"Good news, everyone!"

[mrissa]

After having been injected, inspected, detected, neglected, and selected (but not, one hopes, infected), I am happy to say that I do indeed have a sinus infection.

And the crowd goes wild.

We don't have a guarantee that the sinus infection has caused all my problems all along. But we know I definitely have one, and now I have a prescription to deal with it, and if I don't feel better after the antibiotics, I have a referral to an allergist, because the ENT felt strongly that there are indications at this point that it was otolaryngological, not neurological.

We are all in favor of as many problems as possible being non-neurological.

Comments

[redbird]

Woohoo!

That is indeed good news, not least because it sounds as though what you have is, in fact, curable--whereas most neurological stuff is at best treatable.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

If it turns out to be an allergy, that's not exactly curable, but somewhere better than treatable somehow.

[gwynnega]

Good news indeed. I hope the round of antibiotics clears up all your problems, but if not, it sounds like you have a solid lead on a cure...

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Or something...

[oracne.livejournal.com]

I never thought I would say "yay!" for a sinus infection.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I never thought I would for my own sinus infection. The world is a very strange place.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

That would appear to be a surprisingly... easy target is not exactly what I mean, but straightforward sort of a thing to have been causing such a set of symptoms for so long; glad it also comes with a straightforward angle of attack for getting rid of it, and pretty quick too. At very least it knocks out a variable.

[ckd]

rysmiel said what I wanted to say, except both earlier and better. So ditto.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

Non-neurological is good. We like it when the mrissa is firing on all cylinders.

Did they have a rationale for thinking it was possible the infection caused all your problems?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

A persistent infection can run anybody's energy down, no question. And messing with the sinuses will mess with smell, but not necessarily consistently or predictably. And those are the main things.

Unless you meant problems like being stubborn and having very little sense of proportion, in which case it's probably not the sinus infection.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

Um.

Heh.

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

what Hannah said.

[ellameena.livejournal.com]

Yay, sinus infection! Yay, antibiotics! Go, team!

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Yay green, nasty-smelling pus!

[orbitalmechanic.livejournal.com]

Hey--when my sister had a weird tubal issue she got all kinds of photos. Do you by any chance have any eight-by-ten color glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back explaining about the sinus infection?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Alas, but I left the X-ray film at the clinic, and even that she sort of made circles on in the air but not on the surface.

Probably still a typical case of American blind justice and nothing anybody can do about it.

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, sinus infection.

[pameladean]

Yay! Balloons! Hypoallergenic kittens! New books by your favorite authors! Sinus infection! Whee!

I also deeply love the backup strategy. Neurology intact, YES, that's the ticket.

P.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

You are such a Pamela.

[dendrophilous.livejournal.com]

Yay for the treatable sinus infection! Sounds like it must be the sinus infection from hell, to do all that.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Well, we'll find out if it was the sinus infection that did it or not. Still.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Hey, that sounds promising!

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

Hooray for curable ailments!

(Notice the lack of mockery on my part when you say you have a "sinus infection".)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hey, if you start catching cold right after I have sinus infections, mock away.

[talimena.livejournal.com]

Imagine me stomping on the floor in my crowd of one over here. Way to go, non-neurological!

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear it!

[wilfulcait.livejournal.com]

Yay! Let's hear it for answers!

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

I've never heard so much cheering for a sinus infection before...but it's preferable to many other possibilities, so, well, ...yay!

Sinus infections can linger around and make everything crappy. I hope this was The Answer and all smells stay the same from now on.

[(Anonymous)]

I just finished my dose for a sinus infection. My doctor also thought it might be allergies and I seemed to be having persistant build up, so he gave me a nasal spray to open up my sinuses for a month so they drain well and said that if I start getting the symptoms again, he may try prescribing it for longer. Fortunately, I did have symptoms that pointed to my sinuses right away, namely lots of pain in the sinus spot and halo vision. Who knew painful symptoms could be such a good thing.

I hope everything clears up soon, and I would guess the pain should be gone in a day or two. Take care.

Heathah

[mkille.livejournal.com]

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

But sorry for the poking and, well, the infected sinuses.

[deannahoak.livejournal.com]

That's great news, Mrissa! I hope you feel better ASAP, so you don't have to worry anymore. :)

[katallen.livejournal.com]

I'll keep my fingers crossed that once you get through the antibiotics you can give us the even-better news. Best wishes.

[porphyrin.livejournal.com]

It is ironicalistic that I'm going:

"Oh, *good*. You have a sinus infection? That's fabulous!"

Still. All sorts of energy directed your way from our quadrant, and many hopes that *all* the ENT type symptoms clear up when the infection does.

[everyonesakitty.livejournal.com]

Wonderful news!!! I'm very happy for your... er... sinus infection. :p Here's hoping it goes away quickly and life can return to normal. :)