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drwex2-second update: No, I'm still not well. No, I'm still not sick. No, we don't know what's wrong.
I'm still having body issues and have frightened myself fairly seriously twice now. Issues might be a combination of the extremely weird diet and the high dose of Cipro I'm taking this week, plus too little sleep and too much stress.
Why Cipro? Because the last time I had severe histamine reactions I believe it was caused by a food-poisoning bacterium that I failed to flush out with lesser methods. So I nuked it from orbit with antibiotics. The docs I've talked to so far agree that - given my history - this is a fairly sensible thing to try.
Winchester ER gets its first negative marks for failing to send records to my doc despite clear requests and signed permission forms. I'm supposed to go in on Wed for another barium swallow and X rays and I want my doc to see what was done before we do more films. My abdomen has taken a high dose of rads this month already and I'd like not to repeat uselessly what's been done.
Additional diagnostic info should come from the stool sample culture, plus I did a 24-hour urine test. Yeah, we're not talking pee into a cup here. This is a frelling JUG. Actually you can't pee into the jug because it has a preservative acid in it, but still. Man, a jug.
(Amusing and sad sidelights: I had to avoid a bunch of foods while doing this test. I was amused to realize how big a part of my diet eggplant and bananas had become. The diet sheet noted that if you're being tested for arsenic or any heavy metals then you should avoid all seafood for 48 hours before the test. Sad that there's now so much crap in our seafood.)
Blood work Friday re-confirmed what the ER saw, or rather didn't see, on Thursday: I don't have an infection. White cell count quite normal, and there's clear evidence of a histamine reaction. To what is the question. My doc has a couple of theories but he admits both are long shots. I'm hoping that the dump of diagnostic data will tell him something because the uncertainty is making me more than a little twitchy.
Whoever said "pain focuses the mind" was full of sh*t. Being in pain pretty completely destroys my ability to focus.
I'm still having body issues and have frightened myself fairly seriously twice now. Issues might be a combination of the extremely weird diet and the high dose of Cipro I'm taking this week, plus too little sleep and too much stress.
Why Cipro? Because the last time I had severe histamine reactions I believe it was caused by a food-poisoning bacterium that I failed to flush out with lesser methods. So I nuked it from orbit with antibiotics. The docs I've talked to so far agree that - given my history - this is a fairly sensible thing to try.
Winchester ER gets its first negative marks for failing to send records to my doc despite clear requests and signed permission forms. I'm supposed to go in on Wed for another barium swallow and X rays and I want my doc to see what was done before we do more films. My abdomen has taken a high dose of rads this month already and I'd like not to repeat uselessly what's been done.
Additional diagnostic info should come from the stool sample culture, plus I did a 24-hour urine test. Yeah, we're not talking pee into a cup here. This is a frelling JUG. Actually you can't pee into the jug because it has a preservative acid in it, but still. Man, a jug.
(Amusing and sad sidelights: I had to avoid a bunch of foods while doing this test. I was amused to realize how big a part of my diet eggplant and bananas had become. The diet sheet noted that if you're being tested for arsenic or any heavy metals then you should avoid all seafood for 48 hours before the test. Sad that there's now so much crap in our seafood.)
Blood work Friday re-confirmed what the ER saw, or rather didn't see, on Thursday: I don't have an infection. White cell count quite normal, and there's clear evidence of a histamine reaction. To what is the question. My doc has a couple of theories but he admits both are long shots. I'm hoping that the dump of diagnostic data will tell him something because the uncertainty is making me more than a little twitchy.
Whoever said "pain focuses the mind" was full of sh*t. Being in pain pretty completely destroys my ability to focus.
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Date: 2007-03-27 01:27 pm (UTC)