After experiencing a lot of pain in my back over the last couple of days i decided to take an early nap yesterday afternoon around 2pm. It wasn’t until i woke up at 3 am i realised i had slept right through despite having pain in both sides of the back. When i lay flat on the bed the pain eases enough for me to drop of to sleep but only if i am laying slightly on my right side. If i try and move to lay completely flat or lay on the left side then i wake and it starts to hurt to much to get back to sleep. This infection is the strangest and scariest thing i have ever got. I thought being diagnosed with CH was a big problems and having to deal with 2 to 8 attacks in a day is a night mare but at least i now know what is going on and there is medication to help me. With the pain in my back that is now spreading to the other side i don’t have a clue what is causing it and is really worrying me all the time. I have tried resting and taking it easy so that the new antibiotics can do their job and hopefully take care of what ever virus it is that is causing me to be so ill.
The doctor seemed to think it was my lung that had the infection in and that was why i was getting pain in my back but i am still not convinced. My breathing is fine and my chest seems clear. Ok i do have a bit of “mucus” on my chest but that is due to me being a smoker. The mucus is only noticeable if i cough really hard to clear my chest and throat and then it is only a little bit so i cant see that causing me any problems of infection. Another thing i have noticed is i don’t get the big pains until after i have taken my morning tablet's. I am starting to wonder if one of the tablets that i am taking is causing something to happen inside me as there is just way too much pain all the time just to be a normal infection. I have had some bad infections in my life but none on the chest or lungs so i don’t know what to expect and everything i am experiencing could just be normal but it doesn’t feel right!
Problem with getting this pain all the time is it keeps setting of my head all the time and after finally finding medication that reduces the attacks all i need now is problems. Especially if it is all the medication i am taking that is causing the problem in the first place, i suppose that is always been a risk from the start. The pain seems to travel from the back through my middle to my stomach. It is the same on both sides of the body except the right hand side is stronger as that is where it started. It has been like this now for 2 weeks and i am on the second lot of antibiotics but it doesn’t seem to be easing it or doing anything to help. I am lost and just don’t know what to do. If i call the doctor again she will tell me i am being silly and worrying for northing it is just an infection. I don't’ want to waste the hospitals time by calling them as they will just tell me to go to my doctor. There isn’t much more i can do.
I have reached a point where something inside my head is telling me this is worst than just an infection and my body is telling me there is something wrong but i keep ignoring the signs and hoping the doctor is right. It could all just be because i am not used to having such a bad infection and that is why it is scaring me so much. But when you are sat there watching TV and you start to spin out and feel dizzy whilst getting stabbing pains in your side and then suddenly you are sick for no reason it scares the living daylights out of you. My tummy feels swollen and everything is hurting and my side is getting stabbing pains once again so i am going to have to stop typing and take a break.
