yeah I got over something where I couldn't shake the cough for around a month just a few weeks ago. sinus pressure and stuffed up/runny nose with it.
Mystery Virus going around Iowa
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Wait are you the MN patient zero then? ****, thanks a lot
That doesn’t sound very weird to me.
My wife works in health care and at the time said that viral symptoms going around were very nasty and it was common for them to linger up to a month or longer.
Maybe I’m not following you Cfin; I think it is very likely the doc diagnosed my family w rotavirus and I simply misunderstood what my wife said. Snotty, cough, mild fever, diarrhea etc align. Nonetheless, last week wasn’t fun.
It’s weird in that this is the sickest I’ve been in like 5+ years. Yet it’s not the flu, it’s not covid, so it’s weird for me.
Apparently RSV can actually be pretty nasty in adults even with healthy immune systems. So I’m going to assume it’s that?
All good, you didn’t list diarrhea, so I was wondering why they came to that conclusion.
Yeah that sounds terrible. I had norovirus 3 years ago and that was the worst 36 hours ever.
Could be. Honestly wife told me what doc said. All I am in confident in is it began w an R.
I woke up with a super sore throat on Wednesday, had a runny nose all day and felt very sluggish and probably had a fever.
Felt a little better each day and today don’t feel any of it. Have a few coworkers that had some similar stuff that lasted longer. Figured it was just a mini cold
Felt a little better each day and today don’t feel any of it. Have a few coworkers that had some similar stuff that lasted longer. Figured it was just a mini cold
I had covid 4 weeks ago, then my kidney stones, then this weird cold that lasted forever and got worse around day 5. Been a month.
I was sicker than I've been since Feb 2020 when I probably had Covid a couple weeks ago. High fever, general flu like symptoms, luckily it only was bad for a couple days. Probably a week where I wasnt 100%
Most likely RSV, been seeing a lot of it lately all over the Midwest.
Avoid the intense cardio and stick to light exercise if you need to, push fluids harder then usual, avoid alcohol, take regular Tylenol and NSAID’s as listed (assuming you are able)
Cough is likely going to persist long after the other symptoms fade which makes it sound like you are dying to others but you feel good otherwise.
My 15m old daughter had this last week and we wound up in the PICU for 2 nights after a trip to the ER. She was struggling to breathe.
She had a similar, though not quite as bad, experience with RSV in Feb.
This is exactly what happened to me. Everything else passed but the occasional lingering cough hung on for weeks all by itself.
I also tested negative for Covid and flu at the start of mine. Figured it was just bronchitis.
theres our friendly neighborhood CF doctor!
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