I had to change primary Drs because mine left, so this was my first experience in person with Dr R. He was thorough, caring and gave me a plan in specific medical steps. He also is doing everything he can to keep me out of a CT machine since I have had way over my radiation limit for the year due to the surgeries, and he is trying to avoid referring me to ear, nose and throat because he said they will want to look at it surgically. I said a polite thanks but hell no to that one. So, he went to the ENT depts site on his computer, found out their treatment protocols and told me we could just do all of those and hopefully be done with it. I think he's a keeper!!
However, sadly, despite the intense regime of antibiotics twice a day, Flonase 2x a day, saline spray 4x a day, Sudafed 2x a day and Mucinex once a day I haven't seen much improvement.
To put it simply I feel like my eyeballs will one flying out of my head from the pressure and I want to rip the teeth out of the right side of my mouth they hurt so bad. I can't stop pushing on my cheekbones even tho it doesn't help. Y'all know exactly what I'm talking about if you've ever had a sinus infection. It's no worse than a traditional one, just never ending! Three solid weeks now.
If this doesn't work by this weekend I'll need broad spectrum antibiotics (think kill EVERYTHING, and the kind they use for antibiotic resistant infections) for 6 wks, but I asked him if I could wait a few days in between so I could try to avoid those if at all possible. Bad news there.
So, that's where we stand now. More good news is the PT for my back seems to be helping! It's hard to tell right now because, in a weird twist of events, whenever I'm "sick" with an infection of some sort (which, believe or not doesn't happen often besides these sinus ones) my body feels better. My immune system is working on attacking and fighting this infection instead of attacking and eating away at my spine. So.....
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