PID is Back

I might have to make an early appointment to see my doctor.  It feels like my PID keeps trying to come back.  I started on metronidazole again but after a few days or so, it starts again.  Now that I know what it is, I don't want to wait until it's too late and then hubby is rushing me to the emergency room, worried about speeding without radar detectors.  I don't want it to get that bad that I have to stay in the hospital for three days again.  That well and truly sucked.  We live in a rural area and our choices for medical care are pretty sad.

I would imagine that since my PID was super bad when I first got it, and that it is obviously still there, my chances for being infertile just went up.  My mother-in-law recently talked about wanting twins.  Her other kids are beyond child-bearing age so that just leaves hubby and me to give them to her.  It's not happening (even if I wanted to, which I don't).

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Feeling Awful

I feel truly horrible.  Besides the normal thyroid symptoms, I feel really "off", my throat and lungs feel like crud, my digestive system is screaming bloody murder and has been for a couple weeks.  I think the digestive upset is from all the antibiotics I was on for a month for my pelvic inflammatory disease. 

I bought probiotics yesterday and started taking them, hoping that this will alleviate these awful symptoms.  I don't want to move too far away from the bathroom because I just feel so nauseous and crampy.  I hope it's the antibiotics and that there isn't something else going on with me.  I don't need anything else health-wise at the moment.  I have enough on my plate.  Anything else goes wrong I'm going to need to look into disability insurance; this stuff is really interfering in my life. I really can't handle anything else on my plate right now.

I did have my check-up with my doctor on Friday for my PID and my thyroid.  I'll update on the thyroid stuff a little bit later. 

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Big Day Tomorrow

Tomorrow is the big day.  I go to see my doctor again for my thyroid (and pelvic inflammatory disease).  I printed out blank calendars from April to June and wrote the symptoms and issues I was having around the correct dates to give him a timeline.  Between my thyroid symptoms, temperatures, and pelvic inflammatory disease and hospitalization, there was just too much to remember.  Between my posts here, my cell phone list records, and facebook, I was able to piece it all together pretty accurately.  Technology can be great:)

My memory has totally been blanking out on me the last few days.  I go to do something or tell my kids something and whatever it was I was going to do or say just disappears in my mind.  I can't stand that! 

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I Had Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

I said before I'd tell more about my illness later. Well, it's later.

I was hospitalized due to Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (due to bacterial vaginosis...NOT an STD which the doctors would not believe until the cultures came back proving neither myself nor my husband cheated on each other and gave each other a disease!) after an ER visit had me admitted for fear of abcess and the need for surgery. I was really sick with high fever and extreme pain. They gave me morphine in the ER for pain, then dilaudid (I think that's how it's spelled) once admitted, then Percocet as the pain went down. Apparently, the flu I thought I had with fever for four days a few weeks ago was the start of the infection raging through my reproductive organs until they were screaming at me to get to the hospital.

Unfortunately, the antibiotics (Gentamicin and Clindamycin) they had me on had such bad side effects (dizziness, nausea, ear pain and hallucinations) that I was happy to get off them after 2-1/2 days when I got sent home. Those side effects lingered for several days after but they eventually worked their way out of my system thankfully.  I think it was the Gentamicin that did all that to me. The faces flying at me in my head were bad enough (and the evil grins some of the faces gave me were downright scary) but when the Virgin Mary statue outside my hospital window turned and looked at me several times, I rang for the nurse to get me off the medications!

The I.V. fluids had me so bloated I looked like I needed to find the best weight loss pills but it all came off within the first week of being home thankfully.

I'm still on antibiotics and the pain comes and goes still.  My thyroid meds got off track a bit while I was really sick but I'm trying to take them on schedule now around my antibiotics.

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