I went back to see the NP today. This past Tuesday marks four weeks since I got my PICC line.

The first thing I said when she walked in was “I saw the doctor last week and the first thing she said when she saw me was did you know your face…” and she completed my sentence and said “is drooping on the left side?” I said yes! She said she noticed that several weeks ago and she just assumed that I knew.

I told her I didn’t know and the first I’d heard of it was in the doctor’s office last week. She was shocked I didn’t realize it. I was irritated she didn’t say anything!

So then it was on to other symptoms. I’m still not seeing big improvement with the brain fog type issues (mainly all the neurological symptoms). She said she now doubts I’ll be done in six weeks and we’re just going to have to wait and see how this all turns out.

Which is fine by me. As I said before, now that I have the PICC in, I want the treatments for as long as possible to kill as much of the bacteria as possible.

I also told her about the foot pain I’ve been having. It actually started over a month ago but it’s getting worse. When I wake up in the morning, I feel like I’ve been standing on rocks all night. I’ve tried sleeping in different positions and nothing works. Foot pain is a symptom of one of the coinfections. I asked her if she had tested me for bartonella and she said she had not. So she ordered that test today and I’ll get the results next week.

I’ve also been having drenching night sweats, as in I need to change my clothes in the middle of the night. This can also be a sign of a coinfection or just herxing from the medications.

If it comes back positive, it will be another antibiotic by mouth added to the mix. I almost hope it does just because it would explain why I’m not seeing a big improvement. Not that I want anything else to be wrong but I just want to get better. And if there’s an infection there that’s not being treated, that’s never going to happen!

I think I’m going to have to come back to see the NP next week because of the way my schedule is working out at work but after that, it’s just the MD for me.