Last week I mentioned on this blog that I had a headache that had lasted three days. Well, now that headache is going on Day Seven. It's not pounding like it was last week, but the sinus pressure is still there, especially in my ears where the pressure is accompanied by sharp, shooting pains and swelling. The Q-tip that I used to clean my ears with this morning wouldn't even go in my left ear as smoothly as it went in the right one.My mom kept trying to get me to let her put $10 in the bank this morning so that I could have some money to get something to eat with should I decide that I did not want what was in the fridge. As of 9 a.m. this morning, I only had $ .46 in my account. I kept telling her that it wasn't necessary and that I could wait until my PayPal transfer posted later in the week. After all, between the headache and the earache, I don't even want to see food, let alone eat it. It wasn't until she reminded me that Veteran's Day is tomorrow and that the banks would be closed--since when does a federal holiday fall on a Tuesday--that I finally relented. Unless I wake up tomorrow and find that the pain disappeared while I was in the middle of a R.E.M. cycle, I doubt that I will actually drive somewhere and use it, but, hey, at least it's there.
I think what I need worse than a combo meal from Burger King is a round of antibiotics. However, given my history with antibiotics--I once spent six weeks in ICU with pseudomembranous/antibiotic-associated colitis from taking amoxicillin--I highly doubt that any doctor or physician's assistant will give me that round. They'll just tell me what they always tell me; I need to let my immune system handle it. The problem is my ears have been like this on and off again for months now. Obviously, my immune system doesn't know how to handle it, but I doubt anyone at Urgent Care will believe me.
I guess that means I'm going to have to spend some quality time on the Internet, seeing if there's some great homeopathic remedy out there that I haven't tried. If you're reading this post and know of one, please leave a comment and let me know what it is. Right now, Similason's Homeopathic Earache Relief and Claritin D 12 Hour are doing very little to alleviate my sinus misery, and I'm actually considering using the dogs' Zymox in my ear. If it works for Bella and Bailey, I don't know why it can't work for me.
