I recently graduated NP school (yay!!!!), and started my new job, which I adore (even better).
There's one little hitch....I can NOT get well!!!
First, I caught pneumonia, which was no small surprise. You diagnose 50 cases, you're BOUND to catch it, then I took sinusitis, and NOW, a month later, I have bronchitis. It just morphs, it has never gone away entirely. I'm beginning to wonder if my father is not right and I don't need to take the old 22-cent remedy. (That's a bullet, for all you non-country folks) I sound like a frog on helium, I hack constantly, I have had 2 rounds of shots, I'm on my second round of abx, I got sent home from work early, and I'm at my wit's end.
Question, no medical advice, but if I ever get well, short of wearing fallout gear to see patients, how can I keep well? What do y'all do? Vitamins? Is it bad respiratory-wise all over, or just in the South? I know down here, you get this mess, and it STAYS got. Thanks for reading.
I totally know the feeling. I graduated from a NP program in December 2007, and I have been sick with various things at least 4-5 times since. I think we are very exhausted and our immune systems are down when we finally finish school. Then, we start out first jobs and are working very hard. Our systems don't have time to recover from the stress of classes, clinicals, etc. I have started taking alot of vitamins and supplements, don't know if it helps but I haven't been sick in a couple of months. A friend told me that the first year of practice is the most stressful, and I have certainly found that to be true. Hang in. The time passes really fast.
You can always try Grandma's remedy----an old wives tale at best(we are country folk too:D)---but she would always say a shot of whiskey makes any germ run---how true it is --i don't know!!
I recently graduated NP school (yay!!!!), and started my new job, which I adore (even better).
There's one little hitch....I can NOT get well!!!
First, I caught pneumonia, which was no small surprise. You diagnose 50 cases, you're BOUND to catch it, then I took sinusitis, and NOW, a month later, I have bronchitis. It just morphs, it has never gone away entirely. I'm beginning to wonder if my father is not right and I don't need to take the old 22-cent remedy. (That's a bullet, for all you non-country folks) I sound like a frog on helium, I hack constantly, I have had 2 rounds of shots, I'm on my second round of abx, I got sent home from work early, and I'm at my wit's end.
Question, no medical advice, but if I ever get well, short of wearing fallout gear to see patients, how can I keep well? What do y'all do? Vitamins? Is it bad respiratory-wise all over, or just in the South? I know down here, you get this mess, and it STAYS got. Thanks for reading.
I just graduated in december as a FNP myself, so congrats are in order. Have you considered having a sleep study done for sleep apnea ? are those antibiotics covering atypicals ?
ladybugmo
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I totally know the feeling. I graduated from a NP program in December 2007, and I have been sick with various things at least 4-5 times since. I think we are very exhausted and our immune systems are down when we finally finish school. Then, we start out first jobs and are working very hard. Our systems don't have time to recover from the stress of classes, clinicals, etc. I have started taking alot of vitamins and supplements, don't know if it helps but I haven't been sick in a couple of months. A friend told me that the first year of practice is the most stressful, and I have certainly found that to be true. Hang in. The time passes really fast.