Still Muddling… – BionicOldGuy

The illness I referred to as a cold in my last post is persisting. By last Wednesday I had not had .fever symptoms in 3 days so I went on a long ride with intervals thrown in, and it felt great I did have a stye in my left eye that was getting redder, however, so I got in to see my Doc the next day. She said the stye was infected and put me on antibiotic eye drops. I asked her about whether I was still infectious with the cold. She said the rule of thumb is a week after a fever. However, she also thought some of my symptoms might be related to my infection from the stye, and told me to keep her posted of any changes.

That night (last Thursday) the fever returned as bad as previously. So I called her office and she put me on internal antibiotics as well (Amoxicillin). That knocked the fever back out and by Yesterday it had not returned. I’m being a little more careful ramping the training back up. I did short easy rides Friday, Yesterday, and Today.