Tuesday, April 19, 2011

My fever is back, with a vengeance

Started again Friday evening - 100-102F range. At least that's when I measured first, though I'd been feeling uneasy for a couple of days then.

Doctor who'd fixed my dehydration issue a couple of weeks back wasn't in during the weekend; so met him yesterday. This time he seems to be treating for a proper viral infection - with something that seems to be an orally administered cousin of penicillin (I think, though he told me simply that it's an antibiotic).

Two doses so far, of 6 - next one is due 2 hrs from now. So far, the fever goes down so far as Paracetamol is in the system- 4-5 hours after medication; then it returns to its new normal - 101-103F. And appetite is down to zero; guess I'll lose a kilo or two more by the time I'm through.

There won't be another post till my temperature is under control. Sorry.

3 comments:

Arvind Mishra said...

have you got typhoid checked which is very insidious kind of fever with a notoriety of relapsing back !
Anyways take care -wishing you speedy recovery

Tinkoo said...

Thanks, Arvind. This is not typhoid - that was one of the things eliminated in the first round of pathology tests 2 months back.

This seems to be a lingering throat infection that wasn't giving much trouble - so I kept ignoring. Now the things seems to be out of control. At least that seems to be the consensus of my physician & an ENT specialist he referred me to on Monday.

But so far, there has been a lot of guess work. Let's hope it works.

Krishnan said...

Bit concerning. Do take care.