Anyone have a severe long-lasting respiratory malady this winter & spring?

[southerncrone]

I'm new to this forum, so if something similar has been posted on this already, please forgive me.

My family has had a sinus/throat/lung problem all winter & spring. Even my mother in another city has had this. Actually, she's had it for 2 yrs. now.

It produces copious amounts of mucus. Throat is sore on the sides. Cough up lots of phlegm. Takes about 3-4 weeks to get better, even on antibiotics & other meds. I've noticed that it seems cyclical.
Lasts @ a month, then you have a good month to 6 weeks, then it returns again for another month.
I wonder if it isn't related to the chemtrails, but of course have no way of proving.

Just wondered if others in other areas of the country are suffering with this.
Any ideas on what it might be? Doctor says,"It's a virus & just has to run its course." But has no explanation on why it keeps returning.

[Occulus]

1. A real real nassssty one went around this winter, and into January

I had it, and so did a lot of people I work with (in a postal distribution center).

It's an adenovirus virus, I think...

[southerncrone]

3. What did you do to recover from it?

Did any of you reinfect?

This seems to keep coming back. The coughing is horrible. Can only sleep w/codeine cough syrup & sleeping pills.

[mzmolly]

11. Soak tooth brushes in hydrogen peroxide as this is supposed to help prevent re-infection.

I had a nasty six week virus earlier this year. It seemed to get better and come back. My family also had a horrible cough. Our doc cultured for pertussis, which was negative, but my husband needed an inhaler prescribed and we all had difficulty breathing at one time or another.

You may wish to try running a hot water humidifier if it's dry where you are and/or taking steam baths?

Best wishes to you and yours.

[southerncrone]

19. Thanks. I'm off to soak my toothbrush now.

Steam (showers) hasn't seemed to help me that much. Although, I think just getting under the water made me feel better.

[patrick t. cakes]

2. im in des moines iowa

and yes ive experienced this as well. everybody
i know has been sick this winter and spring.

[patrice]

4. I live in a major trans-shipping hub.

I know two people who almost died of pneumonia this winter and they weren't old.

It's hard to separate the effects of bugs and environment.

[HeresyLives]

5. Have it in Canada, too

Just when you think you're over it, the pesky thing returns. Slightly different each time, but that cough hangs in there. Very irritating.

[southerncrone]

6. Well, this is interesting. I suspected it was wide-spread,

I live in the Southeast. Many here have had it, too. Schools closed down for it. Flu went around, too, but this affected more people. I first got it the day before Thanksgiving & am on my 4th round with it. Very depressing to think I'll never get over this. I am taking antibiotics,2 anti-histamines, decongestant, cough syrup, nose spray, and now an inhaler. Still can't sleep for the coughing. I feel like the walking-dead.

[gateley]

10. I spoke with a friend in Seattle

and she sounded horrible. She was hacking and when she'd laugh, go into a little coughing fit. Said she'd had it for a few weeks, but since she didn't really feel bad, hadn't been to the doctor.

I heard a guy from New York call into a radio show who said he'd had it for like a month.

[emilyg]

8. Add me in Georgia.

Juat when I think I'm over it - bam - it comes back.

[Horse with no Name]

7. Yeah

Started in January...couldn't kill it despite multiple rounds of antibiotics.
Turned into pneumonia which exacerbated my asthma.
Culminated into an episode of status asthmaticus in March. I was on a ventilator for 3 days.
Spent a week in the hospital on high powered IV antibiotics and steroids.
Still not completely well...but much better.

[southerncrone]

14. Oh my, Horse! That is terrible. I'm glad your better, but.....

wish you were completely well. This thing gets a hold of you & won't let go. I fear it turning into pneumonia or plurasy, myself. I'm just so tired of being sick! Guess I should consider myself lucky, at this point.

I thought at first it was my allergies, but it was more like a cold. Then realized it was "something else."

[Horse with no Name]

15. Thanks!

I'll take what I can get for now,lol.
I feel like I have aged 10 years in the past few months.
Everyone I know has been sick..all across the country.
It has made me wonder...

[juajen]

23. Me, too!

The worst is the mucus and inability to breathe. My sister also had it in Atlanta. My hubbie has it now and is on a diuretic, because he has Congestive Heart Failure. I took a round of antibiotics and it was better. I thought it was gone, but in a couple of weeks it was back. I got a pneumonia shot in November, so I'm probably lucky it didn't go there.

[tridim]

9. I had the bad mucus thing for about a month

But managed to avoid taking any antibiotics.

[sandnsea]

12. Yep, in Oregon, grandbaby hospitalized

A friends newborn was hospitalized too. We get told the same thing, it's just a virus. I swear it's an epidemic and I can't believe the medical people are just completely ignoring it.

[JanusAscending]

16. Hi Sandnsea !!

I was very glad to read that your Grand baby was home and doing well. Thank God! I'm still trying to get my daughter to email me some recent photos of Aidan so I can share them with you and the gang. Keep your fingers crossed, while I patiently wait. She's working from home since the baby, and has been pretty busy on days that she's well!! :hug:

[sandnsea]

21. Well they're practically quarantined

They aren't supposed to let anybody in the house at all until she's 3 months, and only take the baby for walks where she isn't going to come in direct contact with people or germs. So I have to take a shower, grab my clothes straight out of the dryer, go straight to her house, and then sanitize again, before I can hold the baby. And me and her dad are the only ones she'll let in the house, although her dad is terrified to go near the baby. I thought it was a little overboard, but now with this OP, maybe it is better to be on the safe side with this crud.

The older one was a lot like yours, just a runny nose and running around the house, sleeping a bit more than normal. Although my son's girlfriend's little boy got the cough and the whole thing, he's 4. Weird.

It's nice your daughter can work from home, even if it means we can't see pictures as often. :( I'm sure the little one really enjoys having her there.

[southerncrone]

17. Epidemic. Yes. I think so, too. That's why I posted it here.

I feared I'd get no responses & would just have to go off in my little corner & cough myself to death.
But, as you can see, this IS wide-spread & serious.

They talked about the flu on MSM, but never mentioned this. Actually, we had very little flu here this year. Docs told people that the flu shots didn't do any good, because they "anticipated" the wrong strain. (Seems I hear that every year.)

But this thing has be relentless!

[sandnsea]

22. CDC - Pneumonia deaths above epidemic threshold

The proportion of deaths attributed to pneumonia and influenza has been above the epidemic threshold for 15 consecutive weeks.

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/

But it doesn't seem to point to any specific cause.

[JanusAscending]

13. Yes !!!

It's here in Ct. too. My daughter was sick at Christmas with it. She got it from her toddler, who attends "play groups" each week. He's had it, off and on , every month since. He runs around happily playing with his runny nose. Mommy and Daddy catch it, and it puts them on their backs. They seem to keep reinfecting each other. When Grandma (me) goes to visit or baby sit, I catch it from him,from wiping his nose. I'm very careful to wash my hands very frequently when I'm at their home, but I too, keep catching it. Same symptoms as you describe. I was good all last week to enjoy the spring weather, but now I've got it again. For me, it's debilitating, because I have COPD and chronic bronchitis. I've only taken OTC meds, 'cause I've had no fever or infection in my lungs. (no green mucous). I have no idea what's going on. Others in my family have had it as well as some friends here in town.

[southerncrone]

18. Sounds just like our experience.

I teach HS & have 2 kids in college. I'd bring it home, then when they came to visit, they'd get it, I'd get better. Then they'd bring it back to me, or I get it from my school again.
It's like a merry-go-round you can't get off.

[KT2000]

20. Yes!

I live in NW Washington state,
started in November lasted off and on till March.
Got another virus the beginning of April. Had serious swelling on left side of the face and back of mouth - they said it was the sinus.
Symptoms exactly like you say.

This thing has come and gone and come and gone so many times I am wondering if it will ever be over.

[adarling]

24. i have had sinus problems starting in late february early march

and they are still here. i am an opera singer on tour with the santa fe opera and i thought it was allergies but i went to the doctor, got allegra and antibiotics took antibiotics and allegra...still have massive pain on the side of my face under my eye, especially when i vibrate or hum into my skull...singer stuff....i am just upset because it won't go away and is affecting my singing. Mucinex D works but i am tired of taking it. I just don't know what to do and noone has any answers...and steaming has not worked either.

[juajen]

25. Though this has not cured me at all, eating an orange at night

seems to make me easier, though it could be the extra vitamin C. My hubbie cuts the orange into wedges, peel and all and then cuts the very pithy top off the wedge. We call them smilies, and they cheer me up. Get only seedless oranges, as you do not need to aspirate a seed down your throat with this stuff. Small ones are very good this time of year, and are reasonably priced and very good. The crop was good in Florida this year.

Also try to eat bananas to help sleep, and I also drink distilled water, mainly because I have chron's disease and it keeps me in remission, that and aspirin, enteric coated, which helps with any inflamation in my intestines. Between the two, I have never had to be on medication for my chron's, which has been a blessing.

Don't know how long this other thing is going to last, but I will sterilize my toothbrushes for sure. Thanks for that.

[NV Whino]

26. Yes, but it seems to be allergies in my case.

Mold happens this time of year. I've been able to control it with a saline spray and an antihistamine. I have an inhaler if it gets out of hand.

[JDPriestly]

27. For the first time in my life, I wake up wheezing.

I live in L.A.

[Hardrada]

28. In Iowa in February. I thought it was flu since I had a high

fever and little or no appetite (to everyone's amazement)but it hurt to breathe through my mouth and hurt to breathe through my nose and my lungs sounded weird and crackly when I lay in bed breathing the best I could. My wife never got it.I had it about two weeks and there was also a part of it that seemed to lead to apathy and depression, a sort of existential ailment. I'm jolly fine now but it was strange.

[fed-up]

29. BF's mom in Chico, CA has had sinus infection for last 3-4 months, same w/another friend's

parent

these folks are in their 70's so age may be a factor

BF has had a milder version of URI-cough that he just can't seem to completely shake-then again he is a farmer and was out in the cold, wind and rain most of the winter

I had a one-two week bout with a mild upper respitory infection but Hot and Sour soup worked for me (and I was the one with no heat in my house during the winter)

[WildClarySage]

30. Yep

Here in WV my family has had a recurring sickness that comes back after treatment and when you think it's done, it's not. I'm pretty sure the baby got it at daycare and brought it home to us. He's been through 2 rounds of sickness and I'm on my third. I did call my doc for antibiotics and so far that's been helping *knock on wood*.

I'm done with the cough and the sinus pain, but I still have a lot of congestion in my throat. I'm afraid it's not done with me yet, and I need it to be because I can't go see my dad when I'm sick, he's on chemo.

[Orrex]

31. If "it's a virus," then who gave you antibiotics, and why?

And I missed the smiley behind your reference to chemtrails. That's a funny one!

:rofl:

[southerncrone]

32. Gave me antibiotics because they thought a secondary infection

may have set up that was causing this to last so long. Green mucus. They did make me feel better for a few days, but didn't get rid of it. So was put on a second round of another kind when it returned the next time. Same result.

[Orrex]

33. Well then, to answer your first question

My wife and I both suffered from a (for us) rather long-lasting respiratory malady this winter, though I seem to have had a worse case, and even that wasn't quite what you're describing. I felt like shit for several days straight, and on one of those days I couldn't muster the strength to sit up and fluff my pillow. It was amazingly debilitating, though thankfully brief. And chemtrails never entered into it!

From start to finish it probably lasted weeks, but the great majority of that time was just the "I'm getting a cold" and "I've nearly recovered from my cold."


Sorry to hear about your illness--it sounds like it totally sucks.

[uppityperson]

34. There has been nasty influenza and a bunch of other viruses going around

Lots of nasty viruses being passed around recently, with influenza being widespread across the whole USA this winter/srping. I just got my first round of throat/nose/keep-it-out-of-the-lungs-please virus, but both influenza and other viruses have been really bad this last yr.

Sounds like you get over something, and then another something hits you. I've been taking extra vitamins, being really really good about handwashing, and have been able to avoid most of it.

Getting your body generally into healthier condition can help fight off the next round of viruses, but it's hard to do that when you're sick. I hope you feel better soon.

[southerncrone]

35. I'm a SERIOUS vitamin/supplement taker & obsessive hand-washer.

Those have not kept this away from me. The fact that I work in a school probably has something to do with it. LOL

Regardless, it is NASTY!