Bit of Ivory

Well, I’ve been. The doctor spent a lot of time looking at me like I was from another planet. But the wheels were turning behind that expression. He doesn’t know for sure *why* I’m tired, but we’re going to try to fix the things we can fix. For instance, the inside of my nose is red instead of pink, which means I have active allergies which the Allegra isn’t helping. So we’re trying Zyrtec instead, which I’m supposed to take at night because it makes you drowsier than Allegra, and that might help me sleep better. He also gave me some Rhinocort Aqua, which is a steroidal nasal spray, which I’m supposed to use once a day– two sprays in each nostril. I’ll do this for two weeks, paying close attention to whether or not it’s helping. After two weeks, I’m supposed to try taking half of my 180-mg Allegras in the morning, and two Benadryl at night, keeping up with the Rhinocort. I get to see him again in four weeks.

If those don’t work, he has some other ideas. He also took some blood to check my liver enzyme levels. The Epstein-Barr virus, which causes mononucleosis, affects liver enzymes. I was diagnosed with mono almost 4 years ago, but they haven’t bothered checking my levels since– they’ve checked thyroid and just about everything else on the planet, but not liver– even though it’s been discovered recently that Epstein-Barr can be active for years on end. I actually hope it’s *not* Epstein-Barr, because if it is there’s not a darn thing we can do about it.

He said that most of the other doctors have focused on the sleep. We’re going to focus on the other stuff, and hope it makes my sleep better.

So, we’ll see.

Oh, and I made a new icon. *points* We were watching Road Runner cartoons tonight, and I was inspired.