state of the fox update

[fox]

slept eight hours; got up to e-mail professor about rescheduling a meeting currently scheduled for thursday, because that's how wretched i feel; went back to bed for three hours; got up and took a shower and then my temperature.

temperature:  99.4 F/37.5 C.  keep in mind that this is hotter for me than for a lot of people, because i'm starting from about 97.4 rather than 98.6.  so the questions are these:

1.  i haven't drunk anything hot or cold or brushed my teeth or anything yet, because i know that affects the oral temperature reading.  i am, however, about five minutes out of the shower -- will that make the temperature read falsely high?

2.  i know about kids, oddly enough, but not about adults:  at what point do i call the doctor?

[eta:  going to the doctor tomorrow 11:30.  i called to ask if they thought i should come in, but the people answering the phones never know the answer to that question, do they.  still, if he says Rest And Fluids, at least i'll have got out of the house for a bit.  and with that, i am off to buy a humidifier.]

Comments

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

yeah, i'm familiar with the color issues involved with congestion. :-) it's a fun sort of dull brown today, which in my experience prompts the doctors around here to say 'better out than in'. perhaps they require green before they prescribe antibiotics.

man, i've got swollen glands, too, and the other day i had a twinge in my neck that made me panic for just a minute -- last week there was news of some kid who had meningitis! -- until i remembered i've had the vaccine.

[kmg-365.livejournal.com]

it's a fun sort of dull brown today, which in my experience prompts the doctors around here to say 'better out than in'. perhaps they require green before they prescribe antibiotics

Do your doctors over there use leeches and blood letting to cure people?! WTF?

Mucus should be clear. The fact that it is a dull brown indicates that you have a sinus infection. They should prescribe antibiotics (I've been given Z-Pac, which is nice because it's once per day for five days) to clear up the infection. If they let it "run its course," I shudder to think what it could develop into!

Sinus infections are teh suck - I can totally relate to how you are feeling, although I've never had a fever associated with it.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

oh, i know. i have chronic sinus trouble, actually, and relative to other sinus infections this is no problem at all -- in fact my sinuses themselves are not at all inflamed. (oh, i can tell. from the outside.) apparently, the thing is, there can also be color involved in viral infections (and i've heard this from doctors on both sides of the atlantic [g]), in which event antibiotics would obviously be of no use.

it's the fact that i have a fever with this one that makes me unhappy, really. i'll call them before the end of the day today and see if they think i should come in.