I have been sick going on 7 weeks now (already whined on another thread-thought it was only 6 weeks and realized next week will be 8 WEEKS!!) and it’s like I’ve had all different bugs. I have NEVER been this sick in my life.
Extremely high fever, feel like I can’t breathe and I still have the nagging cough. Had the stomach part first then it has attacked every part of my upper resp. tract-almost weekly. It is the weirdest “flu” I have ever had.
I live in CT, but ended up in an ER in Raleigh NC(where I went to take care of my sister & kids because she was in the hospital w/a stomach bug as she has IBS problems)-HE had it and he said they had no idea what it was -”maybe a new strain” because nothing worked on it. And the fatigue with it is AWFUL. That was the worst for him. I couldn’t stand the feeling like I couldn’t breathe. That’s why I went to the ER, but my O2 level was fine.
So, these days, ANYTHING is possible. It is a very nasty, nasty “bug”.
What I meant to say-sorry,still on Mucinex DM-is that the nurse in the ER-he had it as well-after examining me etc., said “welcome to the Club” and went on tell me they think it’s a new strain and had no idea what it was etc. But it was very bad. And the ER was PACKED with people. And it’s NEVER like that he told me-it was Easter Saturday and he told me they had run out of beds and had to use the other part of the ER/Clinic, where they see serious injuries like car accidents, gunshot stuff etc.
It feels like you have pnuemonia-you just feel like you’re dying!The sweating/fever is unreal. My hair was soaked. My sister had the stomach part real bad and I had the respiratory part really bad. But you get both. It’s crazy.
Sounds exactly like what I went through some years ago. I was in my early 30's, good health, and caught something I couldn't shake for three months. Delirium, fever, hallucinations, flu aches, drowning in congestion, on and off for months. When it finally wrapped up, my doctor concluded I'd had encephalitis after a real bad flu, but that's just a guess.
The good news is, you'll be immune to everything for like 15 years afterwards. :) (Seriously, not so much as a sniffle did I have for the next 15 yrs.)
I had many of the same symptoms last year, including being sick for a prolonged period of time.
It was cardiac failure in my case.