Sev (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} tropism) wrote,@ 2008-03-05 03:23:00 |
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Whee, I have a sinus infection.
At least, I'm pretty sure I do. It's in one of the sinuses behind my right cheek, and when I'm not on my combination of pseudephedrine and asprin, it make it feel like two or three of my teeth have horrible, horrible cavities. That's a neat trick, since one of those teeth is a wisdom tooth, and I don't have it any more, and another one has had a root canal. So, I figured it had to be sinus-related, putting pressure on the nerve that runs down there.
...Then, today, I came up with a symptom highly indicative of a sinus infection, but one I've never run into before: bad breath coming out of my nose. I brushed and flossed like three times, went nuts trying to find the source of the horrible odor in my room, before I realised it was coming out of my nose. Christ, this is nasty.
If it doesn't clear up tomorrow, I'm gonna see if my physican can work me in Friday morning, 'cause I won't be able to take this much longer. Y'know, I wish it was possible for responsible people to just be able to go to the pharmacy and get a course of antibiotics. Going to the doctor for this is like me calling up tech support when my cable modem isn't working; I know what's going on, I know what they're going to tell me to do, and 90% of the time I figured out what the problem is long before they do. I -know- my doctor will prescribe me some generic antibiotics -- it'll be whatever you take when you can't take amoxicillin because of a penicillin allergy. To me, the doctor's visit is just throwing money down the hole and wasting both of our times. Same thing with ear infections; I got them relatively frequently when I was a kid, and when I knew I had one that wasn't gonna just go away, I'd tell my mom we needed to go to the doctor, he'd diagnose an ear infection, I'd get the usual antibiotics, etc.
This is yet another one of those cases where the stupid people ruin it for the rest of us; because they can't be trusted to be responsible, no one can be.
At least, I'm pretty sure I do. It's in one of the sinuses behind my right cheek, and when I'm not on my combination of pseudephedrine and asprin, it make it feel like two or three of my teeth have horrible, horrible cavities. That's a neat trick, since one of those teeth is a wisdom tooth, and I don't have it any more, and another one has had a root canal. So, I figured it had to be sinus-related, putting pressure on the nerve that runs down there.
...Then, today, I came up with a symptom highly indicative of a sinus infection, but one I've never run into before: bad breath coming out of my nose. I brushed and flossed like three times, went nuts trying to find the source of the horrible odor in my room, before I realised it was coming out of my nose. Christ, this is nasty.
If it doesn't clear up tomorrow, I'm gonna see if my physican can work me in Friday morning, 'cause I won't be able to take this much longer. Y'know, I wish it was possible for responsible people to just be able to go to the pharmacy and get a course of antibiotics. Going to the doctor for this is like me calling up tech support when my cable modem isn't working; I know what's going on, I know what they're going to tell me to do, and 90% of the time I figured out what the problem is long before they do. I -know- my doctor will prescribe me some generic antibiotics -- it'll be whatever you take when you can't take amoxicillin because of a penicillin allergy. To me, the doctor's visit is just throwing money down the hole and wasting both of our times. Same thing with ear infections; I got them relatively frequently when I was a kid, and when I knew I had one that wasn't gonna just go away, I'd tell my mom we needed to go to the doctor, he'd diagnose an ear infection, I'd get the usual antibiotics, etc.
This is yet another one of those cases where the stupid people ruin it for the rest of us; because they can't be trusted to be responsible, no one can be.
