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[girlofprey]

Welp, it wasn't any better this morning. If anything it was worse. So we went down to our local hospital. But thankfully, as my mum is a nurse there, we got to sneakily jump the queue a little bit - one of her fellow nurses said we could see one of the doctors quickly, and they'd let us know if there was any point us even waiting around the few hours, possibly, to be seen or whether we'd just get sent away again at the end of that. So we went to speak to a doctor, and he had a quick look at it, and said it didn't look like it was infected or anything, that it was probably just a bit of inflammation. He also didn't seem worried around the lump by my ear, which after closer inspection last night was very like the tender lump on my cheekbone that was a bit swollen too, so probably just all part of the same thing. So he basically said I could wait around to get seen if I wanted antibiotics or something, but otherwise to just take ibuprofen for the swelling, anti-histamines for the itching, and paracetamol if it was painful. So me and mum made a quick pill run to the supermarket, bought all those things and came home. Then realised due to some box or other that they say to check with your doctor before taking ibuprofen if you're on SSRI's, which is the exact medication I am on. Further reading of various pill leaflets convinced us that there was no actual danger to doing that, especially on the low dose I'm on, it just might make one of both of the medications less effective. But mum called the hospital anyway, just to save me worrying, and double-checked with the same doctor, and he said it was fine, and hurrah.

So. I'm on various types of medication now, and hopefully the swelling will go down. It feels a little better already to be honest, which also might be due to the fact that I'm worrying about it less and not making all my muscles tense because of it. Or because since the doctor literally said "don't touch it", I've made a concerted effort to definitely not to. But either way, fingers crossed. I have a weird pain in my neck now, and I'm telling myself nightmare stories about something spreading across my face and getting into my brainstem, but that's not very likely, and frankly it feels more like I have a stiff neck from holding my head still while trying not to itch it, and sleeping in weird positions to try not to lay on it, than anything. So I'm guessing that's probably fine, and maybe related to the eye thing but not necessarily caused by it.

All the pills.

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[breyzyyin]

All the pills indeed. I am so glad that they seem to be working slowly but surely though, and I hope that you will be feeling much better on all fronts soon! ♥