Hospitals and Antibiotics Make Ya Sick...Seriously!

It appears that my hospital stay and treatment for PID ended up giving me something new to treat - C. Diff (aka Clostridium difficile, C. difficile colitis).  What a pain in the behind!  Um...literally.  I'm taking new antibiotics now to get rid of the infection caused by the treatment from my other infection...makes sense eh?  Sure doesn't help my trust in the medical community at the moment.

It also makes me want to learn more about natural remedies because if the pharmaceutical treatment for one infection gives you another (and a nasty one at that)...that's just stupid!  If I hadn't figured out what was wrong with me, I wouldn't have needed any weight loss products because the symptoms of C. Diff. make it pretty difficult to enjoy eating anything or retaining any nutrients from what I could eat.  I'd have wasted away. 

It's been one very long month and I am looking forward to the day when I don't feel sick anymore.  It's coming soon.  It has to.

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Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) can be a very serious infection and if you suspect you have it, you need to get to the doctor ASAP.  I was hospitalized with this a couple weeks ago.  It was caused by an overgrowth of regular bacteria found in my body (not an STD which the doctors assumed until the cultures came back proving otherwise).  The antibiotics they gave me in the hospital were not fun but the morphine they gave me for pain gave me a couple hours of bliss.  Ha ha. 

I was released from the hospital after my fever and pain level went down.  Boy was I ripe!  When you can smell yourself, you REALLY need a shower.  The acne was bad too.  When I looked in the mirror for the first time on my 3rd day (day I was released), the zits were horrendous.  How disgusting.  I didn't have chin acne but the nose acne made me look 14 instead of 38. How embarrassing. I wonder how long I had whiteheads around my nose and didn't know it! 

I am on the mend now.  I am not back to 100%.  The pain still comes and goes and I am still on antibiotics.  It will take me longer to get better because I can't take my medication during the day because they make me really sleepy and I have a little one to take care of.  When I take them at bedtime though, boy do they give me a hard night's rest (and leave me real groggy in the morning).

The long-term prognosis is unknown right now.  I may have scarred my reproductive organs up enough to be infertile.  I just don't know the extent of damage yet until more tests are done.

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