...from her surgeon!
yay!!!! He seemed impressed with the amount of air I'm getting already...apparently things will keep improving up to the 3 month mark which is a huge relief. I mean I'm happy with the improvement but was hoping this was not the final result so glad it isn't.
The next step is figuring out how to manage allergies but the steroid spray will buy us as much time as we need.
I was rather optimistically figuring out how much IVF will cost after medicare capped the rebated in 2010. It's worse than I hoped but I think do-able.
I'm not setting any timeframe goals though. We still need to sort out the rest of my breathing and sleeping issues and then I want to take a full 3 months beforehand to take supplements etc...and I still have more weight to lose.
I have however lost almost 10kg which is great but I still have a long way to go.
As for my crafting mojo...turns out I kind of have been crafting this past month but I didn't consider it as such. Sounds mysterious?
I'm waiting on a package in the mail which should arrive friday and then I can reveal all!
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Could it be?
That these super toxic antibiotics are actually working??
I'm feeling as vile as I expected to but the gunk in my nose is almost gone and isn't a nasty icky germy colour.
There is still gunk from constant slow bleeding that builds up but it seems to be from the antibiotics (yet another side effect).
I take my last tablet tomorrow morning so the big question is do I fill the repeat?? The surgeon didn't specify so I think he wants be to whereas last time he said it was optional.
I really don't want to since I'm sick of feeling tired and sick buuut...these abx can encourage resistant bugs if you mess about with them so I await an opinion from my sister.
It's not even been a week since I've been on them yet it feels like a month! Ergh!
I'm feeling as vile as I expected to but the gunk in my nose is almost gone and isn't a nasty icky germy colour.
There is still gunk from constant slow bleeding that builds up but it seems to be from the antibiotics (yet another side effect).
I take my last tablet tomorrow morning so the big question is do I fill the repeat?? The surgeon didn't specify so I think he wants be to whereas last time he said it was optional.
I really don't want to since I'm sick of feeling tired and sick buuut...these abx can encourage resistant bugs if you mess about with them so I await an opinion from my sister.
It's not even been a week since I've been on them yet it feels like a month! Ergh!
Saturday, July 9, 2011
And it goes on and on and on...
Rewind 15 days ago...
It was a Friday and I was just starting to reap the benefits of my op when my nose smelled funny. I thought maybe I was coming down with a cold.
next morning there was no cold but there was a fever, very sore nose and nerve pain in my teeth was back...not to mention really icky stuff coming out of my nose when I did the sinus rinses. I was feeling exhausted and feverish and just plain awful.
I waited til Monday and luckily my surgeon was in his rooms close to home. We had a chat and he also suspected post-op infection which is supposed to be "rare" especially given I had a course of antibiotics to prevent this kind of this after my surgery.
He then led me to the treatment room and did an endoscopy! I thought he'd just LOOK in my nose! As awful as the local anaesthetic spray for that is, the bill is far worse. Last time I got the camera treatment I was handed a bill for over $300.
He must have felt sorry for me since he bulk billed everything. Gave me a script for antibiotics and 1 repeat which he thought I shouldn't need but it was there just in case.
I filled the script and noticed some improvement over the next few days but not enough. I filled the repeat and no further improvement so yesterday I went back to see my surgeon.
This time he didn't stick any cameras up my nose. He snipped the stitches to help them fall out since most of the suspicious areas seemed to be around the stitches and gave me a script for what he said was the strongest nose antibiotic there is.
The main concern for both us is any infection settling onto my artificial joint and after last year's scare I'm not taking any chances!
The down side to all this is that the antibiotic is not covered by PBS and has really REALLY nasty side effects such as nerve damage, heart damage, tendon rupture, psychosis, really high or low blood sugar, increased brain pressure and overgrowth of a really nasty bacteria in the bowel.
Granted these side effects aren't all that common but we all know my track record when it comes to getting rare side effects.
Still...most of these can be reversed...most of the time and the consequences of my joint becoming infected would be far more devastating and difficult to cure so the risk is worth taking.
Just to make matters more difficult, products containing magnesium, calcium and iron need to be avoided while taking this med since it interferes with absorption.
A host of other drugs interact with it including NSAIDs.
So when I got home I got my tweezers out and pulled out as many stitches as I could (except one really stubborn one which I trimmed back) and I feel so much more comfortable.
I'm getting more tired than less so I haven't gone back to sewing yet. I'm having a lot of trouble focusing my eyes on fiddly tasks and keeping my hands steady so most of my hobbies are more of an ordeal than a pleasure at the moment!
So here's hoping in 14 days time I'll be feeling fab and able to do the next stage of my treatment. Til my nose is declared functional I can't do the sleep study...and my frame of mind isn't strong enough to deal with whatever bad news the jaw specialist has for me!
It was a Friday and I was just starting to reap the benefits of my op when my nose smelled funny. I thought maybe I was coming down with a cold.
next morning there was no cold but there was a fever, very sore nose and nerve pain in my teeth was back...not to mention really icky stuff coming out of my nose when I did the sinus rinses. I was feeling exhausted and feverish and just plain awful.
I waited til Monday and luckily my surgeon was in his rooms close to home. We had a chat and he also suspected post-op infection which is supposed to be "rare" especially given I had a course of antibiotics to prevent this kind of this after my surgery.
He then led me to the treatment room and did an endoscopy! I thought he'd just LOOK in my nose! As awful as the local anaesthetic spray for that is, the bill is far worse. Last time I got the camera treatment I was handed a bill for over $300.
He must have felt sorry for me since he bulk billed everything. Gave me a script for antibiotics and 1 repeat which he thought I shouldn't need but it was there just in case.
I filled the script and noticed some improvement over the next few days but not enough. I filled the repeat and no further improvement so yesterday I went back to see my surgeon.
This time he didn't stick any cameras up my nose. He snipped the stitches to help them fall out since most of the suspicious areas seemed to be around the stitches and gave me a script for what he said was the strongest nose antibiotic there is.
The main concern for both us is any infection settling onto my artificial joint and after last year's scare I'm not taking any chances!
The down side to all this is that the antibiotic is not covered by PBS and has really REALLY nasty side effects such as nerve damage, heart damage, tendon rupture, psychosis, really high or low blood sugar, increased brain pressure and overgrowth of a really nasty bacteria in the bowel.
Granted these side effects aren't all that common but we all know my track record when it comes to getting rare side effects.
Still...most of these can be reversed...most of the time and the consequences of my joint becoming infected would be far more devastating and difficult to cure so the risk is worth taking.
Just to make matters more difficult, products containing magnesium, calcium and iron need to be avoided while taking this med since it interferes with absorption.
A host of other drugs interact with it including NSAIDs.
So when I got home I got my tweezers out and pulled out as many stitches as I could (except one really stubborn one which I trimmed back) and I feel so much more comfortable.
I'm getting more tired than less so I haven't gone back to sewing yet. I'm having a lot of trouble focusing my eyes on fiddly tasks and keeping my hands steady so most of my hobbies are more of an ordeal than a pleasure at the moment!
So here's hoping in 14 days time I'll be feeling fab and able to do the next stage of my treatment. Til my nose is declared functional I can't do the sleep study...and my frame of mind isn't strong enough to deal with whatever bad news the jaw specialist has for me!
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