Nothing like being sick to put a damper on your weight loss efforts. I picked up the flu last night that my wife brought home a few days before and I have felt achy all day.
I took my wife to the doctor after she was sick for two days. After all of the testing and prodding, the doctor told here that there wasn’t much to be done other than treat the symptoms. If she would have come in within twenty four hours of the first symptoms she could of had some medicine that would have helped.
This morning, with the encouragement from my wife, I went over to the health clinic to get checked out. I felt a little silly, read not-macho, for going to the doctor when I didn’t really feel that bad. It’s not like I felt like I was on my death bed or anything like that. I started the medicine cocktail going as soon as I got up – Tylenol, then Advil a couple of hours later and have cycled through that combination a couple of times so far today.
During my visit with the doctor today, I received the medicine that my wife would have liked, amantadine. My understanding is that this medicine would cut down the time that I will have the flu. Amyway, I’m feeling pretty good right now, my temperature is down and I don’t feel that achy. I’m under no illusion that I am all better yet. I bet if I cut back on the Tylenol, Advil, amantadine combination I am on, that I won’t feel all that great.
Unlike my wife’s flu experience, I have had a healthy appetite today. I didn’t feel like skipping a meal or “tossing my cookies”. No jello for me either, I have been eating today like any other day. Hopefully, I will get a good night’s sleep and be ready to get up and go early tomorrow.
Let me throw out the caveats here … I’m not a doctor, repeat after me, “I am not a doctor”. Don’t even think of using any of this information I am providing here as a substitute for a professional health care provider. I’m just telling you what is going on in my life right now. It just so happens that I am sick and am taking medicine to deal with my sickness. My preference would be to not take any medicine and just “suck up it” like a man. Well, that type of thinking is what keeps people sick for longer than they need to be. My wife had to a do a bunch of “persuading” to get me to go to the doctor this morning – and I am glad that I did.
[tags]amantadine, tylenol, advil[/tags]
