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Owie, that cortizone shot really REALLY hurt. :'( It'll help me though, the last one did. Derm suggests for my next flare-up I do NOT start the levoquin (antibiotic) at all but call up immediately and try to get a quick appointment. If I can't, then email him and he'll get them to squeeze me in. We're thinking wait for now on further Remicade.
I slept most of the night (after having sushi for dinner after a 2-hr nap), and was only restless in the last few hours.
Man, ow. I should go shower. And write a review sheet for exams. And exams themselves. And grade...
ETA: Forgot to mention, I asked about more than OTC painkillers. My thought was that prescription painkillers will probably significantly dull my ability to do things like drive to work, and actually teach, so I probably wouldn't want them unless I were in a situation where I was already missing work due to the pain. Derm replied that most skin conditions do not involve pain, so he's not actually all that familiar with pain management. He suggests if I think it's an issue, I should talk with my general practitioner and get her recommendation. Huh.
Also, it's not actually MRSA, it's just a strain of staph that happens to be resistant to lots of methicillin-like antibiotics. But it's susceptable to levoquin, hence its use. *shrug*
I slept most of the night (after having sushi for dinner after a 2-hr nap), and was only restless in the last few hours.
Man, ow. I should go shower. And write a review sheet for exams. And exams themselves. And grade...
ETA: Forgot to mention, I asked about more than OTC painkillers. My thought was that prescription painkillers will probably significantly dull my ability to do things like drive to work, and actually teach, so I probably wouldn't want them unless I were in a situation where I was already missing work due to the pain. Derm replied that most skin conditions do not involve pain, so he's not actually all that familiar with pain management. He suggests if I think it's an issue, I should talk with my general practitioner and get her recommendation. Huh.
Also, it's not actually MRSA, it's just a strain of staph that happens to be resistant to lots of methicillin-like antibiotics. But it's susceptable to levoquin, hence its use. *shrug*
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You'd also think that it'd be easier to get an appointment in a city that's as riddled with doctors as this one is.
Oh, reminds me I wanted to ad something to the post.
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As for HS being an autoimmune disease, that's how I feel about it, however even in dermatology circles the jury still seems to be out on it. A quick search on PubMed usually has 2/5 of articles on HS being about surgery (treating it as a skin condition only), 1/5 about antibiotics (treating it as bacterial only), 1/5 about its relation to cancer (is cancer considered an autoimmune condition, or is it just cancer?), and 1/5 about using various TNF-alpha blockers (treating it as autoimmune).