don't even know how people with terminal illnesses deal with this-- you all are my new heros.. @__@)

Plus, it's getting worse. I'm talking waking up with a oozing pool of puss around this scabby thing.
Antibiotics are supposed to defeat this sort of infection but it seems these pills are doing the reverse.

I tell myself it's fixing the issue and releasing the germs and continue taking the pills.. Plus, you're supposed to or you allegedly make it worse.. 11 days I think. Man, this is going to suck. I'm using colloquial terms because just typing this is making me cringe at the memories.. I luckily can't remember the sheer pain but I can remember how brain dead I felt.

I was so so thankful it didn't show. My neck was just red.. Or, crusty, Or, some other combo of itchy, pussy, dry skin.. I also used my hair to cover it (but had to make sure it didn't touch).

I washed my neck often due to the fear it would get infected. Did endless searches..

"Weeping Skin" they call it.. My symptoms sounded like poison ivy / oak.. I applied all Neosporin on the open wound to try to assure germs wouldn't get in.. Wanted to bandage it but it was such a large area that didn't work.

1.5 weeks later I would cave in and go to Urgent care.

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