http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/tags/boils Why are we talking about this!! Zits!! Arghh!!!!! en-US Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:29:29 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/search.php http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/topic/boils-got-me-down#post-4733 Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:24:46 +0000 datentime 4733@http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/ <p>@eeuuurgh, sometimes it is fun to go slumming in the ol sweatpants! Especially if it is raining or snowing. Any ways, keep us posted on what the Dr. tells you tomorrow. I hope all goes well. :) </p> http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/topic/boils-got-me-down#post-4716 Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:01:17 +0000 snapcracklepop 4716@http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/ <p>If you have a bathtub, you might want to try soaking in it a couple of times a day. Maybe even add some epsom salts to the water. Sometimes warm, salty water helps draw boils out. I hope you feel better and your doctor has some answers for you. If he doesn't, try going to a different doctor. Feel better soon! </p> http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/topic/boils-got-me-down#post-4709 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 22:08:36 +0000 eeuuurgh 4709@http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/ <p>Thanks datentime! I was feeling pretty shitty yesterday. </p> <p>I have an appointment with the doc on Tuesday and this time I'm not leaving until they test me for staph. The pain has subsided for the most part but another popped up today. I'll be slumming it in sweatpants this weekend! </p> <p>I wish these nasty boogers would crop up on my arm or leg or even my bum. Lol, what good is a boil if it can't go on PTZ!? </p> http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/topic/boils-got-me-down#post-4706 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:18:56 +0000 datentime 4706@http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/ <p>@eeuuurgh...I am so sorry to hear about your boils. They must be very painful especially the area they are in. Then to have something rubbing against one after popping. Ouch :( Have you been to the Dr. for some help? Maybe put some gauze over them so they don't rub against any of your clothing. I can't imagine the pain you are going through. I really wish you the best. </p> http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/topic/boils-got-me-down#post-4700 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 02:20:53 +0000 eeuuurgh 4700@http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/ <p>My never ending saga with bloody, evil boils has jumped into overdrive. Nine erupted in the last three days. </p> <p>Most of them are in my groin. They hurt. It's like a stabbing, burning, searing pain. One of them spontaneously burst--so now I have a creepy hole in my flesh where my belt rubs. Another boil popped. But there was so much blood, I couldn't squeeze all the pus out. Most of the others have shrunk into dark, pea-sized nodes. </p> <p>I'm so tired of this. </p> http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/topic/from-inside-the-bubble-pus-as-a-personal-friend/page/2#post-2155 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:48:03 +0000 lilzitgitter 2155@http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/ <p>Hello everyone,</p> <p>Happy thirsty for a hunk a junk to come splurting out of the best possible videos fellowship of compadres!</p> <p>Well, after another weekend of nothing changing, we went by the doctor's again thinking that dreaded "H" word would come into play, even packed me favorite pillow.</p> <p>Come away, come away with me -- I was so glad no hospital again. Just another 10 days of the wonder-drug Augmentin.</p> <p>Hello everyone,</p> <p>I'm in my own personal version of Ground Hog's Day - the movie. Repeating the process, over and over again, till my lil z body gets it right, I guess.</p> <p>lil z<br /> loads of luck to ya! </p> http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/topic/from-inside-the-bubble-pus-as-a-personal-friend#post-2111 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:02:17 +0000 Anonymous 2111@http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/ <p>Hey Darlin. Sure hate that, I was sure the Augmentin would do the job. Thank god there are a variety of txtments. for most ailments. Please keep us updated, when you get any info. I know it's difficult to have patience at times. Remember, in quoting the great physician "this to, shall pass. You'll never have a load you are unable to carry". Karyn, I hate to say it, but you have alot of strength, you might think your load is about to break your back!! I'm with you in prayer, your friend. P. </p> http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/topic/from-inside-the-bubble-pus-as-a-personal-friend#post-2107 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:23:26 +0000 Anonymous 2107@http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/ <p>LOL LOL LOL Prof, our airline ran out of fuel, the pilot got drunk while messin' around on his laptop, and they lost our luggage. Hang on. We'll get there one of these days... </p> http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/topic/from-inside-the-bubble-pus-as-a-personal-friend#post-2101 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:14:40 +0000 Anonymous 2101@http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/ <p>okay. so i have been sittin' here, in scotland, all by my bonnie lonesome. when are you reprobates gonna get here? just throw the antibiotics in a bag, hop a plane, what.ev.er... </p> http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/topic/from-inside-the-bubble-pus-as-a-personal-friend#post-2099 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:13:09 +0000 jollypopper 2099@http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/ <p>First off, my heart goes out to you lilz. I glad to hear that healing has started and hope that it continues without the dreaded "H" visit. </p> <p>One of the easiest things to forget about on this site is what happens before and after the few seconds or few minutes of vids we so love. I have to say, this whole thread had me glued to the screen more so than any vid or pic posted on here. </p> <p>I'm fairly new to the site and very new to the forum, but I do love the family network of kindness and concern that I've witness here. I want to thank you lilz with sharing this very personal and painful experience with us. I also want to thank all the other ptz family that was so caring and considerate to offer such beneficial information and support. </p> <p>Also to note, I've been reading a few articles of late that mention it is common for most medications to have on average at least 30% success rate with placebo testing. It really astounds me that 1/3 of the time fake pills could perform the same effect. This is disturbing to me that we would be so often fed these meds with various filler chemicals and such. This by no means, does not mean we are not in need of treatment, I just question most doctors hastiness to prescribe. I do not suffer from chronic pain currently, but I do so wish there was a better alternative for people that do. My heart goes out to everybody in pain.</p> <p>-jp </p> http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/topic/from-inside-the-bubble-pus-as-a-personal-friend#post-2098 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:03:20 +0000 lilzitgitter 2098@http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/ <p>Actually the antibiotics are gone tomorrow and the gooey ooze of pus that would normally make me go 'ahhhh' if I were watching a video has instead made me a bit concerned. It's still a very active infection and I foresee a night or two in a hospital in the near future. I'm okay with that. I spent about 200 days in the hospital the first year of marriage. Since my husband and family kept me anyway after all that mess, I guess they'll want me around a wee bit longer too, ppm. </p> <p>Traveling ranks the highest on my "Bucket List" (If you haven't seen the movie with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman do. It's beatiful.) I also think that song Tim McGraw had out a year ago or so "Live Like You Were Dying" - Chorus printed here - </p> <p>I went skydiving<br /> I went rocky mountain climbing<br /> I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chew<br /> And I loved deeper<br /> And I spoke sweeter<br /> And I gave forgiveness I'd been denyin'<br /> And he said some day I hope you get the chance<br /> To live like you were dyin' </p> <p>Whatever the outcome, day by day, I do think we often forget to find the best life has to offer, and it's only when we have weird little setbacks like strange little pus ear infections that seem like nothing and end up getting 2 doctors a nurse and a PA in the office before the visit was over, to offer opinions, and not one of their opinions matched my own thinking it was nothing.</p> <p>So if I do go in the hospital, I'll embrace the days and try to rest. It is indeed tough to rest well in a home with teen sons, but it is also hard to rest in a hospital. I'll take it one breath at a time, and soon be back to catch up on all the goo that other people share with us.</p> <p>Delighted by the moment, leaving the future alone for it's time will come on its own...<br /> lil z </p> http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/topic/from-inside-the-bubble-pus-as-a-personal-friend#post-2094 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:54:53 +0000 Anonymous 2094@http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/ <p>I would love to go to Scotland with you but I don't think either of us is in the shape to handle the overseas flight! How are you doing? Is your dangerous infection gone? I surely hope so! I would hate to see your beautiful soul gone from this world. </p> http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/topic/from-inside-the-bubble-pus-as-a-personal-friend#post-2069 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:04:03 +0000 lilzitgitter 2069@http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/ <p>Let's go to Scotland togeter? I love Celtic Women I've heard them sing it with a thick Irish brogue. Wonderful that - dreams. I want to travel sooo badly. I spent the years between 23 and 25 on iv antibiotics a lot, and I will take the helm as Princess of Antibiotics.</p> <p>I have had the dickens of a time trying to eat healthily while on this huge dosing. Soft puddings, applesauce and the like. I feel like I'm a little child and I have to watch the choo choo go into the tunnel. I'm fussy when food doesn't settle well. </p> <p>So... you'll take the high road and I'll take the low road...</p> <p>Karyn aka lil z </p> http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/topic/from-inside-the-bubble-pus-as-a-personal-friend#post-2064 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:53:27 +0000 Anonymous 2064@http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/ <p>i'm glad you're better, lil z.</p> <p>it must have been your astral influence -- i joined the augmentin bandwagon friday! i am the Queen of Antibiotics, having spent 45 weeks over the past year on i.v. abx. but i have to say, the augmentin seems to be kicking in, for which i am most grateful. i woke coughing up blood friday, scared the bejezus out of me...</p> <p>so... you finish yours, and i'll finish mine (and i'll get to scotland before ye?)... </p> http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/topic/from-inside-the-bubble-pus-as-a-personal-friend#post-2063 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:24:23 +0000 kat 2063@http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/ <p>my psoriasis is only worse in the cold cos i have to wear so many clothes i think-usually improves in the summer.i have been on steroids forever,but am seeing new dermatologist tomorrow and hoping for some improvement.<br /> it makes me very self concious as it is head to toe<br /> but i also have psoritic arthritis in my feet which makes walking difficult and is worsened by the cold and wet<br /> thanks for any advice </p> http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/topic/from-inside-the-bubble-pus-as-a-personal-friend#post-2062 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:20:48 +0000 lilzitgitter 2062@http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/ <p>Good morning!</p> <p>I have appreciated every insight. I think that medical professionals do a lot (thank you for being one of those special people MotherE!) but they don't always know the exact dynamics for instance of drugs that counterbalance one another, like antibiotics will be easily compromised if you drink grapefruit juice, and that's an easy one compared to the other ways chemicals and chemical dependency can change when varied drugs are blended, and then each person has their own threshhold for pain, for medications themselves, and then each chemistry nakeup for individuals ... </p> <p>Celebrex - first med attempt to control pain - bzzzt<br /> Neurontin - second med attempt to control pain - bzzzt<br /> Lyrica - third...<br /> Narcotic low oral dosings...<br /> Opiate patch...</p> <p>I don't know what's next. I'm very stubborn and go a long long time before I yield to the pain and go back to the doctor and say - okay this isn't working so well. This then (the above mentioned drugs) are encountered over a period of almost 8 years now. I've only upped the dosing on the patch 1 time and I've been using it almost 2 years. I'll definitely look into Lyrica and see if it is the primary cause of the little hard knot things that look pimple-ish. I see the doctor again next week, Thurs I think.</p> <p>Doctors!!<br /> Whee... not. LOL</p> <p>Take care and again so many thanks. This support overwhelms me in that warm fuzzy Ha**mark card sort of way.</p> <p>Here's zits and pus and ooze to each of you,<br /> lil z </p> http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/topic/from-inside-the-bubble-pus-as-a-personal-friend#post-2060 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:10:23 +0000 Anonymous 2060@http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/ <p>Steroids are such a horrible txment. Can be dangerous Kat. Be careful OK You seem like a smart one..Just you know sometimes those old medicos don't have all the right answers! Im a firm believer in getting 2ond and sometimes 3rd and 4th opinions! Poor thing , it has a tendency to be worse in the cold, doesn't it? Do be careful ! If I can ever help.. Just ask. </p> http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/topic/from-inside-the-bubble-pus-as-a-personal-friend#post-2049 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:15:22 +0000 kat 2049@http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/ <p>problem is psoriasis is caused by cells producing too quickly<br /> treatments are usually steroids...i am currently awaiting a dermatology appointment as they no longer work for me </p> http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/topic/from-inside-the-bubble-pus-as-a-personal-friend#post-2048 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:03:14 +0000 Anonymous 2048@http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/ <p>yesssir bob, very very drying and believe it or not, that's where most dermaissues begin, with poor hydration. Skin is an organ, it must be kept hydrated... one of the 1000 rules of basic good health,!!! </p> http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/topic/from-inside-the-bubble-pus-as-a-personal-friend#post-2027 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:24:03 +0000 jumbob 2027@http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/ <p>You're right mother-e, neurontin it is. Plus neurontin is generic, and insurance companies love it as opposed to the Brand-name Lyrica.</p> <p>Kat, I've never heard of long-term opiate use related to any skin condition. </p> http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/topic/from-inside-the-bubble-pus-as-a-personal-friend#post-2025 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:13:33 +0000 kat 2025@http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/ <p>this is something i never knew about<br /> is it possible that my use of opiate pain meds could be making my psoriasis worse? </p> http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/topic/from-inside-the-bubble-pus-as-a-personal-friend#post-2022 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:33:57 +0000 Anonymous 2022@http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/ <p>I think neurontin is a better choice anyway bob. Many opiates and others cause breakouts it has alot to do with the carrier, my mosbeys states that all opiates have a possibility of dermareactions but hey! If a pill would make a monkey fart a tune Mosbeys would have to list it as a side effect! So many lawsuits! I think mosbey's is more through then a pdr.. there is a wonderful non narcotic pain med I'm trying to think of, it was black boxed for some time oh yes, celebrex.. You realize I can't tell anyone to take a pill or even suggest it, practiing beyond a nurses scope and that kinda bullshit, but if your physician is not against celebrex, ya may want to mention it, in combo with neurontin and other such meds It has been found to be somewhat effetive. </p> http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/topic/from-inside-the-bubble-pus-as-a-personal-friend#post-2018 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:41:25 +0000 jumbob 2018@http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/ <p>Lilzitgitter, I noticed in one of your posts that you were stymied about what might be causing some pus-less zit breakouts. Are they like little sores, but with no head and no apparent source of the eruption? If so, maybe I can help a little. </p> <p>I assume from what you've written that you have a significant chronic pain issue and as a result are on long-term use of prescription opiates. I'm not aware of opiates causing these little skin lesions, but there is another drug sometimes given in combination with opiates that might be the cause. I don't know the nature of your pain, but I do know that often with peripheral neuropathy and/or "nerve pain" symptoms, doctors will prescribe Lyrica. If you are on this, it could be the source of these lesions. I was prescribed Lyrica a year or so ago, and after a month or so, I was breaking out in these little headless eruptions at virtually anyplace on my skin. My pharmacist didn't know anything about it, but I tracked it down myself and discovered Lyrica can indeed cause these breakouts in some persons. So I switched to gabapentin, and no further problems. Hope this can help. </p> http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/topic/from-inside-the-bubble-pus-as-a-personal-friend#post-2014 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:36:52 +0000 Anonymous 2014@http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/ <p>How sweet you are, I do care about my brothers and sisters on this site and feel pain when we loose them for what ever reason. Some have disagreed with me wholehartedly, but thats ok, would be very boring if everyone thought the same way. i only tell truths.<br /> You have a lot of hidden factors being adopted,I suppose you"ll never know. Unless you choose to go on an investigation. You're so right about meds. mostly the "carrier" in any being tylenol asa. or caffeine! The fda doesn't like us looking into homeopathic remedies because their teat child the drug manufacturers can't make multi billion and trillions of dollars. Looks like you've done your homework! Good Job! We </p> <p>are a country of take a pill and cure us though, we have to redirect or thinking about somethings..<br /> There are alot of factors and I know you know this to be true, when we think about maladies, we have to consider age,heredity, meds and environmental factors are the easiest to figure in. You're doing great Karen, keep on hanging in.<br /> btw I miss halph staph,but I know she's ok. (I thought she was a boy for some time!) I have been missing Innafittoften or Inna terribly, she's ok too I guess, lotsa love to her though. she has a big tender heart, hope you don't mind honey..<br /> The season to be Ill is here, lets get through it again!! Lotsa cryin moaning and groaning but we get through it, thats whyI love our weird fetished familY!! </p> http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/topic/from-inside-the-bubble-pus-as-a-personal-friend#post-2013 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:05:39 +0000 lilzitgitter 2013@http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/ <p>Hello friends,</p> <p>Again thank you for sounding in on this topic. I didn't get admitted to the hospital. I'm seen by an internist who's office is an annex of the Sumter (teeny tiny town in SC) hospital. I saw the PA then the PHD and both said, "We almost always put people in the hospital when it looks like... " and I begged and pleaded. "Let me try the option for oral antibiotics. I was so relieved. I know about (-2) - as in less than two hehehehe people who like hospitals. Most tolerate, some avoid (like me) and others have fears of them (like me and dentists ugh!)</p> <p>Mother E</p> <p>You asked if I knew the area and the outbreaks of boils or other skin irritations in my community and I have to say as a basic answer, 'No." </p> <p>The elongated answer might get complicated, since I'm on legal drugs - but remember the campaign about an egg, a frying pan, and the host shows you, "This is your brain," holding up egg... host speaks again, "This is your brain on drugs" and while talking, the egg is cracked and sizzles into the frying pan. The medication cocktail creates a wall separating me from intense pain. Praise the Creator!</p> <p>When I was born, I was adopted almost immediately and all my records sealed. It was a time period when adoptions were closed, not like this day and time where everyone stays in touch, so even if I needed a bone marrow transplant from a potential sibling, I don't even know if I have a sibling, so when the paperwork asks about family history, I line diagonally across and write on the line, "Adopted."</p> <p>Both my sons have had cysts that come out looking like rocks you would put in the bowl before water and goldfish. They were black or dark green with spots. Both children. I've had two like that as well. I have to assume that particular type of cyst is hereditary. Then my sons went through the natural teen phase with pimples. They really only had one or two heart stopping let me pop that now pimples each. One stayed on my elder son for over a month, he and his father defending it's poppage with the comment, "If you leave it alone, it will go away." Ha! It didn't. When the weeks had passed and pictures for school were nearing, I finally had a go at it. It was a bridge of nose pimple and oh my gracious, the best one he ever had. LOL </p> <p>Now back to the question you posed regarding the boils repeating or area influences. I'll share the second part of that sentence first then the other second, because I'm a little crazy? Insane! LOL No clue about boils in the area. We moved from a big city to a tiny town and we've been here exactly 1 year. **Andddddd after having our house on the market since November 2, 2008, we are closing on it November 10th 2009... wowsa wowsa and hurrah and stuff! I am clueless about the world out my window. I just can't get out much with my health issues.</p> <p>I've had four doctors tell me that the things on my body that begin as small heads that make you think "zit" or "pimple" but feel like solid nail heads to the touch are places on my skin that my body deemed fit to expel the poisons in the medications. </p> <p>Most people don't realize that though medication is used to heal them, the medications all have ingredients included by pharmaceutical companies to make the medications shelf life lengthen, make it more active to combat disease and hundreds of other additives for various reasons which are all in part poison. Very little medication in our arsenal in US and Europe comes from laboratory environments that rarely use plants or other natural substances. It's all human created and as I said, we're grateful for the good they do but often unaware of the long term potential harm. </p> <p>In my case, as soon as I began taking opiates in 2002 and immediately began these odd little breakouts. I continued to have acne as well, but I could always tell the difference between the two. Acne on my skin really does go away almost overnight. Good soap and water and a good night's rest, and voila. These small knots stay for days or weeks and once in a while they grow.</p> <p>When the knot behind my ear began it hurt almost immediately because I lay on my side at night. I knew something was tender there. Otherwise, when they first appear elsewhere on my skin, they don't hurt or affect me at all except for the fact that it always looks like I have chicken pox! I just got lucky that my ear hosted this one in the small valley between lobe and neck. Then it grew and affected my earring hole, and progressed up behind my ear and well down into my right jaw and lymphnodes overnight. I knew it was beyond unusual at that point. I'd already scheduled an appointment for something else but showed the doctor the pustule on my ear and she changed gears immediately.</p> <p>I thought I had 7 days of antibiotics but looked today and redid my math with my fried egg brain LOL... and realized I have 10 days. I'm sooo hopeful that it heals completely by then. Right now it isn't, but I've taken less than half the total dosing I have, so there is hope!</p> <p>Your name fits you MotherE. You make a great matriarchal figure for this site. Emil the Patriarchal figure and if HS were a relative, I think he'd be a crazy Uncle. I'll be a kissing cousin. It would be fun to see who/what others would say on that topic, but I'm not going to start a new thread for it. It's not really on target for this site. Just me rambling. I did warn you all though.</p> <p>I don't smoke, never did, never will. When I was 12 I was hauled halfway cross country by my mother, alone with just her, to clean my late grandparents (her parents) house. The house was a nice place but the walls were literally brownish yellow all because of the smoking that had occurred there for 29 years. It lingered in the air and made me feel ill. It was an unpleasant task, but also a very effective tool that convinced me I couldn't do that. I figured if it upset my stomach when I was breathing it in long after the fact of it actually being puffed into the air, then it would gag me horridly if I did it to myself.</p> <p>Dreams - A topic that is fascinating on its own as well. I'll be short and sweet on this one. Maybe... hehehe. I don't know how to stop them. If anyone knows a method for dousing the potentiality of negative dreams, please share. If you feel like it's not suitable for the primary purpose of this forum, send me a personal message. I'd be grateful. And yes, when it gets really bad, I do prop up on several pillows. I appreciate the advice and the warmth expressed in everyone's ideas and suggestions.</p> <p>My best, blessings to all<br /> lil z </p> http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/topic/from-inside-the-bubble-pus-as-a-personal-friend#post-2012 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:25:50 +0000 Anonymous 2012@http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/ <p>I am also of late sleeping in a recliner we have moved to my bed room. I have never since I was a smoker battled such a tough bronchitis. I stopped smoking 5yrs. ago because it was becoming a chronic condition. This I have had of late will not let me walk more than 5 mins. not at any pace I might add. without having to stop and focus on my breathing. It's really bad, Im on my 2ond. z-pack along with updrafts q6hr. and prn. not well yet but better. Just got back to work. </p> http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/topic/from-inside-the-bubble-pus-as-a-personal-friend#post-2010 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:29:30 +0000 kat 2010@http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/ <p>i have to sleep in an upright position too<br /> it takes a bit of getting used to but is much more comfortable in terms of breathing<br /> those big 'wedge' pillows can help </p> http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/topic/from-inside-the-bubble-pus-as-a-personal-friend#post-2007 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:17:57 +0000 Anonymous 2007@http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/ <p>Oh Karen, You did well, My twins are about to turn 17 boy and girl.. The girl has a clear complexion, the boy, not, I can feel ya! Is there issues with folks getting boils around you? i.e. in your neighborhood? Where do ya live? Have they ever had water issues? When I was in the clinics, there came to us a slew of boils for a time, the area was 20sq. miles all the pts. lived. Turned out that there was contamination in the wells. I say this not to frighten you, but at times, these things really do break out!<br /> Sitting up in bed is better when your lungs are compromised, it's a horrible thing to lay flat and have that mothering sensation. I have been batteling bronchitis as well. You will be fine, stop with those terrifying dreams! Please, don't smoke if you're a smoker and don't allow anyone in the house, and plenty of clear fluids cranberryjuice and right warm fluids are great. unless otherwise instructed by your physician. Love and support honey, hang in there, sounds like your on the road to recovery. </p> http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/topic/from-inside-the-bubble-pus-as-a-personal-friend#post-2006 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:05:34 +0000 Anonymous 2006@http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/ <p>ppm I thought she was in the hosp. May be wrong. Young folks have that on their side. My last, loosing my beloved Bill at the VA hosp in Dayton Ohio was enough for me. Im finished with them, but yes they are a necessary thing at times. Mother doesn't do hosp. or funerals. </p> http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/topic/from-inside-the-bubble-pus-as-a-personal-friend#post-2003 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:10:03 +0000 lilzitgitter 2003@http://www.popthatzit.com/zit-forums/ <p>Everyone!</p> <p>Thank you for such gestures of kindness in the notes you have written. I'm still hospital free but not completely pain free nor is it completely gone yet but my goodness gracious, it is much better.</p> <p>On the topic of antibiotic horsepills, MotherE you guessed correctly. The pills looked bigger than me, but I knew most of it was mind over matter. My father had read somewhere some time ago that when you are attempting to swallow a lot of medication or large pills, choose to do so with water or tea (or anything you can warm) the hottest temperature you can stand. The heat in the liquid will open the airway long enough to swallow the pill.</p> <p>You also pointed out something that I didn't know till tonight and your note MotherE, relating to the airway closing. I had two dreams, two mornings in a row where I'd gone several longer periods of time without benedryl (that I have to take regularly for another medication to work without causing heart or lung issues) and I would wake with the sensation that I was either drowning or being choked. My dreams were a bit dark, but it was just my body trying to send a message to my brain, "Sit up! Wake up! Breathe! Once I was up, pillows propping me about a 70 degree angle, everything was far less scary.</p> <p>Today is day three of the full dosings, and I'm feeling hopeful that the antibiotic will continue to help. There are fringe benefits. I've had a sense for about 18 months that there was an issue with fluid in my lungs and shallow breaths as a result. I also experience kidney pain in my only kidney still working yet they cannot isolate the infected region. Both still behaved like infected cells. Now that I've been taking the horse pills, I've had a sense of someone pushing a giant reset button for my body. It's a good feeling. I don't think they were all that concerned about the little details, but the overall big picture really is much better.</p> <p>Blessed be and again, my thanks...<br /> I may wait a few more days to observe draining abscesses, but I don't think I'm at all cured... side note... my son is almost 18 and past the worst of hormone related acne. Today he arrived home with a monster zit on his neck. I was so sure I needed to 'git it'. I stopped myself because I didn't want to infect him with transference. What can a mother do?</p> <p>Take care,<br /> z </p>