{"id":1999,"date":"2007-11-19T08:38:19","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T13:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=1999"},"modified":"2007-11-19T08:38:51","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T13:38:51","slug":"when-self-medication-goes-awry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=1999","title":{"rendered":"When Self-Medication Goes Awry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday last week, I woke with a thunk &#8211; the sound of me going down big time in this whatever it is I have &#8211; Tuesday night C called and said she had just been to the doctor and had the same thing and I needed to take antibiotics. So I found some Amoxicillin that I had from when I had gotten an infection on my newly operated toe &#8211; because my then newfound puppy had bitten it &#8211; and started taking those. I kept getting worse. Last night, I was telling everyone how bad I still feel and there were two nurses in the room and turns out I have been taking an antibiotic for a skin infection this whole time.<\/p>\n<p>Who knew? Well, I didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Between two people there they had the equivalent of a ZPack which has six pills &#8211; two the first night and then one a day to knock it out. I took two last night and the headache that has been like a vice grip around my waking moments finally eased back a few notches. Perhaps by Thanksgiving, I can resume my healthy life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday last week, I woke with a thunk &#8211; the sound of me going down big time in this whatever it is I have &#8211; Tuesday night C called and said she had just been to the doctor and had the same thing and I needed to take antibiotics. So I found some Amoxicillin that I had from when I had gotten an infection on my newly operated toe &#8211; because my then newfound puppy&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-wf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}