Doxycycline staph sinus infection

So I have been suffering with gastroparesis since 2015 and many neurological symptoms since 2017 including problems with vision, headaches, mental health issues, pain, fatigue, sinus issues, brain fog, etc. Does anyone know the best way to test for lyme and other possible infections? I am relentlessly searching until I figure out the root of my symptoms. I have tested positive for candida overgrowth in the past, didn't clear it out fully I don't think, so it's still here. I am really struggling here. Thank you.

I have posted previously about my history. The short story is: 4 pregnancies, 1 live birth, no living children (that is really depressing math!). RPL panel normal, I have endometriosis (diagnosed via Receptiva), doing IVF. Like many here, I get pregnant really easily but cannot seem to get out of the first trimester.
After each of my losses, my RE has done chronic endometritis (CD-138) testing. Every single time we have tested for CD-138, it has come back positive, even when testing post abx course. I have also had a hysteroscopy wherein we removed some "polyp-like" benign structures. The polyps came back positive for CE. I have done the EMMA/ALICE four times: 1 time my biome was perfect, 2 times it showed an overgrowth of a reproductive tract pathogen (they are commonly present but I had a disbyosis), and 1 time it showed absolutely nothing. I have taken Azythromycin x2, Amoxicillin, Clindamycin, and Doxycycline in the last 18 months.
My transfer protocol for my last pregnancy included prednisone, loratadine, aspirin, and famotidine (in addition to PIO and estrogen). It went great, until we miscarried and had a massive SCH at 9-10 weeks, right around the time that I started to taper the prednisone.
I am so fucking tired and really at a loss for what to do next. Has anyone here done any alternative treatments for recurrent CE? Like an endometrial infusion? Or a triple antibiotic regimen? I am not convinced this is even an "infection" but really just an inflammatory issue.
I do NAC cycling to reduce inflammation, eat well (high fiber, tons of veggies), limit caffeine and alcohol, take probiotics (oral and vaginal), meditate, exercise, go to therapy. I cannot make too many "lifestyle" changes without damaging my mental health, which is unfortunately at an all time low, coming up on two years of trying since the death of my son.

I have posted previously about my history. The short story is: 4 pregnancies, 1 live birth, no living children (that is really depressing math!). RPL panel normal, I have endometriosis (diagnosed via Receptiva), doing IVF. Like many here, I get pregnant really easily but cannot seem to get out of the first trimester.
After each of my losses, my RE has done chronic endometritis (CD-138) testing. Every single time we have tested for CD-138, it has come back positive, even when testing post abx course. I have also had a hysteroscopy wherein we removed some "polyp-like" benign structures. The polyps came back positive for CE. I have done the EMMA/ALICE four times: 1 time my biome was perfect, 2 times it showed an overgrowth of a reproductive tract pathogen (they are commonly present but I had a disbyosis), and 1 time it showed absolutely nothing. I have taken Azythromycin x2, Amoxicillin, Clindamycin, and Doxycycline in the last 18 months.
My transfer protocol for my last pregnancy included prednisone, loratadine, aspirin, and famotidine (in addition to PIO and estrogen). It went great, until we miscarried and had a massive SCH at 9-10 weeks, right around the time that I started to taper the prednisone.
I am so fucking tired and really at a loss for what to do next. Has anyone here done any alternative treatments for recurrent CE? Like an endometrial infusion? Or a triple antibiotic regimen? I am not convinced this is even an "infection" but really just an inflammatory issue.
I do NAC cycling to reduce inflammation, eat well (high fiber, tons of veggies), limit caffeine and alcohol, take probiotics (oral and vaginal), meditate, exercise, go to therapy. I cannot make too many "lifestyle" changes without damaging my mental health, which is unfortunately at an all time low, coming up on two years of trying since the death of my son.

hello! i’m a 21 y/o female and one of my last ditch efforts is to see if anyone else has experienced what i’ve got going on. for about over a month, i’ve been feeling just not myself, unbalanced, vertigo…just completely off kilter. saw my PCP a few weeks ago and told me i had a sinus infection and fluid in both of my ears. took steroids and antibiotics with no luck - came back a week later and fluid still in ears with new pressure and some pain in ears. told me to follow up with an ENT and i saw them today and lo and behold they now see NO fluid! (doc prescribed me with higher steroids ) still feel like something is off and i’m wondering if anyone has experienced this with anxiety. i’ve had physical symptoms before that are tied with anxiety but nothing like this, and not for this long. sorry for the long post! anything is appreciated!

I 24F got into a three day argument with my Boyfriend 30M for dumb reasons I have apologized for numerous times. He hasn’t apologized for any of it at btw. We talked last night after I went to my moms house because I got upset with him when he was saying he wasn’t upset with me but wasn’t doing the little things he would normally do showing me he was still upset with me over all this. His excuses were I’m not emotionally ready to be around his kids, he was upset about a comment about his grandmas dog, and other comments he couldn’t even tell me. He was upset I just acted normal when I came back home for a blip to get a couple things and when I gave him a smirk when I first left to go to my moms.
Here is my side of this first one I am emotionally ready for his kids he is only saying this cause I keep asking for alone time because I need a break from time to time. I personally am getting overstimulated at work, then we have to drive to his moms house and get his kids and there are 5 kids all under the age of 10 which require a lot of attention so I’m getting overstimulated there. 3 of them are his sisters who live there with his parents. He has a 2 and 3 year old. We get home I don’t get time to wind down and relax I do my hw and go to bed cause I’m so tired and then we get up and go back to his moms with kids and all those kids are still there and sometimes more of them are there. All I asked is for one day to myself so I can relax and decompress and sometimes I only need to do it for a couple hours and be in mind you these are our days off as well. I get told oh you don’t want to spend time with me or the kids or oh you don’t love me and the kids and I call him out on that and I tell him no that’s not true and he knows it. He expects me to be this super woman but I have to be able to get a moment of peace to be the best I can be.
Second one yes that one was an bad comment and I can fully agree to that I should’ve been more supportive but instead of calling me out on it he held onto it and is making it a bigger deal then it really is.
Thirdly this all started when I rushed myself to the ER cause I had light headed/dizzyness, my whole body was hot, I wanted to puke, and I started bleeding down there. My mom freaked me out and told me it could be the start of sepsis and I needed to go asap. He wanted me to wait 20-30mins for him to figure out what to do with his kids. I told him I couldn’t wait and went to the ER. Instead of continuing to try and find someone to watch the kids he gave up and sat in the bed watching his car show and sat on his phone and argued with me the whole time I was in the hospital. Where I was scared and wanted him by my side. All he needed to tell me was I’m sorry I can’t find anyone to watch the kids but I’m here for you and you will be okay. No I got argued for not waiting for him and I should’ve waited and all this other garbage. Things were definitely said especially on both sides and I did apologize for what I said and my actions but he is continuing to blame me.
We talked about it all last night and he couldn’t give me an answer where we are at. His answer is idk I need to think. I forgave him for so much garbage and what he has done to me that just because I have been crabby, sick, tired, and want a little bit of alone time he can’t forgive me. He got so drunk last Wednesday he could even change his kids diapers let stay awake long enough to say bye to them when his ex came and got them. Then I called him out on it when we got home and he yelled at me in my face and told me to leave but I didn’t I stayed at his lowest point. He has told me if I was pregnant by b***ch there’s the door leave. The doctors thought I could have been having a miscarriage because of switching birth controls or pregnant and he wouldn’t have cared and hasn’t.
Honestly I’m not sure where we stand either idk what to do. I’m tired of always being the bad guy in his eyes. I’m tired of always having to be 100% for him and if I’m not I’m this horrible human being. If he can’t forgive me for a couple comments then why do I have to alway forgive him for his mistakes and hurtful words. Btw I had sever dehydration and complications from a sinus infection.
I’m also in a pickle cause if we do break up I’m still going to have to live with him regardless till I can find a place to live. I have gone down the mom route but she has told me I am not allowed to move back in with her I have to get my own place. I also did inform him of this in our talk.

Anybody get sinus congestion/inflammation when on ABVD? I've had light-ish congestion/headache mostly around the nose/eyes, stronger on one side for the past 2 months, it hasn't really gone away or gotten worse. Congestion at night, morning, whenever there is discharge, it is light colored/clear. Is this a normal reaction?
I read that ABVD can affect mucous membranes, so I assume that can also affect sinus membranes? I've had them look at my ear and throat and no sight of infection.

25f, diagnoses: Crohn’s disease of both small and large intestine, generalized anxiety disorder, moderate episodes of major depressive disorder, ADHD, insomnia, immunosuppression due to drug therapy. Medications: renflexis bi-monthly infusions for Crohn’s, buspirone for anxiety.
History of the current issue: I did a course of augmentin for 10 days for a sinus infection. On day 10 I noticed blood in my urine. Sometimes it is pink other times it is brownish/orange. It was brownish/orange a few days before I noticed pink/blood on day 10. I immediately called the doctor and got a urine test. The urine test showed large amounts of blood and over 2000mg protein, and no infection, so they referred me to urology. I am peeing very frequently throughout the day and night. I am also experiencing bladder pressure/discomfort and lower back pain and hip pain. I am also very tired and feel the need to sleep a lot. No fever. I have also had lower back pain and hip pain in the past.
How can I prepare for my urology appointment? What should I expect? Any guesses on what is wrong with me?

I mean , their the best place to go when you need treatment or get checked out but man already twice in one month but it’s like the fear of your lungs being so messed up it’s like what’s next 😭😭😭 anyway I want to share something really positive , I’m gonna be seeing one of the best respirologist in Ontario , basically my lungs react to everything , viruses literally put me in the ER now and my symptoms come back after prednisone . it all got worse after a sinus infection end of March and was put on antibiotics then got sick again while travelling and since then everything went down hill . I’m on maximum treatment . My asthma specialist thinks I need better quality care than he can provide , in the last 7 months I’ve had my first ER visit , pneumonia, sinus infection , some weird cold/flu , and a 2nd ER visit then prednisone wore off and symptoms came back and a week later hospital again . now going for a CT scan to find out if I need antibiotic treatment along with a stronger asthma regimen and further testing with lung function

I have a doctors appointment in exactly a week with an infectious disease specialist. I have been on candida diet for about 2 weeks, carnivore for one. Taking lots of natural antifungals, gentian violet etc. I am making progress in my chronic fungal sinus infection but of course it hasn’t gone away completely. My symptoms are a LOT better. Lots of green infected mucus has been coming out in my neti pot rinses. I want my doctor to see just how bad it is and of course I want candida to show up if they do a nasal swab or oral swab or any other tests. So I’m thinking I need to stop everything I’m doing so it can “come back”. How long do you think is long enough? Should I start eating everything NOW, a week in advance or is a few days enough time?

So I've had T in my left ear for about 8 weeks. I woke up with it one morning. I left it about a week and went to the Dr, he said it looked like a mild infection. It looked red and I flamed but it didn't hurt much, popping every now and then. Took the antibiotics. Still ringing after it cleared up. Few weeks later I went to get the wax removed after been advised by the Dr. The ear person at the clinic said she could see what looks to be a white cloud in both ears, meaning mucus is there. Asked how my sinuses were, I said as usual. I've had hayfever since I can remember, very bad hayfever and generally allergic to various things! She recommended taking a steroid spray for a few weeks. Beconase. I left feeling hopeful.
I'm in the UK and now is the time I'd be suffering, I don't even have a sniffle, I can go out on the bike, no itchy eyes, nothing. Hayfever seems to have gone. I still have the ringing and in the last week I feel it's got louder. I've changed nothing. Been taking the nasal spray every morn and night, two sprays.
I don't believe it's noise induced as nothing happened, just woke and it was there. I do wear ear plugs at night and want to try and get out of this but with the ringing still there I'm stubborn in thinking what's the point. I've used them for years when sleeping. I change the buds too. This also started 2 weeks after I got back off holiday, swimming and two flights. Never an issue before.
I live with a farmers field on the doorstep. Haven't been to any gigs. Don't smoke, drink, quite healthy, exercise plenty.
Oh and recently the Dr who last looked at it 1 week ago said it looked like it had some scabbing.
Has anyone experienced something similar? Any recommendations to even reduce the noise. I have a follow up appointment early June, ear woman said she'd check once I'd used the spray for a bit for improvements. Do a hearing test. I've been put on the dreaded ENT wait list already in case it didn't go. I looked into certain suppliments. I don't know whether my ear is taking a while to get back to normal after the infection, maybe it's still slightly tendeinflamed. Who knows!
Thanks for listening

Hi there! I got diagnosed with folliculitis decalvans around 3 years ago. Got a biopsy done of my skin and it looks like its FD 100% since staph. aureus is the faulty bacteria.
Started my journey and tried a lot of things: Consuming no dairy, eating no sugar, drinking no alcohol, taking probiotics, but after months i realized that it doesnt make a difference. So i went over to systemic antibiotics which worked, till i stopped using them. Since I'm quite an enemy of systemic abuse of antibiotics, and didnt want to go all the way to immune suppressors, which have nasty sideeffects, i started my research on reddit and found the well known "long term cure" by putting Clindamycine in rubbing alcohol and applying that for 2 weeks in a row. Worked quite good for me, since i was completely free of symptoms for around 2 months, then i had to reapply the medication. Followed this routine for some months, but i got tired of it, since the flareups came back earlier (around 5 weeks after the last application of the AB), and the constant fear of getting AB resistance didnt make it better.
So i searched for some other solution and i found one which works actually really good (for me). Since im a chemist with a master degree, i got hold of some pure Benzoyl peroxide, which i added to rubbing alcohol (very low solubility, but at least something will disolve). I pour 30 mL of this solution into a little Beaker and add 3 mg of Mometasone (corticosteroid) soluted in propyleneglycol (2mg/mL), which i had at home because of some sinus infection back in December. Every time i feel like my FD starts to flare up (around once a week. sometimes even once every 2 weeks), i apply this mixed solution ONCE at night and go to sleep. I am having no problems with this method since around 2 months. Completely off the AB. Maybe its worth a try!
Extra Information:
I eat sugar and dairy regularly since i noticed that it didnt make a change for my FD. Also i love them so i dont care.
I also started washing my hair with sulfur containing soap, but i dont think that it actually has an impact. Switching between Ocentisan and Sulfuric soap every other day at the moment.
I shower every day in the morning, sometimes i dont shower for 2 days, but very rarely.
I dont change my bed sheets nor my towel every day, i change the bedsheets once every 2 weeks, and the towel every week.
I touch my hair a lot and put in lots of styling products.
Im not sure if its the BPO which works for me or the mometasone. I will try to figure it out in the future, but this one seems for real to be an application which could last for a lifetime, since its really low effort.
Maybe give it a try!

Hello,
im from Germany, 24 years old, male, and have NDPH since March 2020, so more than 4 years now.
For me it began with a long time of sickness, was constant sick with infections, sinusitis, maybe EBV and maybe covid for 5 Month, before the headache started. Are there other people, who also connect their begin of headache to a long time of infections. Had also some stress in that time, but nothing extreme. In the last time I did some research, and at the end NDPH is suggested to be something with the immune system/Nervous system, like a persistent activation/inflammation. Maybe it isn't NDPH at all, but Headache following an infection, which is not a primary but secondary headache type. And if it secondary, the solution would be only a clearance of the initiating event. My pain is moderate mostly (5-6) sometimes with no reason up to 9 for some days. I can live with it, I got used to it. But still I think there MUST be an answer and resolution for that problem. Nothing can happen "just to of the blue". Have also photophobia, it makes me tired and I can't breathe through my right nose wing because of the pain. It blocks something there, a doctor said. Have no mental issues or something in that direction.
Tried some medications, like Amitripylin, Doxepin, Paroxetin, Amineurin and some others. with no effect. Acupuncture, food changes, etc. also didn't helped. Now I take no medicine for 2 years.
I write that here because I search for people who also want to solve that problem and who are interested in an exchange. So if here are other people from Germany or elsewhere, who also have kind of the same begin and suggest their root of headache in infection, I would be happy if we would connect.
i want to try soon some treatments, which have helped some people in papers.
Venlafaxine 3 month
Doxycycline 3 month
Nerve Block
Botox
IV Methylprednisolone 1 week
Ketamin Infusion
famciclovir
CGRP
Has anyone maybe tried some of them out and can tell if something has helped?
Can someone recommend a good headache doctor in Germany?
Has someone other tipps or ideas, what is your story, how long do you have your headache?
Im happy to hear your story, thoughts and ideas...:)
Have a nice day everybody and never lose the hope!

So I've had T in my left ear for about 8 weeks. I woke up with it one morning. I left it about a week and went to the Dr, he said it looked like a mild infection. It looked red and I flamed but it didn't hurt much, popping every now and then. Took the antibiotics. Still ringing after it cleared up. Few weeks later I went to get the wax removed after been advised by the Dr. The ear person at the clinic said she could see what looks to be a white cloud in both ears, meaning mucus is there. Asked how my sinuses were, I said as usual. I've had hayfever since I can remember, very bad hayfever and generally allergic to various things! She recommended taking a steroid spray for a few weeks. Beconase. I left feeling hopeful.
I'm in the UK and now is the time I'd be suffering, I don't even have a sniffle, I can go out on the bike, no itchy eyes, nothing. Hayfever seems to have gone. I still have the ringing and in the last week I feel it's got louder. I've changed nothing. Been taking the nasal spray every morn and night, two sprays.
I don't believe it's noise induced as nothing happened, just woke and it was there. I do wear ear plugs at night and want to try and get out of this but with the ringing still there I'm stubborn in thinking what's the point. I've used them for years when sleeping. I change the buds too. This also started 2 weeks after I got back off holiday, swimming and two flights. Never an issue before.
I live with a farmers field on the doorstep. Haven't been to any gigs. Don't smoke, drink, quite healthy, exercise plenty.
Has anyone experienced something similar? Any recommendations to even reduce the noise. I have a follow up appointment early June, ear woman said she'd check once I'd used the spray for a bit for improvements. Do a hearing test. I've been put on the dreaded ENT wait list already in case it didn't go. I looked into certain suppliments. I don't know whether my ear is taking a while to get back to normal after the infection, maybe it's still slightly tendeinflamed. Who knows!
Thanks for listening

White 21M from US. 4 months ago while on a long plane flight, i experienced prolonged numbness/tingling in my legs. for another week or so this persisted but eventually went away. over the last 4 months, beginning with my feet, constant coldness has spread from my feet all the way up my legs. the feeling varies from just coldness to a feeling of cold water running down my legs. my face is also cold. my feet cramp up when i run for extended periods of time and my hands/arms go numb much more easily than they used to (not constant but needs less pressure / loss of circulation). not sure what kind of doctor to even set up an appointment with.
a couple other things: at first i thought it might be diabetes although im reasonably fit (5 foot 9 ~160 pounds, work out / run regularly). got a glucose monitor online and all readings were normal. just prior to the development of symptoms i had been taking sudafed regularly for a sinus/ear infection. i’m pretty sure i took it for longer than the recommended 7 days.
in short: what kind of doctor should i set up an appointment with? anyone have an idea as to what’s going on? greatly appreciate all of your help.

Long story short - developed an itch 48 hours after intercourse. Also came on my period. The sex was very dry.
Tested negative on full STI panel 2 weeks after contact. Also completed 1 week of doxycycline as a precaution. Developed some light white watery discharge which cleared after fluconazole.
Itch has gone - I did take a second fluconazole after finishing the antibiotics.
Would my tests be considered accurate now since I waited until the 2 week window period for bacterial infections (I know others take longer) or should I test for chlamydia/gonorrhea again in a few weeks? I probably will for peace of mind.
Could the doxycycline give a false negative? I tested the day after completing the course of treatment.
NOTE - I started to experience pelvic pain intermittently (still have it now) after completing antibiotics but no obvious discharge or other UTI symptoms. I do have PCOS so could be cyst pain just unfortunate timing.
Advice appreciated TIA x

Female, 19, white, 115lbs, USA, no pre-existing medical conditions (that I know of), not currently on prescription medication but I do take Flonase(off-brand) daily, problem has been ongoing for a week, maybe a little less.
I’m a little bit of a hypochondriac, so if this post sounds ridiculous I apologize.
For the past week or so, whenever I’m going about my day (relaxing, straining, anything) I’ll get this random rumble in my left ear. It is unintentional and lasts only a few seconds. I can rumble my ears on command, but this is happening involuntarily.
The other day, after this happened, I stretched my neck to the right, and felt something in that left ear pop, which doesn’t usually happen when I do this stretch.
I’m hyper aware of that ear and just tonight I started experiencing minor pain and itching in the ear. I feel like I can feel the inside of it constantly. Part of me thinks it sounds slightly muffled but I’m half-tempted to think it’s my paranoia getting the better of me.
This may be important or it may not be, but for years I’ve had a small lump inside that ear that bleeds if aggravated (although you REALLY have to aggravate it). I assume it’s a mole of some kind that just happened to pop up in an inconvenient spot. I have moles other places so it’s not strange for me.
I also recently discovered a small amount of mold in my wooden bedroom floor (currently treating it), although I cannot fathom how mold would affect just one of my ears and nothing else.
I hope that information was at least semi-helpful…
I would appreciate ideas/theories as to what might be going on. I’m hoping it’s some kind of nasal congestion that’s traveling through my sinuses and affecting my ear or maybe even an ear infection if some sort (although I haven’t been particularly congested or sick lately.)
Thanks all - Cara

I have to wonder since all of my issues started when I had Covid. The worst sinus infection ever began. And antibiotics did not help. 4 rounds of them plus prednisone. Had orbital cellulitis that went away but then ended up with Potts puffy tumor. I have to wonder if covid was responsible.

Hey everyone. Long story short, I’m waiting to see if my current results are a new infection or old infection (I’ve been dealing with this since 2008) last new infection was Nov of last year. Ever had a problem with doxycycline except for upset stomach if didn’t eat something. However in November it felt like it was kil!ing me. Headache. Severe anxiety. Sick to stomach. I said I will never take this again after that course. So who had had successful treatment with amoxicillin? I can take that with no issues. Thanks !

I was prescribed a 7 day course of amoxicillin for a staph infection on my leg. Within 2 days of taking the antibiotics, my supply dropped to almost NOTHING. I am so bummed, I barely produce anything as it is (about 12oz/day) and now I don't know what to do. I used to produce at least 3oz of milk when I'd pump every 2 hours, and now I'm only getting DROPS when I pump. I can't find anything online about amoxicillin affecting breastmilk supply, in fact, I've mostly read that it isn't supposed to affect supply. Has anyone else dealt with this before? Do you think my supply will come back after I'm done with the course? My LO is 4 months and combo fed. I produce just enough to give her 2 bottles of breastmilk/day, and the rest is formula. I guess its not the end of the world if I'm no longer able to pump, however, I was hoping to give her breastmilk until at least 6 months of age. Help please!

I'm at my wits end.
I've been to multiple urgent care specialists, a family doctor, two allergists, and an ENT. I always get conflicting information or dismissed all together, and I feel like I'm slowly getting worse.
For four years, yes FOUR YEARS, I've been told that there's nothing chronic wrong with me. But for four years I've dealt with intermittent ear fullness and vertigo. And when I get a cold, I get really sick! As in I get ear infections and bronchitis on the regular now. Today I was diagnosed, yet again, with an ear infection and bronchitis - my third time in less than two years.
Multiple urgent care and family medicine doctors have said I have chronic fluid behind my ears. I went to an ENT, who saw nothing and performed a vertigo test which was negative. I felt embarrassed and dismissed. I went to an allergist who said I have allergies but was wishy washy on an asthma diagnosis. And he thought my vertigo is allergy related.
How can so many doctors say I simultaneously have a problem and don't have a problem??
It's to the point now that I can't catch a cold without fear that I'll get seriously ill. This time I raced to the urgent care with the very first, faint symptoms. And she confirmed the diagnosis without me telling her this part of my history. The last time I held out and was sick for nearly two solid weeks with a serious infection.
I don't even know where to begin. The urgent care doctor told me to go to a Pulomnologist to confirm asthma.
I'm so frustrated. I never thought I'd be chronically ill. It's made worse because I have an anxiety disorder so I am nervous about standing up for myself at the doctor's.
I feel like I need a chest xray and someone to scan my sinuses. But that's two doctors. I just don't know.

Is it just me that has always something going on or is that the norm?
I'm so exhausted, just mentally drained. I feel like life has been going non-stop and I can't catch a break.
In the past month, I got sick with a sinus infection, our workplace had a crazy bomb threat situation, a week after that we were scheduled to put on this event for work and it never got rescheduled so we did that. I got sick AGAIN and now I'm back at work getting back into putting together another event and trying to support my boyfriend through the loss of one of his family members. Part of my hand has been numb for the past 4 days and at this point, I don't even want to go back to the doctors because it's just going to be another thing to deal with.
I'm so TIRED. Sometimes when I think about life just a bit too much, I start spiraling and then crying. Which is what I just finished doing. I have work in the morning and I dread going in. It's not that I don't like it, I just need a break. I wish I could just pause all of my responsibilities and random shit that keeps happening so I can take time off to go on a vacation instead of spending my PTO being sick.
If you made it this far, thanks for listening to me vent.

I saw an ENT this week and he confirmed what I figured out from Google that everything that has been me feeling horrible since Sept is LPR. A few weeks ago my GI changed me from Omeprazole to Protonix. The ENT said to change from the morning and take it before dinner so it’s working fully at bedtime. He said I’ll probably need sinus surgery down the line but not dangerous right now. That was the only recommendation so far - change the timing. Has that worked for anyone?
Symptoms: -post nasal drip -frequent throat clearing -hoarseness -issues with swallowing (food/pills get stuck) -a sensation of a lump in the throat -dry cough -mucous in the throat -frequent Sinus infections/ Upper respiratory infections - tightness in chest that feels like asthma but oxygen sat is 100%
CT: Acute right maxillary sinusitis Mild chronic right frontal, left sphenoid, and left maxillary sinusitis Mild leftward deviation of nasal septum
Dr Visits: 9/10 - URI - antibiotics 12/22 - URI - antibiotics & cough meds 12/25- unproductive cough, tight breathing - Flovent and steroids 12/29 - throat pain (hurt to swallow), URI, cough - oral lidocaine 1/1- allergic reaction to antibiotics- steroids 3/14 - lost voice 3/16 - COVID 3/31 - URI, ear pain, swollen lymph node in neck, ruptured ear drum - omnicef, Sudafed before flights 4/16 - chronic cough - montelukast, steroid 5/7-current lost voice, sinus infection