No more Nohist for me!

Dude! My freaking medicine made me so sick yesterday! Ugh! I can’t win for losing around here! So I went to the doctor and found out I had a sinus infection and double ear infection, right? Ok, so she wanted to give me two antibiotics, one oral and one eardrops, and also this super-duper-mega-canon-powered antihistamine. I opted to not get the eardrops, although I’ve since changed my mind on that and have had them called in. I started the other two on Wednesday night. I woke up Thursday pretty darn foggy and icky-feeling. I got the kids off to school and got all my meds in me.

As the day wore on, I not only got extremely foggy/sleepy/exhausted – as most antihistamines do that to a person, but, I also began to feel more sick! More sick?! What?! Yep – my throat was killing me and the pain in my neck – you know the one – from my ear? It was worse, and was joined by pain on the other side of my neck! And then my throat started swelling. It actually became slightly difficult to talk, because, ::GROSSNESS ALERT:: pieces of my throat were getting in the way! Flaps of my throat… ewww! I didn’t have any trouble breathing – yet, I suppose. Eeks!

I called the doc’s and the nurse said I just had a bad reaction and not to take it anymore. I can understand the extreme exhaustion, and I can even understand the swelling throat – that’s a common reaction to things your body doesn’t like. The part that baffles me is how it made my throat more sore and how it made my neck more sore. Weird. I felt so sick yesterday – it was odd – that it was my first full day on meds and I felt so awful.

Oh well – no more Nohist for me. It should be easy to remember – it’s just a double antihistamine – and it’s got a short, little name.

I feel like I’m starting over on getting better. One day, one fine day, I’ll be over this mess. Ugh.