bep
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Hello everyone,
Some of this you already know, but I will backtrack. It started over a week ago with a sinus infection. On Monday of last week, I was given an antibiotic containing sulfa for the infection. Friday night I started feeling really achy and got a high fever. I also started noticing some itchy spots here and there, but I thought I had just started coming down with the flu. Well, My temp stayed at 103 - 104 all weekend. I decided to get an appointment on Tuesday. My 'spots' turned into a 100% of my body vicious looking rash. The kind that just looks like your blood came up to your skin. Even my earlobes hurt. Well, Monday DH started to wake me up and I wasn't very responsive. He started getting REALLY worried about me (he doesn't worry easily). He told me he was taking me right in to a walk-in clinic. So we all head to the clinic and I told DH to just drop me off and go feed the kids lunch at McD's since I was sure it was going to be a looooong wait. I was shaking really hard and was a bit disoriented. I was rushed right to the back. I felt a little guilty...everyone was looking at me like "why is she so special that she gets in before us?". Anyway, my oxygen level was really low so I was immediately put on oxygen and given a couple shots and monitering gear was strapped on. The doctors were giving each other those 'not good' looks which really wasn't doing me any favors at all. Dr's and nurses were doging in and out of my room. They told me if they couldn't get me stablized in 1 hour that I was going to be taken by ambulance to the hospital. 1 hr later they were doing just that. Once in the ambulance, they were trying to get an IV in me but couldn't because I was extremely swollen. The techs on the ambulance were giving each other secret finger codes...again....not helping me out with that one...a little scary to see.
On the way out of the clinic, a dr asked me DH's cell #. I was so disoriented that I accidentaly gave him my cell #. So after I had been shipped to the hospital, DH came back with the kids from lunch and sat in the clinic waiting room for a long time. Finally he asked someone how things were going with me only to find out that I had been rushed to the hospital. Poor fella was quite worried.
Meanwhile, me at the hospital...They managed to get an IV in me and got a whole pile of dope in my system. They were taking a lot of blood samples too. They said I needed to be admited to the hospital.
So they got me in a room and hooked me up to a heart monitor and kept the drugs pumping. Finally this morning at somewhere around 6am my fever calmed to the normal range and I started feeling somewhat better. I was allowed to be unhooked from all the machines somewhere around 11:30 or so and was able to leave a little later. I have a whole pile of drugs I have to take for a while to get rid of this and if ANYTHING happens I am to run directly to the ER. I am still covered from head to toe in a pretty mean looking rash.
Well, aside from being allergic to Amoxicillan (which I already knew) I now know that I am extremely allergic to any drug containing sulfa. I am going to be triple checking my drugs from now on. I totally didn't realize just how serious a reaction I was having. I shudder to think what would have happened if I would have tried to wait until Tuesday to get into the dr's office. I had mentioned it to one of the docs and they put it in no uncertain terms that I was to have been in the hospital.
So...if anyone starts having these kinds of symptoms, please get to the ER or clinic or something right way. The longer you wait, the more serious it gets. It's pretty serious business.
Anyway...that's what's going on with me. I still have occassional lightheaded moments and not quite up to par, but it is a world of difference from what I was at just yesterday.
Some of this you already know, but I will backtrack. It started over a week ago with a sinus infection. On Monday of last week, I was given an antibiotic containing sulfa for the infection. Friday night I started feeling really achy and got a high fever. I also started noticing some itchy spots here and there, but I thought I had just started coming down with the flu. Well, My temp stayed at 103 - 104 all weekend. I decided to get an appointment on Tuesday. My 'spots' turned into a 100% of my body vicious looking rash. The kind that just looks like your blood came up to your skin. Even my earlobes hurt. Well, Monday DH started to wake me up and I wasn't very responsive. He started getting REALLY worried about me (he doesn't worry easily). He told me he was taking me right in to a walk-in clinic. So we all head to the clinic and I told DH to just drop me off and go feed the kids lunch at McD's since I was sure it was going to be a looooong wait. I was shaking really hard and was a bit disoriented. I was rushed right to the back. I felt a little guilty...everyone was looking at me like "why is she so special that she gets in before us?". Anyway, my oxygen level was really low so I was immediately put on oxygen and given a couple shots and monitering gear was strapped on. The doctors were giving each other those 'not good' looks which really wasn't doing me any favors at all. Dr's and nurses were doging in and out of my room. They told me if they couldn't get me stablized in 1 hour that I was going to be taken by ambulance to the hospital. 1 hr later they were doing just that. Once in the ambulance, they were trying to get an IV in me but couldn't because I was extremely swollen. The techs on the ambulance were giving each other secret finger codes...again....not helping me out with that one...a little scary to see.
On the way out of the clinic, a dr asked me DH's cell #. I was so disoriented that I accidentaly gave him my cell #. So after I had been shipped to the hospital, DH came back with the kids from lunch and sat in the clinic waiting room for a long time. Finally he asked someone how things were going with me only to find out that I had been rushed to the hospital. Poor fella was quite worried.
Meanwhile, me at the hospital...They managed to get an IV in me and got a whole pile of dope in my system. They were taking a lot of blood samples too. They said I needed to be admited to the hospital.
So they got me in a room and hooked me up to a heart monitor and kept the drugs pumping. Finally this morning at somewhere around 6am my fever calmed to the normal range and I started feeling somewhat better. I was allowed to be unhooked from all the machines somewhere around 11:30 or so and was able to leave a little later. I have a whole pile of drugs I have to take for a while to get rid of this and if ANYTHING happens I am to run directly to the ER. I am still covered from head to toe in a pretty mean looking rash.
Well, aside from being allergic to Amoxicillan (which I already knew) I now know that I am extremely allergic to any drug containing sulfa. I am going to be triple checking my drugs from now on. I totally didn't realize just how serious a reaction I was having. I shudder to think what would have happened if I would have tried to wait until Tuesday to get into the dr's office. I had mentioned it to one of the docs and they put it in no uncertain terms that I was to have been in the hospital.
So...if anyone starts having these kinds of symptoms, please get to the ER or clinic or something right way. The longer you wait, the more serious it gets. It's pretty serious business.
Anyway...that's what's going on with me. I still have occassional lightheaded moments and not quite up to par, but it is a world of difference from what I was at just yesterday.
I'm so glad you're okay, and they discovered what was wrong!