I'm taking erythromycin at the moment, 500mg BD (was 250, QDS, but I decided to alter the dosing schedule a bit, so it sits easier on my insides.
And As for how I'm feeling....ohhh thank FUCKING FUCK!. I just managed to get hold of my usual doc, slippery bugger as he is always going on holiday, but compassionate and not stingy either.
Gave me my meds earlier, as I increased my dose of oxycontin for a couple of days because of the pain of the muscle infection. Jesus H, that was sore as hell. I'm just thankful it wasn't dental.
Not healed yet, just day II of antibiotic regimen. But I just walked off with a larger than usual rx for some OCs, as well as some clonidine (adrenal blocker, in a manner of speaking, works by stimulating adrenergic autoreceptors which act as a negative feedback mechanism, and in effect, slam the breaks on (nor)adrenaline release. One of the best meds I have ever been on. Works absolutely fucking fantastic for a whole host of inconveniences-overloads. Just do not happen, short of absolute major fuck-one's-little old lady pensioner grandmother sideways up both holes with a rusty fork A** grade fertilizer meeting up with an industrial fan level of catastrophe. And it will bring me OUT of an overload pretty quickly.
Increases my appetite (I have always had a very low, inconsistent appetite. Sometimes I will want to shovel food up my face as if the plate of bacon and wild mushrooms I have for breakfast will be my very last, yet other times, randomly more or less, it might take me a week to notice I more than want a snack.
And helps me sleep. Whilst it doesn't interfere if I choose not to let it, it makes for a nonaddictive, very effective, sedative.
Longer acting than the alpha2 adrenoreceptor agonist I used to be on (tizanidine). I used to get regular, repeated bouts of rebound effects, in essence, despite being non-dependence forming, a taper MUST be done if coming off it after extended use it still induces a withdrawal. So I had to deal with soaring body temperature, hypertension, shaking, jaw tension, increased myoclonus (got a problem there anyway but it really doesn't help things, or rather, didn't)
Basically all down to the short half life of the drug I switched from, tizanidine, to clonidine. Tizanidine kept wearing off while it was meant to be be. And the adrenergic rebound is awful feeling, utter, total insomnia, shaking, piloerection, constant need to piss, And all at he above are just the more pleasant of the effects of a rebound.
They couldn't do that with me, and penicillins. The Bitch almost offed me actually, by allowing me to mistake a dose of some nasty beta-lactam antibiotic It was rx'd. Apparently I ended up comatose for a short time before I could be brought round.
And after a relatively recent seizure, I am scared to go into hospitals now, after coming within literally minutes of being shot up with naloxone, after the idiots
assume I had taken an overdoes of CODEINE!
For fucks sake.....I take a MINIMUM of 80mg of oxy a day. more often than not though I''ll bang maybe as many as 6 OC 40s a day, IV. I find contentment to bee obtainable thusly. Can't wait until I see the pain specialist.
Just randomly found a huge family sized bag of black liquorice sticks. I cannot resist the stuff, and this is moist, tender, yet nice and satisfyingly chewy. First bite of food to pass my lips in over a week now. And gods damn, once I start on the stuff there is no stopping, not until I have either-A-spent up, B-eaten all the liquorice the local pharmacy that sells it has no more left to sell, or C-stuffed my face until fit to burst. My old man should KNOW by know that if I offer to share, the offer would never bee made if not genuine, BUT.....get it while its hot, so to speak. I'll munch through 2 kilos of black liquorice in a sitting if I can get it, but if I do offer someone any, and I am always willing to share things that are my own, with friends, family etc. it just won't BE there very long. So get some and save it for later, because I see liquorice, and its like asking a starving crackhead to part with his last pipe and the last few pennies he has for a meal. NOT going to happen in THIS Bee's lifetime. I'd as soon bend over, tuck my dick in between my legs, stuff it up my chocolate starfih, and take a gigantic slash and wash my eyeballs clean from the inside out
As for infection being the source of the nausea-no, it is DEFINITELY the erythromycin. When a bright lurid red 'pellet' the identical shade of suspiciously identical company less than 15 minutes after taking the first dose, then I feel like I just got suckerpunched in the stomach by a gorilla wearing my set of steel knuckles.
Feeling a LOT better though, now I have some decent sedating antihistamine (I can't tolerate diphenhydramine, or worse, dimenhydrinate, but I have some clorphenamine, a nasal decongestant spray...just lovely, I've had something fluey lately. Sinuses felt like I had just tried toinhaling a brick sideways. And I'm quite happy with the way today's appointment went. Managed to get my doc to put me back on chlormethiazole, an oldschool sedative often used for detoxins alcoholics, and surprisingly, in old people. Closer to a barbiturate in action than any benzo, unlike benzos, which I need high doses of to really feel much and to actually MAKE me sleep, it takes doses that would make my doc turn pale at the thought, although I have zero built up tolerance. Got him to put me back on it, rather than the original 1x192mg at night, to get 2X192mg as BD dosing, this time for managing my myoclonus, after telling him I no longer feel safe working. Either working with power tools making guitar parts, such as a welding torch, an ancient, although really fucking sweet metal lathe, and a circular saw that would take off a finger or three in a heartbeat with one slip.
And my lab work. Its just. there in the back of my mind 'whats the worst that could happen if I twitch while holding....*XXX insert hazardous compound here*
Something highly corrosive, like concentrated sulfuric acid, or fuming nitric on the less dangerous end of the scale, or at the other, something of extreme toxicity, and like for instance, white phosphorus, other properties such as spontaneous ignition on exposure to air.
I don't want to have to constantly be on my guard in ways that ordinary due diligence and safety procedures just do not require. A fire extinguisher seconds away, suitable elbow-length gloves and a gas mask/closed circuit O2 supply, as well as thoroughly familiarizing myself with everything I will be using, at every stage of any reaction I get stewing up in there should bee enough without having to worry about medical problems.
Sure as hell makes for a decent sleep aid too. With benzos I have to actually take a sufficient dose to turn me into an incoordinated, boneless heap on the bed. But this stuff lets me keep a clear head on my shoulders if I want to remain functional.
Whats wrong miss K ?
You feeling ok there hun? *hugs*
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