It’s been a long week. It’s been a busy week, a tiring week, a stressful week.
The good news is that, after my visit to the doctor on Tuesday, I woke up Wednesday not wishing my head would just explode and get it over with.
The bad news is that all day Thursday I felt like crap. Friday “crap” officially turned into chest pressure, some twinge-y pain, shortness of breath and nausea. I had my husband take me over to the hospital, where I spent five hours finding out that I probably wasn’t going to die that day (I didn’t), but they aren’t quite ready to label me a hypochondriac (I don’t think I am), either. I get to go back on Tuesday for a nuclear stress test to see what might or might not be the problem.
The highlight of my visit was when my nurse was unhooking all my monitors when I’d finally been cleared to leave, and he said one of the other nurses kept telling him he needed to check on me because my heart rate monitor was dinging. He said, “That’s a low number. Do you jog or exercise?”
Why yes, yes I do.
So, this stress test. Running. Fast. Hopefully my knee will not resent me too much for it after. I still am very aware of the back of my right knee, despite a regular rotation of ice packs, so clearly 10 days hasn’t been enough rest to make it happy. Ugh.
On top of which, I was looking up the side effects of my medications. I’m on Avelox for the sinus infection and Prednisolone for … well, not exactly sure, but I gather with the on-going nature of my cough she wanted to heavy-duty it up a bit.
And what is the interaction between Avelox and Prednisolone? According to drugs.com:
Concomitant administration of corticosteroids may potentiate the risk of tendinitis and tendon rupture associated with fluoroquinolone treatment. The mechanism is unknown. Tendinitis and tendon rupture have most frequently involved the Achilles tendon, although cases involving the rotator cuff (the shoulder), the hand, the biceps, and the thumb have also been reported. Some have required surgical repair or resulted in prolonged disability. Tendon rupture can occur during or up to several months after completion of fluoroquinolone therapy.
So I’m nursing an injury. I have to go run fast on a treadmill after doing nothing for almost two weeks. And I’m on a drug combo that has a “major interaction” that could cause me to rupture tendons.
Sometimes you just gotta laugh.
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