[Darling one, this post is not about suicide, but about a really bad bout of strep throat. If you found this page because you’re feeling suicidal, please, please, PLEASE call 1-800-SUICIDE now. They understand; you don’t have to be alone.]
I am in so much pain I very nearly can’t stand it.
I’m not exactly a wimp. I mean, I can tolerate me some hurt, people. It’s the UNRELENTING GODDAMNED CONSTANT PAIN that gets to a girl. Every time I swallow, it’s like the whole Universe has entirely dissolved and reformed itself, that’s how much it hurts. It hurts even when I’m not swallowing, which I happen to think is just in bad form all around.
It’s two in the morning! I woke myself up by swallowing – all those spectacular circling stars of horrific pain caught my attention and dragged me up from sleep by my leprous throat. It hurts, it hurts, it hurts. You would have to see the hugeness of my lymph nodes to believe them.
Neither Advil nor gargling with salt water helps.
I’ve only taken a day’s worth of antibiotics, but I have enjoyed no reduction of my symptoms what so ever. I think I’m gonna need me some horse tranquilizer-style antibiotics, because some superfuck somewhere got strep* and couldn’t be bothered to take the entire course of antibiotics prescribed, and therefore unleashed into MY WORLD a strain that’s fucking immune to cephalexin, which used to kill strep!
Fuck you, whoever you are, and I hope your tonsils have fallen out. OUT, I say. OUT!!!
*You should thank your lucky stars that I’m not even going to mention the meat industry. Antibiotics have always worked for me when I needed them, and now they don’t, and I’m in pain, and you’d better believe me when I say that I. AM. PISSED.
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whore.
Wow…what’s with the above comment?
Anywhoodle…have you tried gargling with tea? Regular hot tea? The tannin in the tea will help with the swelling in your throat. Also, get your man to give you a gentle neck massage. Take a hot bath and go back to bed.
Of course, I liked eating sherbet when I had my strep last week. Nice and cooling on my throat but I didn’t have much of a sore throat. And I took all of my antibiotics. Finished the last one yesterday morning.
Feel better, punkin.
Sorry about the strep. When a friend got it the only thing that worked for her was the giant needle full of anti-Bs right in the ass.
I had the exact same thing a couple of weeks ago and I literally cried part of the time it hurt so much! I had taken a couple of rounds of different kinds of antibiotics…..but the thing that really helped get rid of it was a shot of bicillin (sp?) it’s the next generation of penicillin, so if you’re allergic you can’t have it. However, that shot was the just the thing to kill whatever was living in my tonsils. The are a TON of people around town with this crap, so it’s making it’s way around Fairfield!!
Sorry to hear you’re not feeling good and definitely call your doc if you’re still in pain on Wed. There’s no reason to suffer miserably when they have other things to try!
Sorry you are in pain but I’ve been on a search for great blogs to read and you are cool!
I am not a 12 yr old girl.
I write better than this.
Hope I can link to you!
That was not a haiku.
J. called me a whore because he loves me more than life.
I love when people call me punkin!
Shot in the ass?!?! Holy Moses, I hope not.
Welcome aboard, Marci!