AVG rudely interrupted a game I was playing yesterday insisting it needed a reboot, so instead it got the boot.  Not acceptable behavior on the part of an anti-virus program.

     So now I’m trying Avast on my Windows box which I use to play Flyff (a graphical MMORPG in which you get to fly around and battle various critters, party with other players, buy, sell, and trade).  I’ve actually used Avast in the past but it let more malware slip through than AVG but if the anti-viral software is rendering the machine non-functional, might as well let the viruses get it.

     If you’re in the middle of a battle and disconnect, the game decides that you lost the battle because it considers disconnecting in the midst of a battle an attempt to cheat.  So when AVG disconnected me, that counted as a loss, not cool AVG.  BAD AVG.

     Second night of sleep uninterrupted by intestinal pain.  These probiotics are doing good things it seems.  Also boil didn’t re-inflate over night so maybe, just maybe, this Clindamycin is working.  Still waiting on lab work to find out exactly what’s infecting me and what will best kill it, but at least symptomatically I’m getting better.

     Never took probiotics before, always thought of it as some new-age hokum but after this round of doxycycline caused me a lot of digestive grief, I took them for the first time yesterday and almost instant relief.  Last night I got to sleep without being in pain all night for the first time in a month.  Didn’t feel like I was on the verge of becoming Hindenburg II.

     Boil re-inflated again this morning but squeezed it out and only got a lot of blood, no visible pus, so I think that’s a good thing.  Maybe these antibiotics, Clindamycin, are working better than the Doxycycline.  And while they told me these would be harder on my stomach, actually they seem to cause a lot less acid and general discomfort than the Doxycycline Hyclate did.

     Still waiting on the lab work to determine exactly what I’m infected with and what will best kill it, hopefully without killing me.

     I had a boil that grew to about an inch in diameter and would not come to a head.

     I was given a ten day course of doxycycline 100mg BID.  Boil didn’t go away so they sliced it open, drained it, and packed it with guaze which had to be repacked about four times before the wound healed enough not to need it.

     All seemed well except for scar tissue and my digestive system being thoroughly screwed up.

     Then last Sunday late afternoon the whole area became massively inflamed.  But Monday, it seemed back to normal mostly.

     The mostly was I could feel one end felt slightly thicker.  The next day it was back to being inflated only about a third the size it had gotten to and this time it came to a head.

     So I went back to the doctor and they popped it and expressed the contents and sent it off to a lab to determine what antibiotics it was most sensitive to since Doxycycline didn’t kill it, even though it did a fabulous job on my gut bacteria.

     In the meantime they put me on another Antibiotic, Clindamycin, which is reported to screw up gut bacteria even better than Doxycycline.  Oh Goodie!  They also had me start taking probiotics to try to restore my gut bacteria.

     I thought you all might enjoy the warning and side effects section:

     It’s good to know that it is “(rarely fatal)”.  It just makes you wish you were dead.

     Anyway, I’m into this boil for a grand so far and it’s not dead yet.

Bing is, by the way, the Chinese word for sick or illness.  What could be more appropriate.

Facebook uses Bing to translate, unfortunate since it’s mostly useless.  Here is an example:

Nosheen Shah Meherbaani nahe tumara pyar manga tha

And on the subject of clogged pipes, seems our sewer line needs to be rooted again and I just don’t have the strength and stamina to haul a 100-pound snake (it’s always far enough down in the line that I need the 100 foot unit which is very heavy) and spend several hours feeding it into pipe cramped up in a space only about three feet high.

So I’m looking for the least expensive company that can get the job done.  I’m in the Shoreline area (north of Seattle) just south of the King-Snohomish border.

Several weeks ago I had to take a dose of doxycycline to address a stubborn infection.

Ever since then my digestive system has been messed up.  First I had intermittent bouts of diarrhea every 3-4 days, then that began to alternate with constipation, gas, and bloating, now it’s all on the constipation, gas, and bloating side, mainly when I try to sleep.  I’m okay during the day but after laying down for three or four hours things become painful.

Bran only goes so far.  Anyone got any good remedies for this?