Doctor Doctor, Give Me The News

Seems like it’s been ages since I posted anything - this is becoming a habit without me really realizing it.
I mean to write on the regular, but life happens, and time is becoming more elusive every day lately.

Ah well, you do what you can I suppose.

The main topic in my life these days is ILLNESS.
I have been quite sick with what I thought was a cold for almost 8 weeks now.
8 weeks people. That’s 2 effen months!

After trying pretty much every herbal remedy under the sun with no improvement, I finally gave in and went to a “doctor”.
This did not make me happy in the least because I think western medicine is a complete farce for the most part, and I am against synthetic antibiotics because they do a number on your body.

ANYWAYS.

I go to this doctor by my house, he listens to my chest, and says my lungs sound “crappy”.
I asked him if that was an official medical term.
He then tells me I have a lung and sinus infection, writes me a prescription and sends me on my way.
The whole visit was less than 5 minutes - yet another reason I am leery of taking anything these guys prescribe.
How can they possibly diagnose someone they have no medical history on, have no blood work to verify their “diagnosis”, and have only a handful of minutes spent briefly checking over a patient??

I go fill my prescription, and start taking them for the prescribed 10 day duration.
The side effects were nasty from the start - terrible taste in my mouth, stomach pain, impaired taste, and trouble sleeping.
I would have got over these minor inconveniences if the medicine had started actually working at some point, but it did not.

Then on day 7, I break out in a rash that looks like measles all over my upper body and neck while I’m at work, and am told when I go back to the doc that day that it’s an allergic reaction to the medicine.
I am told to stop taking the medicine, and start taking Benadryl and cortisone to get rid of the rash.
Now not only am I still sick with a sinus and lung infection, I am fighting a horrible allergic reaction that makes me look like I have a skin disease for crying in the sink.

I HEART WESTERN MEDICINE.

Anywaaaaaaaays.
Go back to the doctor after the rash subsides, tell him it’s been 7 weeks of hell and I am not getting any better PLEASE HELP ME BEFORE I GO INSANE, he listens to my lungs again and says I have “something” in my right lung.
Thanks Einstein. I guess that solves that then.

He gives me a steroid inhaler for the time being, tells me he thinks I now have pneumonia, and sends me for a chest x-ray through this lab company they deal with.

I take Monday off work, go get the x-ray done which is literally a few blocks from the doctors office, and find out it takes 3 days to get them back to the doctor.
!!!
If I have pneumonia, I think it’s a little on the urgent side of things that I get properly diagnosed ASAP. But that’s just my logic.

So I call my doctors office yesterday to see if they have received anything from the lab yet, and the admin lady tells me no, and that they’ll call if the find anything wrong. If I don’t hear anything back, assume its good news.

WTF.

There is obviously something wrong with my lungs.
I haven’t been able to breathe properly for 8 weeks and have had a terrible cough that just doesn’t stop for anything.
If they don’t see pneumonia on the x-ray, assume it’s good news??
Not good enough.

I have a feeling I will have to pester them to get any results back, let alone a proper diagnosis and treatment.
Can’t wait to find out how many more weeks I will have to deal with this.

It’s getting really frustrating and I just want to start feeling better.