Wolf Goes to the Doctor, 2006 Edition - Page 4

Tonchi · 11-02-2006, 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by wolf

I will have to try the L-Lysine, but I'm finding the notion of life without chocolate quite depressing.

(oh crap. I had PB on my bagel this morning ... well, maybe I can think of it as the path to another day off of work).

I need to clarify my statement: You do not have to GIVE UP chocolate and peanuts, just do not eat them until your lesions clear up and for at least a week afterwards. Life is not worth living without chocolate! It's just that I am 10 times more likely to have an outbreak if I just ate an entire jar of peanuts, and it soon became obvious that the herpes would break out again if I didn't lay off more peanuts and chocolate for a few weeks afterwards (both mixed together are as deadly as you can get, i.e., Reese's Peanut Butter Cups). It has been worth it, however, to be able to put an end to the outbreak before it really gets serious. The first indication that I am going to break out is a pounding pain on the left side of my head and lethargy. This starts about 24 hours before the outbreak. I immediately rush for the bottle of Lysene and get three of them down as quickly as possible. There have been times where this actually kept the sores from erupting, my upper lip and inside my earlobe get red and hot but do not go any further and are gone by the next day.

P.S. Something I forgot to mention before: I control the drippy lesions by slathering with BLISTEX. It works nicely and the scabs can be wiped right off with a tissue that way. This beats the treatment the doctor in Albuquerque tried when I had the first episode. He cut away the lesions and filled them with gentian violet and then put my cheek under some kind of purple light. I now have pits on my face from that. In retrospect it sounds like witch doctor treatment, but nobody knew what it was in those days.

Sundae · 11-03-2006, 02:22 PM

Wolf - wanna swap cravings? I can so easily stay off peanuts & chocolate for you, if you can stay off cheese & beer for me.

Sorry to hear bout your eye btw. Despite being hyper sensitive about mine I've never had a proper eye infection and even having my eyes lasered sent me into freak-mode.

Good luck.

PS - post RFN. We need a different version of NSFW

Elspode · 11-03-2006, 03:05 PM

Mmmm....cheese and beer. Alllggghhhhh.... (Homer drool)

Elspode · 11-03-2006, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by wolf

squirting goo into my eye.

NSFW! NSFW!

wolf · 11-03-2006, 03:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

Wolf - wanna swap cravings? I can so easily stay off peanuts & chocolate for you, if you can stay off cheese & beer for me.

Great.

You just picked my other two favorite food groups.

Won't be able to trade out on that one ...

Sundae · 11-03-2006, 03:25 PM

Damnit

Garlic? Chillies? Bread?
Meh, what am I thinking, you're a woman of taste (am excluding the Hello Kitty thing here of course

)

wolf · 11-03-2006, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by jinx

Oh no!, Is this the event they are taping and plan to release?

That's the one.

footfootfoot · 11-03-2006, 04:37 PM

Gentian Violet? Oh god I used to freebase the stuff when I was a kid. I always had these fucking horrible chancre sores inside my mouth where the gums met the cheek. Awful.

Griff · 11-03-2006, 06:40 PM

We always used Blu-Kote brand gentian violet for the critters. Are you saying you put that stuff in your mouth?

theirontower · 11-03-2006, 07:39 PM

I had a friend get shingles after stupidly messing around with Xtasy, the drug.

Come to find out, that since Shingles lives in your spinal column, and drugs like Xtasy and acid have a huge impact and effect on your nervous system/spinal column, they can release things stored there. A bunch of ppl I know who have done Acid or X (never tried either myself) all complain about a stiff neck/back, back pain and tension, which from what another friend told me is the body reacting to the strichnine used to cut the drug (gee, and why is that I never played with hard drugs?

).

He took too much, and it was released from his spine into this body. It spread over his head entirely, they had to cover his eyes with shot glasses. Eventually it went away, but he was out of commision for quite some time.

Sucks Wolf, hope you get better quickly, not fair to have to deal with somthing like that without a good reason or an obvious fuckup.

Steve

wolf · 11-07-2006, 07:54 PM

Made an hour long (one way), rush hour traffic drive to the doctor's office to get a note saying I can go back to work tomorrow.

xoxoxoBruce · 11-07-2006, 07:59 PM

Now that's a dedicated employee.

Couldn't they have faxed it to your boss? Or did they want to see you first?

wolf · 11-07-2006, 10:39 PM

Lately, time out of the house is always good time, even if rush hour traffic is involved.

I suppose I could have had it faxed, but it's actually better that I went in person. I called ahead to make sure that the note would be prepared, gave them several hours to work diligently on it, arrived at the office to have the Officer Manager look at me and say, "Note? What kind of note?"

"A note to clear me to return to work. My name is 'wolf,' spelled double-ewe oh ell eff."

"Oh. We couldn't find your chart. You had shingles? Are they all dry and crusted? Can you wait about 20 minutes until the doctor is done with a patient to have them looked at?"

Less than five minutes of searching in the place where my chart should have been prompted another office worker to say, "hey, there's some more charts over here ..." My chart was in the mystery pile. Should have been refiled a week ago, but at least they found it.

After displaying my scabs to the Office Manager, she wrote a note on a teensy little form (smaller than one of those "while you were out" pads) and faked the doctor's signature on it.

I hope the boss buys it. I'm running short on reasons not to kill my mother.

morethanpretty · 11-07-2006, 11:52 PM

sorry bout the shingles wolf.
bbro: i used to never ever get poison ivy (and i blatanly walked through it) then I once touch it and then touched my mouth and got soaked into my bloodstream. It was awful I broke out randomly everywhere including my face, and what made the whole xp worse was a guy-friend in my grade (9th) had it on his penis at the same time (he had been pulling weeds and then went and took a piss). Fortunatly I haven't had an obvious case of it since but i can never walk through the woods w/ the same confidence again.
Don't kill your mother wolf unless you know of a good place to hide the body and you're good at acting.

Tonchi · 11-08-2006, 01:35 AM

Don't forget the best part - soak the scabs with Blistex and they will wipe right off without causing a scar. But dry it off or put a dressing over it when you go to bed; if it gets rubbed into your eyes while you are tossing around in your sleep, you will be very unhappy about it

P.S. Something else I just remembered that the dermotologist told me: direct sunlight is very bad for herpes outbreakes, so stay indoors until you are back to normal.

11-03-2006, 02:22 PM	#47
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Wolf - wanna swap cravings? I can so easily stay off peanuts & chocolate for you, if you can stay off cheese & beer for me. Sorry to hear bout your eye btw. Despite being hyper sensitive about mine I've never had a proper eye infection and even having my eyes lasered sent me into freak-mode. Good luck. PS - post RFN. We need a different version of NSFW __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

11-03-2006, 03:05 PM	#48
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Mmmm....cheese and beer. Alllggghhhhh.... (Homer drool) __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

11-03-2006, 03:25 PM	#51
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Damnit Garlic? Chillies? Bread? Meh, what am I thinking, you're a woman of taste (am excluding the Hello Kitty thing here of course ) __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

11-03-2006, 04:37 PM	#53
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Gentian Violet? Oh god I used to freebase the stuff when I was a kid. I always had these fucking horrible chancre sores inside my mouth where the gums met the cheek. Awful. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

11-03-2006, 06:40 PM	#54
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	We always used Blu-Kote brand gentian violet for the critters. Are you saying you put that stuff in your mouth? __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

11-03-2006, 07:39 PM	#55
theirontower Fellow-Commoner Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 10	I had a friend get shingles after stupidly messing around with Xtasy, the drug. Come to find out, that since Shingles lives in your spinal column, and drugs like Xtasy and acid have a huge impact and effect on your nervous system/spinal column, they can release things stored there. A bunch of ppl I know who have done Acid or X (never tried either myself) all complain about a stiff neck/back, back pain and tension, which from what another friend told me is the body reacting to the strichnine used to cut the drug (gee, and why is that I never played with hard drugs? ). He took too much, and it was released from his spine into this body. It spread over his head entirely, they had to cover his eyes with shot glasses. Eventually it went away, but he was out of commision for quite some time. Sucks Wolf, hope you get better quickly, not fair to have to deal with somthing like that without a good reason or an obvious fuckup. Steve

11-07-2006, 07:54 PM	#56
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Made an hour long (one way), rush hour traffic drive to the doctor's office to get a note saying I can go back to work tomorrow. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

11-07-2006, 07:59 PM	#57
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Now that's a dedicated employee. Couldn't they have faxed it to your boss? Or did they want to see you first? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

11-07-2006, 10:39 PM	#58
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Lately, time out of the house is always good time, even if rush hour traffic is involved. I suppose I could have had it faxed, but it's actually better that I went in person. I called ahead to make sure that the note would be prepared, gave them several hours to work diligently on it, arrived at the office to have the Officer Manager look at me and say, "Note? What kind of note?" "A note to clear me to return to work. My name is 'wolf,' spelled double-ewe oh ell eff." "Oh. We couldn't find your chart. You had shingles? Are they all dry and crusted? Can you wait about 20 minutes until the doctor is done with a patient to have them looked at?" Less than five minutes of searching in the place where my chart should have been prompted another office worker to say, "hey, there's some more charts over here ..." My chart was in the mystery pile. Should have been refiled a week ago, but at least they found it. After displaying my scabs to the Office Manager, she wrote a note on a teensy little form (smaller than one of those "while you were out" pads) and faked the doctor's signature on it. I hope the boss buys it. I'm running short on reasons not to kill my mother. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

11-07-2006, 11:52 PM	#59
morethanpretty Thats "Miss Zipper Neck" to you. Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: little town (but not the littlest) in texas Posts: 2,957	sorry bout the shingles wolf. bbro: i used to never ever get poison ivy (and i blatanly walked through it) then I once touch it and then touched my mouth and got soaked into my bloodstream. It was awful I broke out randomly everywhere including my face, and what made the whole xp worse was a guy-friend in my grade (9th) had it on his penis at the same time (he had been pulling weeds and then went and took a piss). Fortunatly I haven't had an obvious case of it since but i can never walk through the woods w/ the same confidence again. Don't kill your mother wolf unless you know of a good place to hide the body and you're good at acting. __________________ Addicts may suck dick for coke, but love came up with the idea to put a dick in there to begin with. -Jack O'Brien

11-08-2006, 01:35 AM	#60
Tonchi Victim of gravity Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Hiding in plain sight Posts: 1,412	Don't forget the best part - soak the scabs with Blistex and they will wipe right off without causing a scar. But dry it off or put a dressing over it when you go to bed; if it gets rubbed into your eyes while you are tossing around in your sleep, you will be very unhappy about it P.S. Something else I just remembered that the dermotologist told me: direct sunlight is very bad for herpes outbreakes, so stay indoors until you are back to normal. __________________ Everything you've ever heard about Fresno is true.

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