ATS ...Symptom check #

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Happy Holidays to you and your love ones as well randyvs thanks

LOL this thread was funny since I came in after all the edits so the comments give you an idea

Everyone I know here where I live has had same symptoms and it comes and goes. You think it's gone then it creeps right back up but it's not pneumonia they say but sinuses or a cold. Well I have never had anything last that long!

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Check the link I gave on page one if you haven't seen that old thread of mine on pnuemonia and swine flu.

Yeah last night I punched the enter key and sent this thread thru with only a title and no text. which set off a chain reaction of discombobulations. Then I was completely waxed by the comic relief crowd.

Good show I guess.

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My wife and I also had this but no nose bleeds. I found your thread about the onion and I kept a fresh white one boiling everyday. Anyway we both cleared up in 3 days. Oh and thanks for that thread.

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You need to get some moisture into your environment to help with the nose bleeds. Keep a kettle of water on the stove until you see the windows begin to fog up.

Originally posted by shushu
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You need to get some moisture into your environment to help with the nose bleeds. Keep a kettle of water on the stove until you see the windows begin to fog up.

This is what I love most about our site. That sounds like awesome advice and it's encouraging to consider that I am in some very dry, cold desert air. Thank you for the tip. Will do.

Skipper
Hey you are welcome. Nice to hear that thread still gets attention.

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southeast Georgia

Originally posted by blivey
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southeast Georgia

I guess that negates any possibility that I got it from your 4 yr old.

Funny you should mention this. My husband and I both just got over walking pneumonia. We're relatively healthy 30-somethings. We both had colds that just hung on for a few weeks (sometimes improving, then worsening), then the same day, BOOM, sick sick sick. Fever, incessant coughs, chills, the works. Oh, and pinkeye too! We both needed Z-packs, steroids, and prescription cough syrups to get over it. Two weeks after initial diagnoses and a week after our courses of medications were finished, we are over the cough, but the weakness and exhaustion are lingering. It's been a rough month.

And the strangest part of it all--our three year old never got anything!

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I'm thinking that if you didn't have any direct contact of saliva or mucas membranes. If you didn't give your three yr old any kisses or share any drinks or whatever ? That may be why. I'm under the impression It doesn't do well at all as an airbourne pathogen..

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In Arizona,I walked into a casino at midnight,Walked out into a duststorm from hell 3 hours later. The particles were so fine they didnt feel any different from normal air but the next day I had a sore throat from hell which developed into a nasty cough that went away after about a week to return after deciding to make house deep in my lungs. I finally went to a doctor who informed me he was only an ear, nose and throat and couldnt treat me for pneumonia. he referred me to somebody who could but dispensed me a combo prescription for valley fever and something itis. Of course this made me sicker. I looked up what was airborne with these duststorms and pneumonic plague, valley fever, regular pneumonia. T.B. and illdefined respiratory illnesses had significantly increased. Infant fatality had increased 35% since the onset of the dust storms. In other words I firmly be lieve it was in that damn dust storm. I ve never seen anything like it.

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Hi Chard, can you please post some links if you have any about what is riding the dust storms.?

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I dont know how to post links but ill try I searched the CDC AND Phoenix duststorm and increase in airborne diseases. I will try to find it again .

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K here's a liink for you.
I hope this helps. I was the same way when I first got here only worse.

oh no... I am in Australia and I have a sore throat. That is usually the first symptom...

oh how annoying.. I hate being sick.

Hope I am not coming down with anything like you had!

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I cant seem to send a link but what the consensus is that "fungal pneumonia" is transmitted in the damn dust storms. It is also called valley fever. It was so strange to see a stationary dust devil albeit a huge one. The red dust was swirling so slowly it was like a mist or fog rather than a blowing wind. There were 3 of us and we all got sick. But this incident happened after the first huge one that hit Phoenix. About a month later. You tube has a few videos of them.

Originally posted by Raivan31
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Funny you should mention nosebleeds, i have heard a lot of people talk about getting nosebleeds lately

If you take certain decongests, pseudo-ephedrine for one, or blow your nose hard and often, and/or get dehydrated that can happen. exposure to mold, w/or with out dust&dirt can produce a very nasty kind of upper respiratory infection that can a real bitch to treat, and can stick around a long time. Push nonalcoholic and non-caffeinated fluids! At least it's harmless. Also been overseas or the SW US lately? Zones in and between desert and temperate regions can produce very weird stuff. There was Hanta virus in the SW years ago , possibly carried by mouse fecal matter aerosolized and floating in the air w/dust, etc. Fungal infections of the lung can be very nasty, if not treated properly in a reasonable period. They can damage alveoli of the lung and cause permeant scaring.

As for nosebleeds, I've had them since I was 12, after getting my nose broken twice once after a car crash, 2nd after thinking I was better then I was when learning mixed martial arts. Woken up w/blood on the pillow and having swallowed blood a lot actually. On second thought, hold me...

But please if this continues do get it checked out, it's important. Keep us up to date. Take care.

Originally posted by Thurisaz
oh no... I am in Australia and I have a sore throat. That is usually the first symptom...

oh how annoying.. I hate being sick.

Hope I am not coming down with anything like you had!

I can tell you that when you detect sickness in those first stages. Immediatly gargle and snort warm salt water.
You won't get sick.

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A good dose of whiskey or some form of pungent alcohol helps kill the little nasties as wellas a few of the goodies. But seriously, its very good and has been used medicinally for centuries.Also, this medicine which I cant pronounce Occidio---scyllius something like that comes in a small tube and can literally knock the socks off most respiratory illnesses if taken in the early stages. It really works!

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LOL this thread was funny since I came in after all the edits so the comments give you an idea

I prolly shouldn't admit it, but I just now got this ? Ya I posted the title and what ever people wrote formed my opener.