So I caved in and went to the doctor today. The diagnosis was much what I'd expect: inconclusive. They can't be sure what it is, though it more or less boils down to: "probably something following your original sickness". Maybe viral, maybe bacterial. In either case, something that would go away...within 2-4 weeks.
...But desperate, I am now on an antibiotic. I generally don't take this sort of thing. It's reckless. If it's viral, the antibiotic won't help, just slightly increasing the risk by some minuscule amount that I'll make a super-bug down the line immune to it. Antibiotics are also indiscriminate killers: there's lots of good bacteria in the body I'm getting rid of. So I'll need to figure out how to remedy this. Not gonna take an official probiotic, but I think there are foods that help. Maybe yogurt of some kind.
Anyway, so that's that. If it IS bacterial, the antibiotic should make it go away within 3 days or so. And given how miserable I've been...well. I didn't really want to go down that route, but I did cave in.
I hate pills in general, especially ones like this.
But I just...don't think I can tough it out. It's ruining my life right now. This is a level of sick I haven't been for YEARS.
...But desperate, I am now on an antibiotic. I generally don't take this sort of thing. It's reckless. If it's viral, the antibiotic won't help, just slightly increasing the risk by some minuscule amount that I'll make a super-bug down the line immune to it. Antibiotics are also indiscriminate killers: there's lots of good bacteria in the body I'm getting rid of. So I'll need to figure out how to remedy this. Not gonna take an official probiotic, but I think there are foods that help. Maybe yogurt of some kind.
Anyway, so that's that. If it IS bacterial, the antibiotic should make it go away within 3 days or so. And given how miserable I've been...well. I didn't really want to go down that route, but I did cave in.
I hate pills in general, especially ones like this.
But I just...don't think I can tough it out. It's ruining my life right now. This is a level of sick I haven't been for YEARS.
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