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For the past 8 or so days, I have been battling with my first-ever case of strep throat. If I had known what it was, I would have gone to the doctor earlier. But, as it is, I took a few days of agony–waking up covered in sweat, being unable to swallow, taking 16 baths a day to fight off the chills–before I realized that this wasn’t just some sort of Flu which would pass on its own.
The day I went to the doctor was also the day that the ear infection started. Probably brought on by the strep, would be my guess.
So I spent another day (last Monday) thrashing in bed, sweating, crying and unable to focus.
Finally, the amoxicillin kicked in and, with a numb throat and no hearing in my right ear, it was back to work. Well, sort of. Of course, this meant totally overdoing it and spending that Friday again bedridden with one very confused dog, who wasn’t sure why we were not at work or, at the very least, awake in the middle of the day.
The problem I encountered after the meds started to kick in was this: incredible and overwhelming dizziness. Dizziness that still lives on today. Dizziness that means driving isn’t really an option. And that makes me wonder what my options are come Monday. Ugh.
Apparently this dizziness may be a side effect (albeit a rare one) of amoxicillin; or it may be caused by the ear infection, since your ears are the home of your equilibrium.
I tend to think it’s the amoxicillin, since I’ve had about 5897362 ear infections in my life and never remember this kind of dizziness, but I don’t think I’ve taken amoxicillin before and so have no dizzy or non-dizzy episodes to compare it to. The doctor thinks it’s the ear infection — but again I beg to differ.
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