To: george76
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.
To: Professional
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....
15 posted on
04/11/2020 12:06:43 PM PDT by
cherry
To: Professional
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. Im convinced that its 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
32 posted on
04/11/2020 12:24:16 PM PDT by
copaliscrossing
(Comparison is the beginning of discontent.)
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...
68 posted on
04/11/2020 1:07:25 PM PDT by
Clutch Martin
(The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
To: Professional
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.
76 posted on
04/11/2020 1:24:14 PM PDT by
bboop
(does not suffer fools gladly)
To: Professional
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.
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