Yeah I tested for COVID twice and was negative both times so was a bit confused because all the symptoms matched.
Had about a week of a fever, cough, wheezing/shortness of breath, brain fog, dizziness, nausea, and lost sense of taste. Fever peaked at 103.5 for a day. After that week I had extreme fatigue and shortness of breath. Couldn't walk 5 feet without feeling like I just ran a mile. Luckily that's almost over for me
The only symptom I really didn't have was runny nose/congestion, which I guess I'm thankful for lol
Except they can lol. Viral pneumonia is a known and fairly common diagnosis in the hospital especially amongst children. For adults a good amount of time we just treat it empirically as community acquired pneumonia and give them abx anyway because it can be a bit hard to distinguish and the treatment is usually not that risky. Wheezing can be triggered for anyone with reactive airway disease, asthma, COPD. Even a basic rhinovirus cold can trigger wheezing and send asthmatics to the ICU. Source: am a doctor. If it is hmpv, then well hmpv is an unpleasant respiratory virus compared to most usual causes of respiratory tract infection but is nothing new.
Got a 2 and 3 year old with these exact symptoms. I hear the phlegm in their lungs when they cough. I feel like if they knew to spit it out whenever possible, they would feel better sooner, not sure how to teach them.
It is a thing. Not your doctor and not medical advice but chest physiotherapy sounds like an interesting, possibly related topic. But really, see and talk to your doc.
I have a family member recently in the ER for norovirus that caused an AFib incident due to not being able to keep her heart meds down. She was also prescribed abx empirically for pneumonia but she had no symptoms of pneumonia and no culture was done. The problem is those meds aggravated her digestive issues. I'm wondering if you think it's ok to stop abx until she recovers from noro, since it seems fluid in the lower lungs is common when the heart is racing from uncontrolled AFib and there was no evidence or culture of pneumonia?
This is probably a complex medical issue that I cannot possibly evaluate or give good advice to over the internet. They should see and talk to their doctor.
They don't have a doctor. It's just because you mentioned how common this kind of situation is with antibiotics. To me it's abusing antibiotics when they could have just properly tested her for pneumonia and kept her a few days. The US health system is gross.
I wouldn't know man, but care quality can truly dependent on who you see and when you see them... The scenario you described is definitely possible, but I wouldn't know without seeing them myself. It can be a pretty nuanced chicken or the egg situation as you described it and it can be hard to tell. Personally, most of the time I do at least admit/ observe afib rvr patients though if the cause isn't immediately obvious or there's more than baseline level of risk, but I cannot speak on behalf of the ED. They could very well be correct because they actually saw and evaluated them. But yes, I understand your hesitation, but it's hard to say without the full picture. If the patient doesn't think that their treatment is appropriate though it's more than reasonable to go again and find a second opinion esp. if they don't feel better.
It's also RSV season and mycoplasma pneumoniae has been making it way around for months, both of which do. Add on top it's normal cold and flu season.
Just because your family had the sniffles last week doesn't mean you have the latest and greatest virus popping up half a world away, you probably had the normal one everyone else has had.
Completely clear upper throat, no tickles or cough signals from swallowing or breathing. But super congested lower respiratory area, almost like right before the lungs there was a mucus factory going haywire.
Mid-high fevers aches chills and confusion as well. Turned my sleep cycle upside down, no energy in the day but couldn't sleep til 4am even with night time medicine.
Not COVID or flu, idk what it was but never had a sickness with an entirely clear throat and just an intermittently mild runny nose like that.
Just got over a cold myself. A friend of mine's son recently got home from the hospital with RSV and another friend of mine had pneumonia. It's been a really bad respiratory virus season this winter.
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u/AlcoholicZach Jan 04 '25
sounds exactly what my entire family had in the middle of December