Sick Again...

I tell ya, I just don't know what's wrong with me. Sinus congestion big time, I can't breath, I can't sleep at night, just eating makes me feel like I'm running a marathon.

This thing started way back at the beginning of summer. About mid-June I came down with what I thought was a cold. I self-medicated big time since I always have a supply of NyQuil, DayQuil, Sudafed, and Afrin when I'm deployed. It was horrible. No amount of medication would clear me up.

Now, try mountain biking in Hawaii and Guam with a serious head cold, think hot and humid. I might as well have strapped myself to a stretcher and had my boys haul me around, I was slacking so much. God bless these guys because they never once thought about leaving me behind, even going so far as calling me a big poon for even thinking about not going riding. I felt like I was holding them back (which I was) but they wouldn't hear of me not riding and we truly had some epic rides, especially the face plant part in Hawaii, but I don't want to talk about it... let's just say I'm glad we had a Doc as part of our mountain biking group.

This lasted until mid-August when I finally decided to take my Doc buddy up on his offer for some allergy medicine. He finally broke me down and I told him my sob story about how long this had been going on. He didn't know I had been dealing with this since June. He gave me Flo-Nase and Claritin to clear it up.

After about 10 days, I cleared up. It helped being ashore in San Diego for so long as well, having the opportunity to walk around outside frequently and work it out of my system. Being outside probably wasn't the best for allergies but I figured the medicine was working, as well as the frequent exercise. I stopped taking the allergy medicine figuring it was over.

That lasted for about 3 weeks.

About 3 days before coming home for a short 6 day visit I was sick again. I had stopped taking the Claritan and Flo-Nase and figured that was my problem so I started that back up again. And it cleared up after 7 days. At least I had 2 days of relief while home, although the wife wasn't too impressed with my sickness for the first 4 days.

That lasted about a week.

Now I've been sick again for 10 days. And it's worse than before. Every breath is a chore. My head hurts all the time. I'm run down tired no matter how much sleep I get.

I finally broke down and went for real treatment. Now I'm medicating with Amoxycillin and Mucinex for a Sinus Infection. Oh, and Tylenol to help with the headaches.

I hate to think what's next if this doesn't work... if they just had a drill to bore two holes in my head so I can breath...