Sick of being sick.

After an excruciating headache on the 4th (prompting me to tell my sister that I thought my brain was swelling), and waking up with horrible neck pain yesterday, I decided to head to urgent care last night. My step mom, Donna, was nice enough to go with me so Andy could stay home with Isla. I was pumped when we arrived because there was no wait and I was seen within minutes of walking in. Once I saw the doctor though, my mood quickly changed. He had 3 thoughts for me: Meningitis. Brain aneurysm. West Nile. Grrrrrrrreat. He called one of the doctors in the emergency room and told them we were headed over for a spinal tap and CT scan. Not at all how I wanted to spend my evening.

The emergency room was filled with crazies and creeps. I didn't like being there. I had a normal CT scan (thank GOD!) and it was determined that they were not going to do a spinal tap because the doctor thought I "looked to good to have meningitis." I was sent home with no good answers and an order to see my ENT doctor in the morning.

Unfortunately, my ENT was not working this morning, so I had to see the other doctor. He was of little help to me, due to him not knowing the extent of my surgery, specifically, how far up my doctor went into my sinuses. He agreed with the ER doctor and said I didn't look like a typical meningitis patient and ordered me to take 600mg of Ibuprofen every 6 hours in hopes the anti inflammatory would bring down my neck pain.

Currently, I cannot turn my head to the right without feeling intense pain. My headache is not nearly as severe as it was on Sunday, but there is definitely sinus pressure. I was told to go to the ER immediately if my headache or neck pain worsens, so I'm hoping and praying that that does not happen. That will mean spinal tap. Right now, the 3 possible causes for this horrible pain are: a reaction to my antibiotics, steroid withdrawal, and meningitis. Steroid withdrawal is what I'm banking on. After lots of googling, it seems like people who go off of Prednisone can experience muscle and joint pain. I'm praying that is what is going on with me.

Tomorrow I plan on calling my ENT doctor and getting her opinion on everything. Basically, I'm playing a waiting game. Praying I don't get worse. Praying that I wake up feeling better. Praying that I don't have a crazy virus I can give to Isla.

I'm sick of feeling sick. I'm sick of worrying about what this could be! Please send good thoughts my way. I totally need them.