So’s you won’t worry.
I’ve stopped all antibiotic. The Simulasan is providing relief those two don’t and I’m suspicious of them…Tobamycin being a mycin COULD be closer to Neomycin than is safe for me… But the redness persists.
I went off to an appointment with the bank today looking like a mafioso, dark glasses, hat, because I’m out of hair dye—I’ve got to do something about the hair dye for Thursday (eye doc).
We opted to go to a little eatery downtown for lunch—and the hamburger was won-der-ful.
Then I got home and nearly passed out for 3 hours with profound chill. Meat tenderizer. I had it happen in a fancy hotel steak restaurant at that level—I could hardly get back to my room. In this case I wasn’t driving, thank goodness. I don’t know how they can use a product like that without advising you. But that’s exactly what it was. I was semi-conscious all afternoon.
You poor thing! But I had to laugh about the hair dye. Me too. I looked in the mirror yesterday and thought about it for about 15 seconds thinking about a procedure I was having this morning. Then I said forget it. I’m having a colonoscopy, they’re making drink this wretched stuff and they’re most definitely not going to be looking at my head. Sometimes ya just gotta say screw it. Sure hope you feel better! Who in the world would have expected meat tenderizer with hamburger?
Got too many divertucli–last time they tried the first day, woke me up to say, “Go home and do it again. See you tomorrow.”
Me too … although the one I had this year had some new stuff that worked in 1 day.
Then there are those of us who don’t have much hair left to dye, and don’t worry about it. I stopped using the Rogaine years ago, too expensive, and just didn’t feel like it was necessary.
Poor ryanrick, I gotta say I understand what you’re going through, having been subjected to 2 of them in 5 months, plus another “procedure” which required me to drink the same stuff.
CJ, what is it about meat tenderizer that sets you off? Is it the papain or something like MSG? I think the next time you get a chance you should let them know that there ARE people in the world with food allergies, and that while they can’t cover them all, they can at least let you know what’s in the food!
Well, that restaurant is forever off my list. I have no idea what does it: there are a thousand and one ways to render meat non-leather: miracle-in-a-bottle is the one that I just can’t tolerate.
And Ryanrick—good luck!
And I can take a hint. I think a shingles shot is going to take priority over a flu shot this year. I had an unconscious and delirious for days chickenpox event at age 6.
ZOSTAVAX (shingles vaccine) is contraindicated for you, Carolyn:
“You should not get ZOSTAVAX if you are allergic to any of its ingredients, including gelatin or neomycin…”
More specifically, ZOSTAVAX is contraindicated in people who have had an anaphylactic reaction to neomycin.
While to the best of my knowledge you’ve never had an actual anaphylactic reaction to neomycin, no way would I ever recommend ZOSTAVAX for you because of your very significant allergy.
(I’m posting certain health info publicly as I think others will find it helpful for themselves.)
Well, darn, I’m glad you told me that one! Neomycin and I just really, really don’t get along. Scarred the corner of my eye with that stuff: it was so messed up from an eye med that it healed wrong, as if the skin had melted. I’m not anxious to inject it!
I can sympathise, ryanrick. Every 3 years like clockwork for me … colon cancer is in the family.
Hamburgers that require tenderizing; that’s a disturbing thought! I’m guessing MSG, used for seasoning; it tasted good, but it cost you an afternoon of misery. They should be forced to list ingredients, especially known allergens.
Anyway it’s excellent news about your Thursday appointment. And be careful — no dye in the eye!
A shingles shot? Sign me up. I had chicken pox twice as a kid, don’t recall exactly how old I was; 46 now. Don’t want shingles, unless they’re on the roof!
Uh…I hope I never have to take that Fleets stuff or have a colonoscopy. Went through that three times with my grandmother (diverticulitis) and I wouldn’t wish that on anyone. EEK.
LOL, hair dye, no, not Priority when you’re going in for a procedure! (Sympathies.)
CJ, best wishes for your appointment. I sure hope they can clear it up.
Really glad I don’t have food allergies, afaik. — Do have a couple of drug allergies. Don’t want any sulfa drugs, nosirree. And I have no idea why, but twice, Tylenol (with no problem) has given me a rash and flush, so I avoid it entirely now and any doctor looks at me strangely, but I still tell ’em.
They’ve stopped using the Fleet preparation at my G-I doctor’s clinic. Now, it’s polyethylene glycol dissolved in 2 quarts of your choice of Crystal Lite lemonade, or Gatorade (no red dye). You have to drink 8 ounces of this stuff every 15 minutes, and believe me, it is NO fun. My last go-round with this stuff made me really sick. I still have the box of Crystal Lite in my cupboard, and I can’t help but get into a staredown with it. I need to give it to my parents, they drink it, without the polyethylene glycol, of course.
Runs about $180-200 per dose! 😉
Tylenol is far from innocent of allergies. Throat swelling, etc.
It is possible for someone to be allergic to practically anything—the ink in newsprint; one lady was allergic to her husband.
http://onlinenursepractitionerschools.com/20-weird-allergies-that-actually-exist/
Gurk! Yes indeed, one hopes that the eye infection packs its bags soon and is never seen again (no pun intended). Don’t worry about the dye until you are back at 100%.
Please to inform Jane that the ‘cunning plan’ will probably take past Christmas, but it is proceeding! Apologies to Wiishu for the delay, but the little beggar probably is still up to his okole in packages.
Double gurk! on the colonoscopy. DH said that the procedure itself was cake; it was the preparation that was the worst part.
Whatever his okole is, I’m glad he has one! :laugh:
(I get the idea, just couldn’t resist a little humor. Very little humor? 😉 )
When I had my baseline the nurse asked if I wanted to be 1) Aware, 2) Semi-Aware, 3) Out Cold.
I chose option 3, at which point she called over her shoulder “That’ll be one Milk of Amnesia!”
Yeah, like that’s gonna stop anybody from worrying. Hair dye ain’t worth the risk, IMNSHO, says the Chemistry graduate.
HMMM…one wonders, could there be a connection between the hair dye and your eye infection? Let’s hope not, because then you’d have to search for another type of dye, and that might take a while, especially if you’ve found what you like in this one.
WHY? Silver can be very sexy!
that’s terrible – restaurant using short cuts instead of proper good ingredients … and your eyes oh dear, poor CJ.
when I had a foreign body in my eye the eye ointment the nurse gave me made me throw up! can’t remember what it was … of course the dr didn’t understand that all the weeping sent it straight to my stomach, raised eyebrows when I mentioned it ….
About 10 years ago I had surgery, the surgeon wouldn’t release me because I kept vomiting and he didn’t know why. My daughter called (from a thousand miles away) daily, and when I mentioned it she asked what I was taking for pain because she had the same reaction to Percocet. Passed the information on to the doctor, he changed the pain med and sent me home that day.
I’ve heard people say that they love the feeling they get from Percocet. Alas, doesn’t work that way for me.
Percocet is horrible. I cannot take it!
One of the best bits of advice I had from my doctor re: the colonoscopy prep. Treat yourself to a high quality lemon sorbet and eat a little after each drink.
Aspirin, sulfa drugs, penicillin, and codeine…..bad reactions to all. It’s so discouraging when something that is supposed to be healing you and making you feel better is doing the opposite.
On the shingles shot: I asked my doctor about it, since I am not quite yet at the age at which insurance pays. In the course of the next set of blood tests she determined that I am still immune, from which she recommended that I could afford to wait until the insured age for the shot. That might be a good way to triage the need, if blood tests for any purpose are in the immediate future.
I swear, loosing Neomycin as OTC, so that half the world could become sensitive to it, was not the best deregulating move. They put it in everything—here, smear it on your kid. Got in irritation, have some Neomycin…
When that’s the go-to for eye infections.
The hair dye, no, not so likely—besides, it’s overdue, not just applied. What I blame is 2 days solid of driving through smoke to set up the irritation, then doing it all over again in a few days after FenCon. By that last day on the homeward drive, going from Buffalo WY to Spokane, we were really feeling it, and when we got into the stretch around Missoula it was brutal. I got bronchitis, had terrible coughing, which probably spread nasty germs everywhere, and that’s what got to me. Plus the coincidence of being on my last lenses before a refill and being too sick to get to the doc to get my lost prescription sorted out…it was a lot of happenstance, but I’m betting on whatever crud I had, combo of concrud, smoke irritation, and wearing lenses while I was coughing my head off with contagion. Mind, I’m not just allergic to smoke, I’m allergic to trees and some brush; so burning trees are kind of a double whammy.
Totally off topic (“rogue” planet), but of general interest:
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1245/
It probably belongs in one of the “spoiler threads”. I’ll let “Mom” post it where she thinks appropriate.
Yes, just saw this item. I recklessly populated my ‘universe’ with brown dwarf and stray points of mass because, at the time, I didn’t think cosmology research would be breathing down my neck, and it was just what seemed reasonable to me, given the notion of stars forming via nova-shockwaves through interstellar clouds…
And to my not-too-amazed delight, they’re out there.
I’ve often read that the solar system is only quasi-stable, and that planets can be ejected. Presumably they fall out of resonance, but it begs the question of how matter collects and planets can even form outside resonance patterns which continue to confine them.
I continue to believe Bode’s Law is like Wegener’s Hypothesis–there’s a real good reason behind it which we just haven’t discovered yet because of Clarke’s Law.
My “skunk stripe” is showing, but here in small town Arizona, there aren’t many redheads, so I can’t find an auburn or red root touch up this month. I’ve checked in every store in town that stocks hair color touch up. I’m hoping the stores will restock a touch up in a compatible color sometime this month…. I generally love living in a place where I at least recognize most of the people I meet, but a small town does have its drawbacks. I’ll need to get three or four packs when they finally come in so that I have a stock.
Embrace it! Flaunt it! Self-acceptance is much more attractive. 😉
Sometimes Amazon is your friend, for items you can’t get locally, even hair dye. I’d rather mail order than spend shopping trip after shopping trip hunting.
Lol—I’ll tell you, I tried the ‘going silver’ thing—and discovered the only clothes that went with the look were drab or pastel. I’ve worn jewel tones and bright colors all my life, and the grey just made me look tired, no matter my makeup. When the umpteenth individual comes up to you and asks “Are you all right? You look sick…” —it’s time to head for the dye bottle.
I dye the hair and I get: “Gee, you’re looking good.”
Nooo contest. 🙂
CJ…maybe your skin tone with silver hair doesn’t work with bright colors but that’s not the case for everyone. My hair has gone naturally ‘frosty’ and I am totally comfortable with it. I’ve had women come up to me and ask who does ‘my color’. I always get a chuckle over that. My wardrobe is definately not color-deprived but I do admit that pastels look pretty crappy on me. So, sounds like it’s more about skin tone governing our different color choices. My favorite get-up involves olive green forest ranger pants, purple sweater and black fleece vest with silver ‘adornments’. I love color play….even with naturally graying hair.