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Everyone in our social circle got it, and we continued to party on, holiday parties. Finally ran the course by early January.

I’m convinced that it’s related.

I had a youngish patient....slightly overweight and a smoker....

but she never needed oxygen at home...

she did not have the flu...

she had a severe harsh cough and her oxygen needs increased and it was difficult to discharge her without oxygen....finally we did but her oxygen sats were still very borderline....

she presented as a very sick person but there was no clear diagnosis why....

I visited Hawaii during Halloween. A flu/cold hit the big island hard, spread fast and hard. I got it from my Sister while visiting her. I brought it home to Tacoma, my whole family got sick. I had it twice and I never get sick. Everyone in our social circle got it, and we continued to party on, holiday parties. Finally ran the course by early January. I’m convinced that it’s related.

I work in Tacoma and live outside of Tacoma and in early January I came down with a terrible cough and could not breath deeply and certainly could not laugh.

With that said, I hardly ever get sick and when I do it presents as gastro-intestinal and really cannot remember the last time I had a cough of any sort in a sick/ongoing way.

So this cough lasted a good three weeks and would wake me up at night and I didn't ever take my temperature but stayed home from work a couple days because I didn't feel well at all generally. Real fuzzy in the head which was weird for me.

So after three weeks this cough went away and I felt pretty normal then about 5 days later, I had a terrible tightness in my chest and a little bit of restricted breathing. After about 10 days of that nonsense, I finally went into the urgent care clinic and they told me "you and everyone else around here has that same thing". They prescribed an albuterol (sp?) inhaler and a Z-pack which seemed to do the trick for the most part. Still feel a little bit of restricted breathing but I'm chalking that up to allergies at this point.

I am generally a pretty healthy individual with some hypertension (take lisinopril) but take a lot of vitamins including Emegenc-C and I'm closing in on 60 years old this year so I probably should be more careful...lol

Three or four years ago I got the crud that Thanksgiving and I think I had it all the way until April and even had a CT scan because of it. And after Albuterol it seemed to clear up during the pulmonary tests which indicated I did not have a COPD. But yeah I had some nasty crud about 3 years ago maybe four... I wonder...

We had it, too, in So Cal, and I’ve heard people on Talk Radio talking about it. End of Dec/ Jan here - really bad flu but quite odd. Dry cough that just never stopped. And we only have 200 deaths in LA County this whole WuFlu ‘epidemic’. Stanford U is studying it, so it’s not that far off.

Same here. I got sick around Thanksgiving - low grade fever, lung issues and a horrible dry hacking cough that lasted almost 3 months. My dr did a throat culture but nothing showed up.

I will call them tomorrow and see if he can check me for anything now.