Four days of being sick, followed by 10 days of being in bed, one urgent care visit and a visit to the hospital ER, I am pushing myself upright today.
Long story short - low immune system allowed me to pick up walking pneumonia, doctor prescribed a pill that ended up killing all my good bacteria, hence the trip to the hospital. I ended up more sick than I was in the being, more pain, and agonizing nausea (the just repeated a process that was painful and exhausting). It felt like the antibiotic was trying to kill me.
I'm not even close to being back to normal. The trip to recovery is very very slow. My energy level is the lowest of all lows.
While I was in one hospital getting treatment, and pumped with sodium and other things (my sodium was low from not being able to eat), our son was in another hospital getting tests for being sick. He however, will involve a surgery. Either last night or tonight he had/or will have surgery for appendicitis. Hubby is going up there later. Unfortunately, my health is on conducive to that much moving around yet. As you can see, my brain is not functioning on even one cylinder yet.
Oh, to top that off, our 17 year-old called Hubby as we were returning from the hospital. She was screaming she was bleeding all over the floor and had cut her foot. He raced us home, only to find a few drops of blood on the floor. Crisis averted. She doesn't like the site of blood.
By evening, I asked my 17-year old to mix me up a special smoothie. I needed food in me, and crackers and toast were not tasting good at all. She brought me the best tasting smoothie, and probably my first meal in 2 weeks. I ate it all. With a spoon, to avoid gas. She mixed organic non-gmo probiotic juice mix with organic yogurt, some banana, and lots of ice. Oh my gosh it tasted so good. I most likely will have one for breakfast, if my nausea med kicks in. The are giving me stuff they give to cancer patients, the nausea is that bad. This antibiotic really is/was the pill that tried to kill me.
As for the doctors at the hospital, in the end they would not confirm nor deny that the antibiotic made me sick. They did every test they could, including a CT scan, and came up with nothing that would cause it.
I hope this doesn't take too much longer to recover from.
Long story short - low immune system allowed me to pick up walking pneumonia, doctor prescribed a pill that ended up killing all my good bacteria, hence the trip to the hospital. I ended up more sick than I was in the being, more pain, and agonizing nausea (the just repeated a process that was painful and exhausting). It felt like the antibiotic was trying to kill me.
I'm not even close to being back to normal. The trip to recovery is very very slow. My energy level is the lowest of all lows.
While I was in one hospital getting treatment, and pumped with sodium and other things (my sodium was low from not being able to eat), our son was in another hospital getting tests for being sick. He however, will involve a surgery. Either last night or tonight he had/or will have surgery for appendicitis. Hubby is going up there later. Unfortunately, my health is on conducive to that much moving around yet. As you can see, my brain is not functioning on even one cylinder yet.
Oh, to top that off, our 17 year-old called Hubby as we were returning from the hospital. She was screaming she was bleeding all over the floor and had cut her foot. He raced us home, only to find a few drops of blood on the floor. Crisis averted. She doesn't like the site of blood.
By evening, I asked my 17-year old to mix me up a special smoothie. I needed food in me, and crackers and toast were not tasting good at all. She brought me the best tasting smoothie, and probably my first meal in 2 weeks. I ate it all. With a spoon, to avoid gas. She mixed organic non-gmo probiotic juice mix with organic yogurt, some banana, and lots of ice. Oh my gosh it tasted so good. I most likely will have one for breakfast, if my nausea med kicks in. The are giving me stuff they give to cancer patients, the nausea is that bad. This antibiotic really is/was the pill that tried to kill me.
As for the doctors at the hospital, in the end they would not confirm nor deny that the antibiotic made me sick. They did every test they could, including a CT scan, and came up with nothing that would cause it.
I hope this doesn't take too much longer to recover from.
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http://ohdeardrea.blogspot.nl/2016/12/c-difficile-c-diff-gut-repair-supplment.html
In her blog (archive) somewhere she also states which antibiotic it was.
Hope you will feel better soon!
Wendy
It would seem to me that yogurt, juice, and maybe some baby rice cereal would be the best thing you could eat right now...yogurt for the good bacteria cultures, juice for the energy vitamins and baby rice for a bit of iron and bulk that is easy on your stomach.
Praying for your son too. An appendectomy is another thing that takes a while to recover from because of the stitches through the muscles of the abdomen, but nowadays they have rehab that helps with that recovery.
Glad you're getting better and we're hearing from you again, but remember - take it slow. We can wait....and so can heaven.
With love.
God bless.
RB
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