@RationalizedInsanity@mastodon.socialGood news!
My Cavitary Lesion in my lung wasn't Tuberculosis!
Bad news- I was failed by doctors again.
I thought I had nasal polyps. Was scheduled for surgery.
I took antibiotics for pneumonia about a month ago. My nasal symptoms also subsided, and I got my sense of smell back.
Even more so with more at the hospital the last few days.
I had a severe nasal infection, which dripped into my lungs, and infected them due to poor previous health lowering my immune system
@RationalizedInsanity OK, sounds better.
@Blanco Indeed because it's a whole lot more simple of an infection to solve than TB, which is an absolute bastard, can be medication resistant, and can come back and still not be cured after like weeks of medication.
@RationalizedInsanity if you replaced sinuses with ears, that was me. 50 years of shitty health from ear infections draining into my lungs — culminating in 5 pneumonias between 2010 and 2020.
the last one was bad. a week in the hospital. peritonitis too. but it got me in to have a full inspection by a pulmonologist who diagnosed it in like 10 min.
couple years later and i had permanent ear tubes installed. no issues since.
50 years. fifty. five zero.
10 minutes. ten.
i hate doctors.
@isaiah I am starting to as well.
I had this nasal issue and literally couldn't smell for the majority of the last three years or so.
I just think it's funny they were literally going TO GIVE ME SURGICAL INTERVENTION before trying antibiotics.
Seems a few fucking steps got skipped there.
Also tried steroids several times because they thought it was from too much Afrin.
Never antibiotics though.
@RationalizedInsanity my kid got diagnosed with asthma when he was 4. he suffered though 6 years of asthma meds and never once being allowed outside to run and play with other kids for all that time.
we moved to a warmer climate for it.
my wife would spend every recess with him in the library. and SO MANY. doctors.
then one doctor said: “had he done an asma challenge test” to prove he really has asthma?
we were like, “wait. what? that’s a thing? no one has EVER mentioned that. not a hint.”
@RationalizedInsanity
30 min later the doctor said. “no asthma”. orbable VCD (vocal chord dysfunction).
it took about six weeks with a speech pathologist doing some boring but easy exercises and his “asthma” was cured.
i still can’t believe how many doctors were willing just to prescribe him stronger and stronger meds despite us saying over and over than none worked AT ALL.
worse than that it was largely an anxiety disorder. stimulants that treat asthma almost always make anxiety much worse.
every time he had trouble breathing we gave him meds that made it worse. 
it took years of lots of cardio to bring him up to par with his peers but now you’d never know.
but i feel like a ton of doctors owe him the normal childhood he could have had if only someone had just bothered to test their assumptions.
@isaiah That is absolutely astounding that someone would give meds without actually checking.
But that also routinely happens with mental health, and I have had doctors try and give me antipsychotics for Tourettes about 30 times.
I immediately just walk out if I get a doctor that suggests that, because they literally cause brain damage and I'd rather just have tics.