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You call that a cold, this is a 'cold'!! ....urgh. *flops*
So it's that time of year again for my annual nasty winter cold. It always happens in the weeks before or the weeks after Christmas, which soundly pisses off any temp jobs I might be working at the time. Usually it is generalised by my doctor under an upper respiratory tract infection, and he may or may not give me stuff to relieve it or treat it if the little round of tests indicate so. Throughout the rest of the year I'm usually okay.
This year's began a little differently. I've had a cough since Housemate's birthday, the 16th of December. But unusually, nothing else. No raw throat, no snotty nose, no feeling of 'uuurgh'. Oh well, I thought, bonus!! Christmas came, I visited my parents - now my mother smokes, and prolifically, and like the other thread going (or was going?) about hosts smoking, I just know how and when to avoid the fugue - Christmas went, New Year came and went. Cough still there, not too concerned.
This week, however, I got a lot worse. Tuesday saw a trip to the doctor anyway even though I didn't think it pertinent to bother them over what is usually viral to me, because the night before my heart started pounding for no reason at all. Doc thought panic attack, but heart rate was faster than normal anyway so she suggested I organise an ECG with the nurse to check it out, which is next monday.
After that, well, friday and saturday nights were sleepless, fraught with coughing, and me unable to keep even water down. I take slow-release pills for my epilepsy and I couldn't keep those down either, which prompted a call to NHS Direct, and then onto getting an appointment with an Out-of-hours clinic on Saturday. The doctor at the clinic listened to my chest and prescribed me a week's worth of uberstrong antibiotics. So it's either become a worse URTI or has evolved into something nastier. I was pretty tired by the time Housemate got me to the clinic, so if he said, I didn't catch it.
Thankfully the uberstrongs seem to be working. After this long waffle, what I want to know is, since I don't want this to happen again if it's going to knock me off my feet this badly, if there's anything I can do about it. I'm in the UK if it changes things. Housemate's mum suggested a flu jab next year - would that be a good start?
This year's began a little differently. I've had a cough since Housemate's birthday, the 16th of December. But unusually, nothing else. No raw throat, no snotty nose, no feeling of 'uuurgh'. Oh well, I thought, bonus!! Christmas came, I visited my parents - now my mother smokes, and prolifically, and like the other thread going (or was going?) about hosts smoking, I just know how and when to avoid the fugue - Christmas went, New Year came and went. Cough still there, not too concerned.
This week, however, I got a lot worse. Tuesday saw a trip to the doctor anyway even though I didn't think it pertinent to bother them over what is usually viral to me, because the night before my heart started pounding for no reason at all. Doc thought panic attack, but heart rate was faster than normal anyway so she suggested I organise an ECG with the nurse to check it out, which is next monday.
After that, well, friday and saturday nights were sleepless, fraught with coughing, and me unable to keep even water down. I take slow-release pills for my epilepsy and I couldn't keep those down either, which prompted a call to NHS Direct, and then onto getting an appointment with an Out-of-hours clinic on Saturday. The doctor at the clinic listened to my chest and prescribed me a week's worth of uberstrong antibiotics. So it's either become a worse URTI or has evolved into something nastier. I was pretty tired by the time Housemate got me to the clinic, so if he said, I didn't catch it.
Thankfully the uberstrongs seem to be working. After this long waffle, what I want to know is, since I don't want this to happen again if it's going to knock me off my feet this badly, if there's anything I can do about it. I'm in the UK if it changes things. Housemate's mum suggested a flu jab next year - would that be a good start?
) while the high school courses were the Hep B (2 shots) in Year 8, Meningococcal and DTPa vaccines in Year 9 (done at the same time -.-) and the Gardrasil vaccination in Year 12 (that was given out to ALL the girls in Years 8 and 12 in the first year it was introduced). 
*flops back into pillows*
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