Meds

Hubster has been fighting an acute sinus infection for several months now.  He's on another antibiotic again and can hardly sleep due to the drainage at night that wakes him up coughing.  On the way into work this morning, I was mentally reaching for anything that might help him.  He does the netti pot, but that seems to make the drainage worse.  He has a nose spray that helps a little.  But what kept popping up in my mind and nagging at me is the fact that he's on a high dose of cholesterol medicine (has been for a year) and is several months late in getting his blood work done to see if he can go on a lower dose. 

I googled his med (Lescol XL) this morning and found that it has a rare side effect (3%-5%) of causing acute sinus infections (sinusitis).  That's exactly what he has!  To the point where he had to go to the hospital for it one night.  He's also subsequently been put on blood pressure medication. I'm really wondering if this cholesterol med has taken a toll on his system and is causing these other issues.  His cholesterol doctor has seemed pretty open to some of the odd side effects he has had on the other cholesterol meds, so I'm hoping that she'll be open to the possibility that Lescol may be causing these other issues. 

Prescription meds can really be a damned if you do and damned if you don't kind of thing.  And that's frustrating.