I am terrible about going to the Doctor when it comes to my own health. I started feeling run down a few days ago but chalked it up to me returning to work. Then the day before my throat was sore and I told myself, I am just not used to raising my voice in a gymnasium full of children. Now I feel like death warmed over, my throat is killing me, my ears feel like they are going to rupture and I am running 102.4....do I go into Urgent Care over the weekend? Or wait and see how I feel Monday and possibly miss Monday work?
**** Went to Urgent Care today, they did not do a strep test but said it was definitely an infection, all they did was look at my throat and ears. I am on an antibiotic and was told I am safe to return to work on Monday = ) Hoping I feel like Me again by then! = )
Now that I am around the little "germ factories" is there anything I can start taking to boost my immune system?
Alex ( 4 yr old ) is starting to shnuffle : ( Hoping I do not give it to everyone in the house. Fever just started tonight, loaded up on acetiminphen and headed to bed. Thanks moms....I kind of figured I needed to go but I sure didn't want to : (
Went to Urgent Care today, they did not do a strep test but told me I definitely had an infection after looking in my ears and seeing my throat, on an antibiotic and hopefully I feel like ME by Monday = )
I would go ( well, actually *I* wouldn't go & end up being miserable by Mon.) Anyway, you probably have an infection and the sooner you get some meds, the sooner you will feel better. You could be feeling better by Mon., instead of still sick.
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Go to urgent care. One day on antibiotic and you will feel like a new women.
Go to doc. Sounds like you work around kids and I know we have had strep going around here.
Go to the doc. You have a little one at home and if your body is fighting something that much, then it could be contagious or bacteria, and if it is, then you need to get better sooner rather than later. Don't think of it as taking care of you, think of it as protecting your little one if you need to. Good luck and feel better!!
LOL GO TO URGENT CARE! You probably have like strep throat or something which is highly contagious. If you go to Urgent Care over the weekend, you'll probably get an antibiotic and it will allow your body to get rid of the bacteria in your system (antibiotics take about 24 hours to start taking effect). Then you could possibly get to work Monday and not miss. Trust me! I myself have been to Urgent Care (well with my kids more than myself) and they charge about the same amount as the doctor's office.
Go to urgent care. If it is nothing, then you wasted money enough to go out to dinner. If it is something, your family won't miss going out to dinner. They'd rather have you healthy and happy.
Get well soon. Good luck to you and yours.
I'd go. If you have strep throat the sooner you start antibiotics the sooner you will be ok to return to work.
Can't you call your internist on call. If he thinks it is serious he will either call in a scrip or send you to urgent care.
Definitely go to the urgent care and get a steroid shot and a zpac going tomorrow. That way you'll feel better sooner. Otherwise, you'll just be miserable longer!
Urgent Care. Don't waste the weekend that you could be recuperating feeling miserable. Midwife Mom
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if this has been going on for more than 48 hours - go to urgent care...especially with an ongoing fever...
GOOD LUCK!!
urgent care or a Walgreens/CVS clinic
depends. If you think it is strep or a sinus infection, go to urgent care for antibiotics, if it wasn't strep, I would just wait it out because they can't do anything for a virus. But I am one of those people that just doesn't rush out to the doc unless there is something I think they can do, because usually they just send me home empty handed. there is a lot of nasty things going around right now and I am sure being near kids isn't helping you. I would take some tylenol and see if it helps with the fever.
See how you feel tomorrow and then maybe go to urgent care.
Lot's of vitamin c, airborne tablets that fizz in water, echinacea, lots of water, veggies, great diet, extra hand washing of course, and time. Your body will struggle through and adapt just like our children have to when they start daycare.
that sounds like strep and it's nasty and nothing to play around with - get thee to a doctor immediately.
Yes, go to Urgent Care, now. Best to avoid any further complications, as well as infecting others. Strep is contagious, and leads to a lot of complications if you don't get it treated with antibiotics.
Vitamin C, Echinacea, washing hands, Zinc, area all helpful in minimizing colds/or preventing them.
If you work in a school, you need to stop ignoring it & go to the doctor.
