I'll try to keep this as short as possible, while giving as much info as is relevant.
Last Christmas I experienced sinusitis for the first time in my 31 yrs. The pain was excruciating & it was the straw that broke the camels back & urged me, after weeks of feeling poorly, to attend my go. I was also diagnosed with a chest infection and influenza on that visit and was prescribed a very strong antibiotic.
A week later, I required yet another strong antibiotic and the symptoms eased, if not disappeared.
In the (almost) year since, i've been prescribed a further 2 rounds of, different, strong antibiotics for the chronic sinusitis but it never 'gets better'.
It's really affecting my whole life and is now really getting me down.
I've tried to explain to my gp but he just says antibiotics only work for 75% of the population & I feel that I need something else from him like a referral to an ENT consultant, as I also have chronic tonsillitis and since becoming pregnant, have been diagnosed with an underactive thyroid, for which I had a thyroxine prescription.
I've not had a great pregnancy & have SPD & anaemia too!
I haven't felt well, at all, in almost one year, with one thing after another & woke up in the early hours of this morning gagging, to find my uvula is swollen, as are the tonsils again, and I just feel so blue.
I feel like a lot of these are connected and believe there must be an underlying something going on.
I don't feel listened to by my gp & I'm just wondering if it's just me feeling ungrateful for what he has done or if there is more that he can/should be offering.
Please offer your thoughts MN's. I feel so down about my general chronic ill health.
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WHAT is wrong with me? Chronically ill, pregnant and feeling like I'll never be 'well' again.
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itsallinmyhead · 21/11/2012 08:58
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