name the symptoms you have been having

And yeah, I have been having weird, muffled hearing.

Good! I wasn't trying to creep you out, or anything, and a tiny knot under the skin isn't even that horrible of a thing -- but, you know, there's no reason to let stuff get permanently damaged if you can avoid it.

(unless it means I'm going to be GETTING teh smooches)

Hey *I* have mono. *YOU* have mono. *shrug*

it's......SINUSITIS, I think, which apparently does give you fatigue, so says my doc. anyone else ever get crazy sinusitis like this?

I am on antibiotics for 2 weeks and no improvement.

Roxy your symptoms sound like how I felt when I was coming down with mono. Weird back/kidney pain and all...take a look down your throat with a flashlight and if your tonsils are really swollen (is this what the swollen throat feels like?) they have the potential to get much worse. See a doctor!

Michael, did you eventually get cured? Were you also fatigued? My sister is a pharmacist and she tells me some people who thought they had chronic fatigue syndrome have in recent years found out it was sinusitis all along. What antibiotic worked for you? any other tips?

if there is a plus side to being sick for 2 months in summer, it's that I have saved so much money from not going out, I don't know how much cash I waste on booze etc but it seems a gargantuan amount as I have gone completely insane buying clothes/records (2 or 3 every day in work)/dvds/books, and am still somehow way above my usual wealth.

I think we need photos of the marbles.

sinuses blocked every day, big lines under eyes, no energy, weak every day.
it's......SINUSITIS, I think, which apparently does give you fatigue, so says my doc. anyone else ever get crazy sinusitis like this?

Ronan, yes, sinusitis generally is incredibly fatiguing. Ten years ago, I had one really terrible sinus infection (which I let go for a while because I didn't realize what it was and I don't think I even had a doctor at the time). I have had bouts with sinus infections on and off since, though none quite as bad as that initial one. I have very bad allergies to begin with, so I am reluctant to tell you about my ongoing sinus symptoms in this context, since I don't want to suggest you are going to have the same problems.

A couple home remedies:

As an extra treatment, try inhaling the steam from eucalyptus leaves. (Put a towel over your head to help funnel the steam up to your nose--just be carefull if you are doing this over a gas burner.)

Nasal irrigation. If you try that, don't do it until you aren't massively clogged up.

If you don't have any pollen allergies, Goldenseal should be helpful.

I strongly recommend not smoking anything until you feel very recovered.

Wiggy, you're right. Suggesting that Roxy cheat on the no-coffee/alcohol regimen was wrong and bad. I am a hardened hedonist. Don't listen to me.

From what I've read (and my own experience fits with this), if you get repeated sinus infections, your sinuses can get to a point where they are so damaged that it's very hard to avoid more or less constant sinus symptoms of some sort.

I've been inhaling the steam from boiling water alot, and that helps albiet briefly. I didn't use eucalyptus though, I must try that. It's so annoying, for one day last week my sinuses cleared and I felt great and then back again the day after. It's a horrible sickness.

I stopped drinking caffeine last year (because I wanted to get pregnant). Now I crave caffeine and alcohol but mainly because I know I shoudln't drink any. I think I'll have an infuse (?) with caffeine and a dash of rhum right after I delivered my baby. :-)

The list of foods I can't eat is much too long. But I heard from another woman that her gynocologist even prohibited her more foods (like salads and so on). Mine's more relaxed about it.

Ronan, I don't know about Benadryl, but you can certainly buy Zirtek here. I've been taking it for years now for insect bites and so on.

I can see why you'd have to give up caffeine and alcohol, but how on earth would sex mix up your treatment? Weird.

getting a weird taste in my mouth /throat starting to cough and not stopping, unless i consciously stop myself. Then not being able to get my breath back and wheezing like I've got whooping cough, asthma or something.

I mean am I dying or something, since this is happening a couple of times a day at least. Thought it might be a reaction against something(s) in the flat but seems to be hitting me elsewhere now.

Having had flu/cold that i can't shake for ages.

my knees, hips, ankles and elbows feel like they have been clubbed with a tire iron. they really do.

on brain fog as symptomatic of something deleterious on a grander scale

having a thought wriggle away, and attempting to snag it immediately back
(the brain doing a routine thing, a little movement to snatch at the thought, like it has during incalculable distracted moments in the past)
coming up with nil, the mind starting to reach further and more desperately for the thought
mounting conscious obsessive terror about the loss of the thought and the circumstances that lead/are leading to its loss, including this right now
the thought slipping further and further behind an ever-increasing mass of suffocating clouds
repeat more often every day

varicose vein in my right leg at 34. It hurts like fuck and it feels like my leg/foot is going to explode. then it stops for a few weeks but comes back after a while. why? will i die?

Varicose veins aren't usually painful. Is the vein varicose even when it's not painful?

Might be phlebitis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlebitis

for the last 2-3 weeks: waking up early every morning in urgent need of a piss, sometimes in the middle of the night too.

gonna have to go to the doctor's next week i guess. sigh.

my tonsils have been up for a few weeks now, like I'm permanently on the verge of flu. think it's because I've been drinking too much, exercising too little and sleeping in rooms with aircon but it can go away now I'm home thanks.

aside from the concern around the consistent need to do so, periods of early morning/nighttime pissing are so f'ing tiresome.

decent Horizon ep the other night suggested that the effects of steady booze consumption may be akin to low level perma-flu

yeah, I'm reaching an age now where i really notice the beneficial effects of staying off booze more days of the week than not. productivity, clarity of thought, springiness of step, sleep, whatever - it all seems to add up.

so want a cure for this semi-perm hay fever bouts I have been having for the last 3-4 years. Maybe I should drink more idk..

Ha, I went to doctor with lingering coldy symptoms recently and he strongly emphasised drinking less.

But doctors pretty much always emphasise that.

there are no diabetes threads it seems so can anyone calm me down about my big numb toe. i can still move it for the most part, i don't notice it most of the time but it's been like this for a couple months. there just isn't much feeling in the middle of it. there's no tingling.

i have nerve-y problems (disc is out of place i think?) that i just started getting PT for but that's all in my neck/upper back. i took a blood test 6-8 mos ago and i was below prediabetes levels so i haven't been too worried, but i eat a lot of starches and plain old sugar tbh so i'm always a little worried, and now i'm a lot worried.

Diabetic neuropathy won't usually affect one toe in isolation, or cause significant loss of sensation without pain or tingling/burning. It can precede the diagnosis of diabetes but that's not typical.

One numb big toe makes me think sciatica (S1 radiculopathy) but that's usually accompanied by the classic pattern of pain shooting down the back of the thigh. Another option would be neuropathy of the digital nerve to that toe, most likely compressive from tight footwear. In the latter case, if you can figure out what caused it and avoid further compression, it should recover within a couple of months.

Spent much of last weekend pissing out of my arse.