I’ve been terribly sick the past few days and now is the only time I’m able to look at my computer for more than 30 minutes without getting a headache, so here’s an update!
I’m not completely well. Thursday evening I started to feel like I’m about to get sick. I predicted that in my previous post. I thought blogging about it would jinx it lol but now I learned it doesn’t work that way HAHA. My blog isn’t that strong to jinx any upcoming sickness. Oh maybe because I didn’t plan for it haha.
Anyway. Since Thursday night I’ve had fevers, dry cough, headaches, colds, and now sore throat. My sore throat was worst yesterday, glad to say I’m starting to feel better but still watching for my fever.
I’ve been on Tuseran Forte for the most part, taking it every 6 hours. Then when the dry cough transitioned to regular cough after 3 days, I switched to bioflu. It sucks. It really sucks being sick. I’m lying on the bed shivering, praying for sleep to come. I didn’t have a lot of fighting spirit in me, not that I want to die, I just want to be able to sleep peacefully and wake up fine. But most nights I wake up feeling more sick. It was dreadful. My headache lasted for days aaargh.
Anyway, today is a good day. I feel much better, though my throat is still a bit dry and cough is still there, I haven’t had any fevers today so that’s a clear good sign.
I was able to clock in at work though I have to cancel an early meeting because I just couldn’t make it too early. Then my manager asked me if I could talk about our automation updates in our team meeting tonight. I said of course I could. So I checked the slide she has for me and made a script for all the items in there. Unfortunately halfway through the meeting we had to reschedule because of a possible P1 incident that everyone on the team needs to look into. So yey for the delay? I don’t know, I kinda want to get over it already haha #stress.
On the plus side I won 2nd place in the ice breaker we had earlier! Trivia questions are fun, I also learned a lot! 😀
Back to the title!
Here are all the meds I took that helped in my recovery. I didn’t need to go to the ER because my sore throat subsided in a day.
- Tuseran Forte – every 6 hours for fever and dry cough
- Immunpro Ascorbic Acid – I double dosed these days but still got sick. Maybe I was too late?
- Betadine nasal spray – as needed when nose is very clogged
- Kamillosan – when my sore throat kicked in
- Bactidol mouthwash – gargle twice a day (10ml) for 30 seconds, in 10 second intervals
- Bioflu – when the dry cough is over
- Nasatapp tabs – for the ocassional allergic rhinitis attack
I also make myself hot ginger tea with honey because it’s the best thing for the throat and tastes really good. Whenever I’m sick like this I couldn’t drink coffee because it tastes different and glides weirdly on my tongue. Like the texture feels different when I’m sick, I just couldn’t drink it, it makes my mouth dry. So I avoid that and drink tea instead.
I didn’t have a lot of appetite these days and find myself eating only once a day and when I do I almost always want to eat rice and soup. I had Manam’s sinigang twice and something from North Park so we could order soup. I also found myself craving for my mom’s lugaw but I forgot to tell her how sick I was so that’s sad. I could’ve had my sister deliver it to me on the weekend. I would really love to eat her lugaw with fried fish. Hay.
Oh well, hope to recover fully soon! My husband has just been sick so there’s really something going around these days.
Take care!
