thanks you guys

My trip to the doc was good for a laugh.

Checked my temp, blood pressure, lung capacity (I blew into a little device to show I much air I can take in). Listened to my lungs.

Checked my blood oxygen levels using a device I'd never seen before -- oximeter.


http://www.medicinenet.com/oximetry/article.htm


When he took the thing off my finger, he quick put it on his and did a reading on his blood oxygen levels.

I thought to myself, my reading is so good that guy can't believe the damn thing is working right -- he's checking to see!

So I said to him, "I'm not as sick as I should be, am I."

LOL

He had to agree! "No, no, you're not."

LOL

He was basically stumped. Said the symptoms during the first three weeks were probably an allergy (code for "I have no blinking idea") and that now it's probably a virus (code for "I still have no blinking idea.")

Said I should just treat the symptoms. Rattled off a bunch of over the counter antihistamines & decongestants that I would never even have in the house let alone put in my body.

Capped it with one of those precious suggestions we like so much. "You'll probably feel worse over the next few days, then it will clear up."

lol

And said call him back if it gets worse by middle of next week instead of better.

So there you have it! Stump the doc.

Snakeater, I'd come across your post in the archives -- thanks for reposting, I will take a lot more C than I have been.

Also doing Echinacea and I bought some licorice/slippery elm tea on the way home. Might also try a mustard plaster.

Trapper, I'd seen you mention pulverized salt and I'd tinkered w/ it but will step that up too. Haven't done salt water but will add that. I have been doing Iodine but will recheck my dosages on that to make sure I don't underdo.

And V, I don't have coldeze in the house but do have some other brand of zinc lozenge, will do that also.

Here's what I think. I think that the Iodine and C I've been doing has set my health baseline so high that something that should be knocking me on my buns is barely registering on any scale mainstream medicine can measure.

So here I was, feeling frustrated that I wasn't able to shake this off -- but I was looking at it all wrong, heh heh.






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