strep throat, help
 

I am without insurance at the time, and I think I may be getting strep again.

I have had it like 3 times now and I know that most times I never used all of the antibiotics prescribed to get rid of it. I can't find them tho.

Does anyone here have any? If so let me know, I'd really appreciate the help. My throat will thank you.

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its called medication

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gargle w/ salt water twice a day.

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I concurr, and take vitamins, and try putting a hmidifyer in your room if you have one

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Dont be stupid! Go get some antibiotics for your strep throat. You need to get some antibiotics, usually ampicillin or penicillin. I'd give you some but I dont have any at the moment. Its important to treat your strep throat correctly because you can run into other complications, i.e. heart diseases, arthritis, or rheumatic fever. You need to treat it aggressively because it is relatively contagious. If you give it to a child they can get renal failure from it (rare but it happens).

Try to get penicillin or ampicillin-- 3-4 times a day for 7-10 days. Drop me a PM... I'll try to help you out if you have some other antibiotics. Main point is to finish the antibiotics and dont stop half way. Thats how you get antibiotic resistant bacterias!!!

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yeah i know, but a trip to an ER is gonna cost me loads.

i talked to my mom, she has 4 penicillin pills, that probably isnt gonna do ----.

I'd hate to spend the money on an ER visit and not even have strep.

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well you need to have a throat culture taken to determine if you really have it. I would suggest just goind to a free clinic or something if you ahve them in the area.

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Don't go to the damn ER that ---- is expensive. Make an appointment with a doctors office, or go to one of those urgent care centers I believe those are cheaper. You could always call and ask if they are cheaper.

There's an urgent care center over on 185th and cornell on the left side right before cornell heading to 26.

I haven't been to a hospital in years for myself, driven friends plenty of times lol. I would just buy a bottle of that clhoraseptic and drink that ---- for a few days.

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If you dont take enough to get rid of it completly, like just enogh to fell better it will come back twice as bad in a couple months. :P

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yeah i know thats why i had the extra drugs, from the first time, then got it again shortly after, took all of those for sure.

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drink bleach... that should kill the bacteria

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you're about as useful as dried up dogshit sometimes.

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you might be FOOKED!

ill go check and see if i got anything to mail u lol

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i dont think ill wait that long honestly, i may hit the urgent care civiczc mentioned.

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im headed to urgent now, im 90% sure i have strep, ive never been wrong before.

hopefully their still open.

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You guys need health care like Canada or just drive up here, they can't deny treatment:P

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try some
Everclear 153 proof,... always worked for me

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We need that like a hole in the head. But let's not turn this into socialist vc. capitolist.

Fact is this isn't canada, so this is what happens sometimes.

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see, if I suspected I had strep throat, I'd hit up the clinic or hospital, get my pretty much free meds, go home, and get a call from the doctor the next day to see if im alright. I'd hit up the follow up apointments, get tested, all for free. no worries. ;)

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take vitamin c three times a day and get some zithromax. i think u can get it over the counter. take that ---- for a week and youll be straight.


then stop swallowing hotrex's babies.

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well, we in canada get free medical hehehehehehe move here :D

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zithromax? i hope ur joking with me! It'll work but it will also knock out quite a few good bugs in your body... oh wait chlamydia is a bad bug!

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so thats a good thing then. i dunno i get that ---- for free. works great. maybe that why i never got an std. ;)

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everclear is more than 153 proof. it's 95%, which means 190 proof.

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they dont deny treatment here either, in this state that is illegal, they just send you a fat bill afterwards.

anyways, thanks for all the useful responses guys, i think i got more useful and "we give a ----" sort of answers out of you guys than I did my own mom and sister.

hmt ownz me.

ps - i went to the ER, missed the place CivicZC mentioned by 15 minutes :(

strep for sure, tested positive for that. they gave me an amoxycillin there to get me thru the night, and prescribed straight penicillin that ill go get in the morning.

they also gave me some liquid vicodin, for the pain. hopefully im doing better tomorrow so I can finish moving.

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I'm on Zithromax right now for my Strep Throat. It's good stuff. 6 pills and you're done.
But then I'm in Canada, so it cost me 8$

D.

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ya ya, so up here in Canada we get "free" health care. Wait a second, why do i lose 25% of my pay to taxes again? ::)

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easiest and cheapest to get rid of it is gargle the OG Brown listerine 3 or 4 times a day for a few days, tastes like ass but it works

are you sure its not mono?? :-X

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if it was mono do you think they would've done a strep culture and had it show positive for strep?

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Damn that sucks.........move to Canada and enjoy the cold weather and free health care!

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what is strep throat ???

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its a bacterial infection that hurts like a bitch

swells your tonsils up really bad and makes your throat hurt like a mutha, also puts these weird white puss lookin things all over your tonsils too

update - I just had to go back to the ER, I woke up this morning, took a dose of the liquid vicodin stuff, did some salt water gargling, and had a can of chicken soup, then took my first penicillin dose.

About 45 mins later I broke into an extreme sweat and sever abdominal pain. I sat in the waiting room of urgent care for 20 mins and it went away, so I came home.

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Welcome to our "great" health system.

:-\ Man that blows. Glad you're doing better though, that crap ain't good.

I remember after wrecking my car it took them a good while to get me a room, I was at that hospital for a good 4 hours or so...

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ahh.. bad gas huh?

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what the hell kind of bad gas do you get that causes you to break into nasty cold sweats that soak your clothing in 10 mins and put you to the ground in abdominal pain?

seek help.

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I had that same thing when I had strep. Massive fevers, you're sweating but you're cold. One of the worst feelings I've ever felt. Then my chest/stomach started cramping up like no other. Went away in about 3 days.

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the only time ive felt like that bad, was when i once took some ibuprofen on an empty stomach.

ever since i always eat when taking meds.

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That's what I did, I think. Warning labels are there for a reason.. I couldn't see after that too, I remember my eyes being sensitive and colors were distorted. I don't know wtf was wrong with me.

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i meant the abdominal pains.

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When I had strep and crap, it wasn't gas.. it was my muscles tightening up for no particular reason and causing excruciating pain. :-\