welll except that since he didn't prescribe the zpack i took last week I kinda do. Because the bit about symptoms improving with an rx he didn't provide is rather important.
Oh, of course anything having to do with your course of treatment is important to talk about. I just meant, you do not have to explain WHY you went to another doctor, or if you want to explain, their location being more convenient for you is nothing you should be embarrassed to mention. You're the customer.
I tried allegra and then claritin long before I found zyrtec. claritin is wholly useless for me; allegra mostly so. zyrtec is generally good. and the D is just a matter of adding pseudoephedrine.
i'm sick, not allergic. body temperature today has been flitting back and forth from 99.2 to 100, and I usually am under 98.
I agree that if you're coming down with some sort of infection, just taking allergy meds won't do much of anything. And, if it worsens and turns into some sort of pneumonia, well...
If all you think you need is some more antibiotics, would it make any sense to go to one of those walk - in clinics you can now find at chain pharmacies and the like? This sounds like it's their kind of thing. And, if their records are automatically coordinated with your primary care provider's systems... Well, why not?
Ummm. I won't claim I know this for certain, so I certainly could be wrong, but I *think* if I went to a walk-in clinic at, say, a Walgreens or CVS (where they take the health insurance plan I have through work), whatever information they put in my medical record there (e.g. not merely stuff necessary for billing and payment purposes, but also diagnostic and treatment information) would be transmitted back to my insurance provider, and then sent from there to my primary care physician selected through my insurance plan (who I know is using electronic medical records because I've seen it in action when I go for visits) so that the next time I visit my PCP is aware of what's going on (at least as long as he takes the time to look at it). I have an insurance plan from a company called "Vista", which appears to be South Florida region specific
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if sinus crap has already turned to infection the allergist isn't going to help now. and you're quite possibly too old for shots to do much good.
but the allergist does have some things that are better than over the counter, not a lot (for some reason allergy meds seem to be fast-tracked to OTC) but some, and stopping the allergy related gunk quickly is the key to having it not turn into an infection.
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i'm sick, not allergic. body temperature today has been flitting back and forth from 99.2 to 100, and I usually am under 98.
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If all you think you need is some more antibiotics, would it make any sense to go to one of those walk - in clinics you can now find at chain pharmacies and the like? This sounds like it's their kind of thing. And, if their records are automatically coordinated with your primary care provider's systems... Well, why not?
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but the allergist does have some things that are better than over the counter, not a lot (for some reason allergy meds seem to be fast-tracked to OTC) but some, and stopping the allergy related gunk quickly is the key to having it not turn into an infection.
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