90 Day Cough??

[urbanrifleman]

Yeah I'm pretty sure some years back they said Lyme disease is found in many western states nowadays. Back in the 60's/70's seemed it was only back east. One of our neighbor's daughters got it while in school back there and it went too long before diag. She was in pretty bad shape by the time they figured it out and she never did recover. Testing for weird stuff is cheap insurance.

Newsweek

Pentagon May Have Released Weaponized Ticks: Investigation Ordered

The amendment was put forward by Rep. Chris Smith, who was "inspired" by several books and articles claiming that the U.S. government conducted research between the 1950s and 1970s.

www.newsweek.com

 

[Rocketvapor]

I'll comment again on Fungal infections.
My first wife had a Blastomycosis lung infection several years ago that almost killed her, and cost her one lobe of a lung. This was a couple decades before COVID.
She was treated with strong antibiotics which did nothing. Tests showed NOTHING but she got worse day by day while in ICU.
Lung specialist was brought in and sedated her to take a bronchial biopsy and processed for viral and bacterial but not fungal (different culture required). Even though we lived about 40 miles from a known Blasto concentration it was not tracked or reportable in Louisiana (at that time) it is now in a FEW states.
Special settings on an MRI are also required.

If it is not common in your area (how would they know?), doctors will not take the extra measures to conduct the special tests to detect it. Some have NEVER actually seen a single case. Seems the fungus follows rivers from the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and has been branching out over the past 20 or so years.
Sometimes the immune system will fight it off and leave residual evidence (damage) , sometimes it wins.
Treatment is a strong antifungal for a LONG time.

The wife was taking Sporanox (itraconazole) and the insurance thought it was for Toenail Fungus and disapproved it after about a month. Took some effort to get them to start it back up. It was Expensive.
After about 8 months the dosage was reduced. She did pretty good with one and a half lungs, and a quad bypass.

ARE FUNGAL INFECTIONS TRACKED IN YOUR STATE?
Google it.

 

[jxb]

Newsweek

Pentagon May Have Released Weaponized Ticks: Investigation Ordered

The amendment was put forward by Rep. Chris Smith, who was "inspired" by several books and articles claiming that the U.S. government conducted research between the 1950s and 1970s.

www.newsweek.com

"(DoD) to conduct a review into whether the Pentagon experimented with ticks and other blood-sucking insects for use as biological weapons between 1950 and 1975"

Yeah if that were the case out west we'd have seen cases in the 80's and 90's and I never heard of any until more recently, even those are very limited numbers.

Not that it would surprise me as they used to have the SAC guys spread stuff like flu just off the west coast so they could track its spread across the country.

 

[jds holler]

Well, all fungus aside, my "crud" seems to be responding to antibiotics, and I'm feeling better. My chick, bg, went to our local doctor dude, and got all the same meds he'd given me. She's kind of new to this sickness, only having it for a week or so.

Even the fact that there is such a thing as a lung fungus gives me the heebys. (fungus amungus??) We're out here in the arid west, and I hope fungus isn't even a thing.

I think a lot of us suspect that someone is messing with us when it comes to viral contamination, bacterial espionage, etc. wouldn't be surprised if we end up in a zombie apocalypse. Mater of fact i'm still feeling kinda like a zombie. jd

 

[Rocketvapor]

I hope you get better. If you are responding to antibiotics that's a good sign.
Hopefully it's not just the steroids easing the symptoms while what you have is still doing it's dirty work.
I don't buy into most conspiracies.
Best to you, and anyone else that has this crap.

 

[Infrequent Shooter]

I feel for you guys with 90 day cough. GD, I had about a 7 month dry cough. I felt like Doc Holiday. Keep at it,,,, It will go away. And i promise, I tried every damn antibiotic extant and finally one of them kicked it!! Lesson is for people to finish their antibiotics. Not finishing lets those little bastards grow pretty good immuno to main AnB. If you have a good relationship w your pharmacist, they are as good or better as DR at ideas for good meds. For several weeks I was macho and refused to use meds to fight it. I thought that eventually my system would beat the infection or whatever it was. I finally opted for whatever ABs and ran the gamut. I had the cough for so long people commented on it. Cheers and good luck to you!

 

[jackieschmidt]

I have had it going on a month now. Dry cough, just enough to be aggravating.

 

[jds holler]

I'm thinking that this is the kind of thing where a few weeks (or months) from now, I'll be sitting somewhere, and I'll suddenly realize that I haven't coughed for awhile. Kind of like how ya eventually quit hating your ex-wife.

Well anyway, my lungs are almost cleared up, and I think there is hope. jd

 

[Knotwild]

Things might be different for everyone else, but where I live it's actually hard to see a doctor and we get handed off to a nurse practitioner or physician assistant. No matter what everyone says, they aren't the same as seeing a doctor. I had a serious problem overlooked by a nurse practitioner and had the wrong treatment/drug prescribed by another. My mistake in the matter was going to a doctor who relied on them, and I quickly remedied that. I most recently went to a dermatologist/nurse practitioner for spots on my arm and then two months later I went to my new primary care doctor. He noticed my arms and said "have you thought about seeing a dermatologist?" Then he said "I know you don't like nurse practitioners, and I have a dermatologist I can refer you to who will see you personally". I really like that guy.

 

[jds holler]

Things might be different for everyone else, but where I live it's actually hard to see a doctor and we get handed off to a nurse practitioner or physician assistant. No matter what everyone says, they aren't the same as seeing a doctor. I had a serious problem overlooked by a nurse practitioner and had the wrong treatment/drug prescribed by another. My mistake in the matter was going to a doctor who relied on them, and I quickly remedied that. I most recently went to a dermatologist/nurse practitioner for spots on my arm and then two months later I went to my new primary care doctor. He noticed my arms and said "have you thought about seeing a dermatologist?" Then he said "I know you don't like nurse practitioners, and I have a dermatologist I can refer you to who will see you personally". I really like that guy.

That's kind of our situation here. If you want to see a genuine doctor, you get an appointment two or three months out, and go to the bigger town twenty miles or seventy miles distant.

Our local nurse practitioner is pretty good, and we call him "doctor", but the last time I went to see him with a bone sticking out of my ankle he sent me to the bigger town. He did come out to the truck to look at it though.

I've got a hunch that our medical situation is gonna get more "third world" as time goes by. jd

 

[rjtfroggy]

Who can blame them, with all the get rich quick malpractice suits Drs are leaving their practices at a record pace. That in turn creates a need for APRN or PA.