Pills or Injection? Choose!

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Have you ever had to make a choice between taking a pill or having an injection? I have. The lingering results of the experience is the reason I'm sharing this information with others. A while back, my husband had a heart attack and we took him to the hospital emergency. I went in the hospital healthy. While my husband was being treated by the physicians, I stayed by his side practically 24/7. I say “practically” because at certain times I was asked to leave his room. Make a long story short, I caught some sort of virus while in the hospital looking out for my husband and had to admit myself to the emergency room. The doctor examined me and said I had an infection. How did I get it? God knows! Between the doctor and the nurse who attended me, the question was asked: Would I prefer antibiotic pills or a time-released injection? Because I wanted to focus on my husband's health and not my own, I didn't want to concern myself with remembering to take medications. So I thought having a time-released injection sounded convenient. Neither the doctor or the nurse mentioned anything about discomfort or other “things” to expect with taking that form of medication. Why did they not say anything? They have their own conscience. They know why. I don't know why. I took the injection thinking, that was all there was to it and I could focus on my husband. After all, a heart attack is a more critical condition than a nasty bug that would pass in a few days. Right? My reasoning? It's a time-released medication. I've taken time-released tablets before and figured the time-released antibiotic injection would be similar. Do you know how much discomfort you feel when when “it's time” for the medications to be released in your system? Not only was it somewhat painful but ever since then, my body has not been the same. In that particular area of my body where I felt a squeezing and a soreness when the medications were being released into my body, that area always feels tender now. Several months have passed. In other words, once I had weathered the virus, there was the lingering effect on my body, which didn't result from the virus but from the time-released medications. So! If you have a choice between pills or an injection. Take the pills.