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Re: Blog Thread IIIb : Look Who's Blogging Now
Barmymoo:
Holy crap you guys I am ill again. If I am correct, this is the fourth time I have had gastric flu since I arrived here in January. I've also had innumerable colds and near-constant fatigue.
I think I am going home in April instead. The decision has basically been made in my head but I need to talk to my mum about it, and then take it to my employer (she already knows it's on the cards and is being very supportive).
I really don't want to have to leave, but more than that I'm worried that I have screwed up my immune system pretty badly. I got tonsillitis last June, is it unreasonable to think that it should be better by now?
At choir practice last night my throat was bleeding, and I realised that this happens quite a lot. My vocal range has shifted down by about four tones, meaning that I'm now most comfortable singing the tenor part at pitch (which I'm not allowed to do, so I sing a higher part which makes me bleed internally).
Basically I wanted to come here and mope about it because I can't really talk about it on my blog or anything until I've made a proper decision and told my employer, but it feels like a heavy weight I'm carrying round with me. One of those damned if you do, damned if you don't decisions.
Also I'm starving, I haven't eaten for twenty-seven hours and have thrown up twice since then so I'm running on negative food.
The Seldom Killer:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 25 Mar 2011, 07:54 ---Holy crap you guys I am ill again. If I am correct, this is the fourth time I have had gastric flu since I arrived here in January. I've also had innumerable colds and near-constant fatigue.
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I would suggest that you have had the same flu etc recurring since January. The brother-in-law had a similar problem with tonsilitis and other stuff and kept getting too ill but would go back to work as soon as he felt able to. In the end his boss put him on extended recuperation leave and promised to fire him if he set foot on company grounds during that time (about two months). He thought it was new illnesses but turns out not.
nekowafer:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 25 Mar 2011, 07:54 ---I got tonsillitis last June, is it unreasonable to think that it should be better by now?
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Were you treated with antibiotics? If so, it should have cleared up in two weeks or less. You may want to consider having your tonsils removed. Either way I definitely think you should go to an ear/nose/throat doctor about the bleeding. That's not normal at all.
I'm getting my tonsils removed in April or May and I am sooo excited. They are like baseballs in my throat and I'm going to be able to get through a day without coughing/clearing my throat when they're gone and it's gonna be awesome.
Barmymoo:
I wasn't actually treated with anything. I got sick on the Monday night, I think, and staggered to the doctors on Wednesday for an unrelated appointment I'd made previously. The doctor sort of went "wow that is pretty bad", took a swab of my tonsils and told me to stay in bed (not hard to stick to since standing or even sitting up made me feel like I was going to die). I stayed in bed for about a week and then set off on a three-month theatre extravaganza, in the meantime picking up erythyma nodosum and post-viral fatigue, both as a result of being too stupid to let myself get better.
Then I went back to uni, discovered I had a serious problem, was sent home, spent a month recovering, declared myself fit to work and moved to another country without seeing a doctor.
So yeah, I have no doubt at all that you guys are right and it's all connected and plus I have to see a doctor about it. I don't want to try and see anyone here because my French isn't up to it and I don't think my health insurance covers it, so it will have to wait til I go home.
TL;DR: I am a complete moron when it comes to looking after my health.
nekowafer:
Your doctor should have given you antibiotics immediately. Unchecked infections can cause problems. Just let the doc you see back at home know that you weren't treated, aside from rest. Hopefully it has nothing to do with it, but it's good for them to know.
I used to be awful about taking care of myself until I almost died from doing a relatively healthy thing (taking birth control). Now I'm going to at least 3 different doctors a month, and only one of them has anything to do with the pulmonary embolism. I need to not fall apart at the age of 25. I know it sucks but taking care of it now means less chance of it getting worse and/or biting you in the ass somewhere down the line.
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