Following my double ear infection the extra antibiotics helped clear the way for thrush. I fought it off (so I thought) and the coating disappeared from my tongue. Soon, however, the pain returned. My mouth felt scorched. Then the throat pain started.
The throat pain started so abruptly I was worried at first that it was strep, but the fever never appeared. I finally took a look at my throat in the mirror and was shocked by what I saw. I had my tonsils removed a couple of years ago, but they would have been real beauties if they were still there!
My throat was covered in blisters, streaked with yellow (not drainage), and spiderwebbed with bright red patches. Strangely the pain was least in the morning and got worse the more I ate and/or talked. With as bad as things looked and quite uncomfortable of course, I went to the doctor today.
The verdict is: viral and/or yeast infection continuing down the throat.
On top of that, my hives are still showing up with any irritation of the skin (dermatographism). So now I'm taking a few large doses of diflucan to balance out the yeast as well as a couple weeks worth of Singulair to try to get my histamine reaction back under control.
The frustrating news of this visit is that between my last visit two weeks ago and this visit my blood pressure has gone up considerably (still normal, but it is usually around 105/70 and was instead 125/85 or something along those lines). My heart rate which has been high was over 120. My weight was up 9 pounds. NINE. After a few days of barely eating because it is painful! I believe this is a result of gastrointestinal laziness. Take a girl with motility issues a muscle relaxer and surprise surprise: things stop moving effectively! So I'm going to work on more walking, more fiber, and hopefully as things get moving again the excess weight and bloating will clear. In the mean time it was a very demotivating doctor's appointment. *sigh*
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