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16/8/10 19:37![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So I might have thrush!
I've been having trouble breathing and swallowing since after the ear infection--two weeks ago I started wheezing like a maniac outside the vet's office and had to be picked up--and I thought it was just a result of the ear infection + hives.
However, after consulting with my mom (a nurse), I think I now have thrush! Wow! I'll get to go to the doctor again this week!
Some of the major causes of thrush are:
- stress (check)
- antibiotic use (check, thanks ear infection)
- steroid use (check, thanks hive medication)
Good god.
I've been having trouble breathing and swallowing since after the ear infection--two weeks ago I started wheezing like a maniac outside the vet's office and had to be picked up--and I thought it was just a result of the ear infection + hives.
However, after consulting with my mom (a nurse), I think I now have thrush! Wow! I'll get to go to the doctor again this week!
Some of the major causes of thrush are:
- stress (check)
- antibiotic use (check, thanks ear infection)
- steroid use (check, thanks hive medication)
Good god.
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17/8/10 14:37 (UTC)2.) I do not think that I have HIV. I get myself tested for that, among other things, at least once a year (plug: as all sexually active people should). From my reading it looks like Candida is something that anyone with a compromised immune system can get, or rather more accurately, that certain drugs and diseases can compromise your system so you develop thrush. Since HIV patients have compromised immune systems, they commonly get thrush. But since people who take oral antibiotics and then steroids may get compromised immune systems as a result of taking those medications, they commonly get thrush.
It is much more plausible that a combination of stress, steroids (oral, for hives), and two different kinds of antibiotics (oral and ointment, for ear infection) caused my compromised immune system, rather than HIV.
If it were something more serious, then my first guess would be Diabetes and my second cancer-- since I am at high risk for either of those due to genetic and environmental factors I would be more inclined to think of those than HIV.
Thanks for the sympathy, though. It is appreciated.
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17/8/10 15:03 (UTC)Awesome. It seemed unlikely, but better to consider it and rule it out than not think about it at all.