I have a long history with these dreaded tablets to the point I am one of the weird people who actually cheer when the doctor says I don't need them. I have ended up in hospital reacting to them, but in the same breath without them I would have been dead two decades ago.
That brief history aside I am back on them thanks to the nasty virus over the festive season. The trouble after a period of 49 courses of antibiotics in 38 months I went cold turkey. You see I was one of the swine flu sufferers that never fully recovered. Now having not been close to a tablet in 17 months my body has taken offence to them. What people don't understand is that the way the tablets work is they don't just attack the infection, but instead the whole of the body's immunity. So having spent months rebuilding, my body is fighting back. End result is my body thinks I am poisoning it and I have spent the last day or so trying to keep food and fluid down, and actually feeling iller than I did before.
Having just about managed a conversation with my beloved GP, I am having to complete the course, because I have so many antibiotics I can't take I dare not risk developing an immunity to another. But after this I face a month of tonics and tablets to rebuild. As from tomorrow I am having to take iron, AC and E vitamins and probably something else to rebuild. I have also been given a list of herbal alternatives to cold and flu medication to try and balance my body.
I know I have a very weakened system anyway from other things including illness and apparently genetics, so even the NHS is thinking there has to be another way to treat me. For the moment though every one has their nose in books working out what works with what and how not to block the medication I am already on.
For now though I am trying to find a cure to sickness that is ruling my life, anyone else for ginger tea?
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