Milims wrote:Thank you for all your hugs and symapthies! I went back to work today and all was fine. I've abandoned the antibiotics - they were making me feel grotty! Honestly - I thought that doctors and medicine were meant to make you better not worse!
That seemed to be the original idea. But - I've heard so many stories recently about doctors and their incompetence - I think partly due to the fact that they only have a very limited time to get to grips with each patient - I know I try to avoid them like hell... In fact, if I'm really ill, I won't be able to go anyway; and if I'm not really ill, there's no sense in going. A friend of mine (also happens to be German, but, like me, lived here for half his life), tends to get anything non-urgent seen to in Germany when he's back there - has to pay privately for it, of course; but at least, he says, they actually listen to what you tell them, and then tell you what they are proposing to do, and the possible side effects, whereas here you just get looked at (if you are lucky), and they prescribe some concoction of antibiotics and other nasties, in the hope that it'll either cure you or kill you...
Anyway - glad to hear you're better!
So it was back to the docs and this time he gave me anti hystamines (sp?) and a different antibiotic - that came with the strict warning that it MUST be taken with lots of water and after food and I MUST NOT lie down afterwards NOR must I be in direct sunlight - oh and it WILL make me feel nauseous! Delightful! And the not lying down bit is easier said than done when the antihystamines make me fall asleep! Ah the miracles of modern medicine! So here I am on a fantastically sunny day avoiding going out into the garden at all costs (they didn't tell me exactly what the sunlight would do to me, but after the red rash I'm not chancing it! 
) Thank goodness for you guys - you've kept me sane! 
). It's 21 degree in the house - and that is too warm for me! 
