I promise myself i'm never gonna take my good health (after i get well this time) for granted. Health is indeed wealth. This what i will do after i get well:
1) Sleep early
With less sleep, our body cant repair itself well and be immunised against the various virus or bacteria
2) Eat warmer stuff
I think virus and bacteria tend to thrive in colder places. so eat when e food is still warm and not let my dinner become cold then i eat.
3) Drink more water
4) Exercise more
I will start a disciplined gym regime!
It has been a long long while since i last blog. now with more people using facebook, i guess it is easier to share photos there with the tagging function. but now i got this explosive urge to key in some inputs before i forget them, even though i am currently not on a very healthy condition.
I have not seen the doctor for a very long time. i wonder if it is working too long hours in an organic fumes saturated lab so much so that bacteria/virus cannot survive near me. usually when i feel feverish, i will just take some paracetemol and then sleep it off, letting my body do its own fighting. other than seeing a doc to get some sleeping pills during my fyp year, i dont remember seeing any docs for any complaints.
BUT last last week on the 14th Aug, i got very bad tonsilitis which caused a bone-aching, 38.9-degree fever. it was so painful and unbearable that i have to visit my family doc downstairs. he gave me a jab on my ass and applied some medication on my tonsils at the back of my throat and gave me anti-bacteria antibiotics (ciproflaxacin) for 5 days plus other drugs for my smaller complaints. i did ask him what caused e disease and about e medicine. but e doc didnt even bother to explain. nonetheless, immediately i felt better but was
poorer by 90 bucks. but i got better so it is ok. but on next fri, just when my antibiotic course was done, my fever came back, so does my tonsilitis, and with a bang! it was much worse than ever. i couldnt take it and went back cos i tot he has my records. again i asked him why but he didnt explain. he did e same thing previously and but changed my antibiotic from anti-bacterial to anti-viral (acyclavir) also the new drugs caused a severe, VERY SEVERE gastric pain in me!! and
he charged me 130 bucks this time.
Now why does he change it? luckily i got my good friend Dr Harvard Lin. he told me he shldnt change e type of antibiotic unless he has a good reason. how does i know if he doesnt even want to say? I also go and read up on tonsilitis. and he didnt tell me diclofenac sodium (for bone aches) and betamethasone (for phlegm) put together will cause gastric pain. and why doesnt he warn me? and why didnt he prescribe gastric pills?
anyway e lesson i have learnt is to trust only yourself, and your friends of course. after i called my doc this morning and told him my fever didnt subside, he said he suspected it is dengue and wanted me to go to his clinic for a blood test and go back again in two days for e results and consultation. huh how much would all that cost? Harvard told me to go get a second opinion. being the scientist me also agreed and i decided to do my blood test at polyclinic instead. although the waiting time can be dumb but it gets things done. i got my blood test results in less than 30 min, found out it is not dengue and deduced i am suffering from bacteria infection from the data. and e doctor prescribed augmentin as suggested by Harvard.
all for just $3.70now i am going to memorize all e drug names and their uses and side effects!!! e point i am trying to make is, take matters into your own hands, even when you are very sick, if not only trust friends and not money-sucking machines..
