Damn.
I’m dealing with some sinus issues here for which I saw a new ENT a couple weeks back. he sent me home with some steroids and some antibiotics, and the combination of the two is really annoying me. The steroids keep me from sleeping and the antibiotics are powerful enough that they seem to be actually going out of my body and curing people around me of their illnesses. Combine that with a bucketload of work over the weekend and I feel like a barrel of shit.
I took the last of the Easter ham and cooked it with some great northern beans and the bone and some onion and potato. The stuff was pretty poisonous, so I tried to eat it all Friday night to protect the wife and daughter from it’s evil.
Friday night and Saturday morning I felt like I had eaten a medicine ball. And the grenade effect Saturday morning was not pretty either. All that soluble fiber turned me into the play-doh fun factory of poo. You don’t want to know.
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Thanks for sharing, though.
Get a neti pot and use it every day. It will change your life.
Have done so, and no it hasn’t. Hippie bullshit only works on the stupid. Sure, it will rinse out your snotlocker, and for that it’s fine, but if you have a facial sinus issue or any real medical issue, it’s just more hippie non-medicine medicine that has absolutely zero effect- like “believing” in global warming, wealth redistribution, or really any of the typically ignorant liberal canards.
Hopefully you’ll be better soon!
Are you taking Prednisone? I’ve taken it a few times for asthma, nasty stuff. Gave me an appetite like a long-shoreman, upset my stomach (yeah, that’s fun when you’re ALSO hungry as a bear), made my skin sensitive (as in knocking on a door HURT) and made me grouchier than usual (amazing I didn’t commit murder).
Been over ten years since I’ve taken that crap, hope I never do again.
Prezactky, Mark.
Oh yeah, a co-worker also caught me at my desk crying, because I dropped my pen and it rolled under the desk.
Between moods and wanting to eat everything is sight, it was the closest a man can experience to PMS. In fact, women who’ve taken the stuff tell me the effects are similar.
If you’re on the prednisone more than a few days follow the tapering instructions religously. Stopping it abruptly can put you into adrenal suppression. I know from personal experience that that’s worse than the prednisone side effects . I hope you feel better soon
mark: indeed! I have fought THAT battle as well. And hat Trick, I’m in the “one a day for five days” path.
I’ve had sinus problems for over 20 years, and saline nasal irrigation has helped me immensely. I prefer the Neilmed bottle, I think the positive pressure helps get it into tight spots.
As for ham and beans, try anasazi beans. Much less gas, taste great. :D
Less gas?
I know what those words mean, but I cannot for the life of me imagine why anyone would use them in that combination
The Neti pot (Or any nasal irrigation) can only cleanse,and it can only cleanse the areas open to it. The facial sinuses can’t be easily reached, and are a large portion of the issue for me. I like the Neti pot for things like cleaning my sinuses after I’ve been outside mowing, for instance. For that it’s good. For other stuff, not so much.
I have had such bad sinus issues that I had to move out of NYC simply to put an end to the blood that came out with the mucus. Still the sinus headaches would come particularly when catching cold which I haven’t for a number of years.
Until last week. All hell
broke looseclogged up. And then my lovely younger daughter described to me with several pressure point tricks by telephone I’d never had administered before. They worked! I will tell you the next time we speak.