Well, today I went to the dentist to have root canal work done. Since that isn't my first time I didn't expect anything major. Boy, was that one heck of a root canal. All the previous once I had not much pain during the procedure, but this root canal was one of the most painful dentist appointments in a long time. Maybe it was because the infection wasn't gone 100%. I'm not sure about that. It took for ever for the local anesthesia to work. And than it was still painful at times. That's when I kept wishing that I had made the appointment in the late afternoon and not at 8 am in the morning.
Once the procedure was over that tooth still hurt. According to the dentist it was due to the fact that the nerve got aggravated and I should take a pain killer and during the day the pain should subside. So I took a pain killer and went to work. And it never got better. It went to a paint when I was taking one pain killer every 3 hours. OK, during the night I slept quite well. The next morning that tooth was still very tender and I so didn't want to chew on that thing. But it was better than the previous day. So I went to work and had planned to see the dentist later that day, if the pain should not subside. In the early afternoon the pain was finally gone.
So it took about 36 hours to get rid of the pain. Not exactly a fun thing to do as far as I'm concerned!
Monday, November 26, 2012
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Dentist Appointment...
Well, this morning there was just no other way then to go to the dentist and I so wasn't looking forward to that. I have a tooth that I had done some work one a couple of month ago and it had been slightly bothering me here and there. But nothing to major. And so I kept putting it off. But after not being able to sleep the entire night, because of a tooth ache that was almost driving me up the walls, I had to have it taken care off. So I had to call in work, that I would be coming in late.
I was the first patient at the dentist and he pretty much confirmed what I already knew, that I would need to have root canal work done. So he opened up that tooth, put the needles in the canal and could have jumped to the ceiling. No amount of anesthesia would going to work here, since that tooth was infected. So he put some medication into the root canals, put a temporary cap in that tooth and I will have to come back on Monday to continue that saga.
After that I went right back to work. The first 2 hours were so no fun as that tooth kept "working" and bothering me. But as time went on it got better and I did have a actually quite productive day at work.
There is a bright side to that. Right now I'm pain free and if I had to have that done in the States, it would have cost me boatload of cash...but here it's paid by public healthcare.
And coming Monday the Saga will continue...
I was the first patient at the dentist and he pretty much confirmed what I already knew, that I would need to have root canal work done. So he opened up that tooth, put the needles in the canal and could have jumped to the ceiling. No amount of anesthesia would going to work here, since that tooth was infected. So he put some medication into the root canals, put a temporary cap in that tooth and I will have to come back on Monday to continue that saga.
After that I went right back to work. The first 2 hours were so no fun as that tooth kept "working" and bothering me. But as time went on it got better and I did have a actually quite productive day at work.
There is a bright side to that. Right now I'm pain free and if I had to have that done in the States, it would have cost me boatload of cash...but here it's paid by public healthcare.
And coming Monday the Saga will continue...
Friday, November 16, 2012
Control Appointment...
Today was the control appointment at my doctors. That was also the time when I was going to find out the results of my blood work. Considering the time I had been off the meds you would expect me to be nervous...but I really wasn't.
The blood pressure meds are working just fine and now I'm down to a BP of 130 / 85 and that's good. The rest of my blood work didn't show many surprises either. It's all pretty much where it should be. Except for the Cholesterol.
My total cholesterol is about 70 point to high. Not terrible but it has to come down. My HDL is about 5 points too low, and my LDL is about 50 points to high. And my Triglycerides are about 100 point too high. Not much of a surprise there. I now should try to get it in check without meds. And in 3 month we will be visiting that issue again.
My Blood Sugar has is continuing to do it's borderline Diabetes thing and as a precautionary measure my doctor but me on meds to get a handle on that.
My rash has been significantly improving. My CD-4 count is now down to 395, what isn't bad considering the time I have been off the meds. I would have thought that it would be way worse than that. My HIV-PCR count is up to 58.000. Not much of a surprise here either. Good thing is that I didn't develop any resistance against any of the meds currently on the market. And yes, since today I'm back on the meds again.
So all in all a very positive control appointment.
The blood pressure meds are working just fine and now I'm down to a BP of 130 / 85 and that's good. The rest of my blood work didn't show many surprises either. It's all pretty much where it should be. Except for the Cholesterol.
My total cholesterol is about 70 point to high. Not terrible but it has to come down. My HDL is about 5 points too low, and my LDL is about 50 points to high. And my Triglycerides are about 100 point too high. Not much of a surprise there. I now should try to get it in check without meds. And in 3 month we will be visiting that issue again.
My Blood Sugar has is continuing to do it's borderline Diabetes thing and as a precautionary measure my doctor but me on meds to get a handle on that.
My rash has been significantly improving. My CD-4 count is now down to 395, what isn't bad considering the time I have been off the meds. I would have thought that it would be way worse than that. My HIV-PCR count is up to 58.000. Not much of a surprise here either. Good thing is that I didn't develop any resistance against any of the meds currently on the market. And yes, since today I'm back on the meds again.
So all in all a very positive control appointment.
Monday, November 5, 2012
Doctor's Appointment...
Today it was finally time for my doctors appointment. It is so overdue. Had planned on doing that way earlier, but it just never happened. First I started my new job and that was quite a stressful time. Then was vacation time at work and there was just no time for the doctors appointment either. Then my co-worker quit and I had even more work than before. And then I had to deal with all the work that has to do with end of the accounting year. But over the past 2 weeks I had realized that it was more than time since I was having a terrible blood pressure.
My base BP was 150 / 100 and some of the BP spikes were 170 - 180 / 115...and that's absolutely terrible. There were times when I felt just like passing out, but somehow I always managed to get through those spikes without anything happening.
When I waited at the doctors office you so could tell the typical gay boys apart for the dog owning gay boys. The first ones are perfectly styled and the dog owners really don't spend much time on picking their wardrobe. I did have a nice chat with one of the guys who was at the doctors office with the dog and that's something I like about that particular physician.
When I had my appointment he measured the BP and it was up to 220 /120. He gave me right away a Nitro Spray and that brought the BP down 180 / 100 and he put me right away on blood pressure meds. In about 2 weeks I will have to go back and see how things are working. Then we will have to decide if I need to have a Heart Ultra Sound to see how much damage the high BP has caused, since I did realize that I'm at times out of breath in situations where I shouldn't be. And it occurred to me as well that the blood pressure situation must have been going on at least for a couple of month.
But there was another reason as well for that appointment. I do have a rash that has been going on for quite some time. Have been dealing with that thing on and off for the past 15 years. But lately it has gotten worse and it got quite itchy as well....and being off the HIV meds for quite some time is probably not helping the situation either. So the doctor prescribed something new for the rash and of course I got my blood work done and in 2 weeks I'll know what the situation is like and the plan is to get back on the meds again.
My base BP was 150 / 100 and some of the BP spikes were 170 - 180 / 115...and that's absolutely terrible. There were times when I felt just like passing out, but somehow I always managed to get through those spikes without anything happening.
When I waited at the doctors office you so could tell the typical gay boys apart for the dog owning gay boys. The first ones are perfectly styled and the dog owners really don't spend much time on picking their wardrobe. I did have a nice chat with one of the guys who was at the doctors office with the dog and that's something I like about that particular physician.
When I had my appointment he measured the BP and it was up to 220 /120. He gave me right away a Nitro Spray and that brought the BP down 180 / 100 and he put me right away on blood pressure meds. In about 2 weeks I will have to go back and see how things are working. Then we will have to decide if I need to have a Heart Ultra Sound to see how much damage the high BP has caused, since I did realize that I'm at times out of breath in situations where I shouldn't be. And it occurred to me as well that the blood pressure situation must have been going on at least for a couple of month.
But there was another reason as well for that appointment. I do have a rash that has been going on for quite some time. Have been dealing with that thing on and off for the past 15 years. But lately it has gotten worse and it got quite itchy as well....and being off the HIV meds for quite some time is probably not helping the situation either. So the doctor prescribed something new for the rash and of course I got my blood work done and in 2 weeks I'll know what the situation is like and the plan is to get back on the meds again.
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