Im pretty sure I have a head cold. I can’t breathe through my nose, my ears feel like they;re popping and I have a slight headache. Other than the fact my head feels like a balloon, i feel fine.
I’ve got a party later and Motrin isn’t cutting it. Whats the best decongestant that will not make me drowsy?
Thanks
Im pretty sure I have a head cold. I can’t breathe through my nose, my ears feel like they;re popping and I have a slight headache. Other than the fact my head feels like a balloon, i feel fine.
I’ve got a party later and Motrin isn’t cutting it. Whats the best decongestant that will not make me drowsy?
Thanks
I have posted several questions about pain and in this particular issue I have asked everyone I know and everyone I have spoken to since things got severe.
I have been diagnosed with “Fibromyalgia” but my doctor wants to run tests because he thinks that something else is wrong (other than the other conditions I have that cause pain like for example a bulging disc/pinched nerve in my back that I recently re-injured. No one will even that care of my pain caused by it). I have no insurance and no money so I have very very limited options, IE-I can only see the doctor I am seeing right now. Over 2 months ago my pain medication (Lortab) stopped working and my doctor refused to give me anything stronger. Because of this I lost my job, flunked out of school, I am getting evicted and having everything shut off. I had no choice but to see him in 2 months and after I told him all of this he obviously cared but still refused to give me anything for my pain.
It is now bad enough that I cant even BARELY move and get out of bed. I am pleading with whoever answers this that you please do not tell me crap about how I cant be in this much pain (I assure you, I am in a terrifyingly excruciating amount of pain, the worst I have ever experienced by far), or that I dont need medication or how I should try SSRIs or Lyrica. They dont work. He even gave me Ativan in favor of Percocet (after I told him it loops me out so that I dont even notice that I am awake and as much as I hate it I prefer it to dealing with the horrible pain with nothing helping me), which I personally find crazy since Ativan has a reputation for being much more addictive physically which is the main reason he didn’t want me to take the Percocet.
Until last night I had been awake the better part of 11 days and even the ER wouldn’t help me for that or for the migraine that I had at the time. **Just a caution for anyone just finding out they have Fibromyalgia, keep it quiet medically or it will sink you. In any normal situation I would have been given several medications right away but because my record said FMS I was immediately dismissed as either a drug addict, a liar or an attention seeker.** I know this because I have had migraines and a back injury before I had told doctors about my FMS (I had gotten the diagnosis for maybe 5 years but ignored it and never let any other doctor know. I had a kidney infection at one point but because of the FMS they wouldnt even give me motrin so maybe that will get my point across) and I know that they usually give you morphine or something similar as quickly as they can if you are in a huge amount of pain. The doctor this time–like almost every time before it since I moved from southern CA–was being negligent (he refused to give me anything for the sleep and never even spoke with me or poked his head in the door) but the nurses were very sweet, even when they acted like they were going to save me from my pain by giving me…drumroll please…TORODOL. I was surprised because I knew that they knew I was in pain and we were all aware that the Torodol would do nothing, they knew that I knew it too so why pretend it was going to help? The nurses made it very clear to me that it was my doctors job to treat my pain and my sleep deprivation. They kept asking me why he wasn’t doing his job. I wonder the same thing.
I get that this is an extreme long shot but I have no other options. Please keep in mind that I have no money or medical insurance and I have already emailed many doctors asking for help with my condition, not the pain itself. At this point I only care about stopping the pain.
Please do not just dismiss the amount of pain I am in. PLEASE. It has been exponentially worse for 8 years now and severe (meaning leaving me 90% bedridden) for 2 years and debilitating (meaning 99.999% bedridden and unable to barely walk) for 2+ months.
I took him to the ER today (sunday) b/c his fever has lasted about 2-3 days. I thought it was just teething. He has cut 2 teeth and working on 2 more. The ER doc said that he couldnt find anything wrong. Is it bad for a 10 month old to have a HIGH fever for 2-3 days in a row now?? I’ve been giving him Tylenol every 4 hours and Motrin every 6 hours. What else should I do???
I mean, the ER doc just said to keep rotating tylenol and motrin, I Just worry that such a high temp for so many days will harm him?!
