r/nashville • u/MikeOKurias • 11d ago
Which one of you got everyone sick. What is this crap? Discussion
After being tested, I can say it's not covid or the flu but it is got me coughing like you wouldn't believe.
Stupid throat is on fire after four days of horking up my lungs, kinda of snotty but I think more of it coming from my throat than my sinuses and the most middling fever (101F) I've ever had.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
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u/somebob 11d ago
Pretty sure patient zero is the mf I gave an uber ride to last week.
Slobbered and sneezed and sniffed the whole ride and acted offended when I offered him a brand new n95 mask.
Fucker
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u/ASolidSixandaHalf 11d ago
Me!!!! Just recovering from whatever this virus is. Symptoms started on Dec 15, so it has taken 12 days for me to get through it.
Mucinex! Cough drops. You need to cough up the phlegm so it doesn’t settle in your lungs.
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u/MacAttacknChz 11d ago
I'm in my 3rd time (toddlers in the house)! It takes me about 3 weeks each time to completely shake the cough and get everything up.
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u/Squillz105 Antioch 11d ago
I had a coworker come in last week with similar symptoms and it also wasn't covid or the flu for them. He's a bit overbearing, and got multiple other coworkers sick. I got lucky to not have to work with him.
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u/nashtn1776 10d ago
I've always felt it's better for my work if I call in sick and leave them one person down than to go to work and a few days later have them be several persons down!
That coworker was very inconsiderate at the least and downright irresponsible at worst!
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u/Def-X Bellevue 11d ago
Whooping cough is going around. Google up some news about it.
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u/jdolbeer Woodbine 11d ago
Most of us got vaccinated for that like sane people.
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u/MikeOKurias 11d ago
It says you're supposed to do a tdap booster every decade and it's been 7 years for me.
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u/jdolbeer Woodbine 11d ago
Sounds like you've got another 3 years.
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u/LakeKind5959 11d ago
I got whooping cough in 2006 7 years after my last booster. Boosters are no longer considered good for 10 years
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u/Beautiful-Drawer 11d ago
This is indeed the case. I'm finally going to have actual insurance starting 1/1. I'm going to talk to my friendly neighborhood pharmacist and see about getting ALL the vaccines. Lol. I imagine it's going to be a process.
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u/MikeOKurias 11d ago
Pfft, they say you can only have a couple per week but my dad said when your in Boot Camp they give you all twenty at once while you're walking in line. Just tell them you want "The Workz" (antrax, malaria, tdap, covid, flu, ricky crud, everything)
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u/wherearewegoingnext 11d ago
Yep. Same. It could be walking pneumonia. It’s been going around. My doctor decided today it was time to consider an antibiotic and prescription cough medicine.
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u/mem_pats 11d ago
Vanderbilt walk-in clinic confirmed mine was pneumonia. Also got antibiotics and prescription cough medicine. And a broken rib from coughing. :(
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u/Salaia 11d ago
THIS is why I have a healthy wish to avoid Covid.
I got bronchitis quite a while back. ER didn't see the first one and by the time I got to my PCP the next day and got that prescription cough medicine, I had cracked a couple more. I'm sorry, but it's going to be a long several weeks.
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u/MikeOKurias 11d ago
prescription cough medicine.
I got some benzonatate gel caps but no mention of mycoplasma pneumonia or antibiotics
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u/sarcasticbaldguy 11d ago
Those stupid tessalon perles are worthless. It's what they hand out when they want to make it seem like they're doing something when there's nothing they can do.
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u/MikeOKurias 11d ago
Don't fuck up my placebo effect dude, I need this.
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u/DoYouSeeWhatIDidTher 11d ago
I had this last year and got it again this year. Lasted nearly 2 months last year and It's been about a month this year and still not quite over the cough.The only thing that helped with the cough and sore throat for me were cough drops with lidocaine. It'll numb your throat and take the edge off the throat tickle that prompts the coughing. Hot tea of your choice helps too.
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u/itryanditryanditry 11d ago
My Dr gave me some and said eh they probably won't work. He said the best thing for a cough he has found is honey and tea. He wasn't wrong I drank hot tea and honey right before bed and it helped a lot.
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u/MacAttacknChz 11d ago
I do Nyquil as well because I find it's harder to cough while you're in a coma
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u/Beautiful-Drawer 11d ago
Just add some whiskey and you'll have yourself a bona fide Hot Toddy, the ancient elixir guaranteed to cure what ails you!
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u/Dat_Jess22 Born n' raised in cashville 10d ago
When I got Covid for the first time in weirdly the week of Christmas 2020, my granny gave me a hot toddy with extra whisky on the last day she was going to give me before taking me to the hospital and I sweated all night from it and could breathe normally from then on. It’s really one of the best elixirs I’ve ever had. Even cough and flu meds couldn’t do what a good ol hot toddy did
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u/MikeOKurias 10d ago
Gonna put some Whisper Creek in my coffee based on this suggestion
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u/Beautiful-Drawer 10d ago
You can break a fever and fend off some viral things (cold and flu) by drinking a bunch of liquor. You know that stage of drunk where your face is red as all hell and radiating heat? That's the ticket. You already feel like shit, so the hangover won't bother you. Lol
This isn't an attempt at humor, it actually works. I have staved off numerous illnesses over the years by employing the 'get hammered at the first sign of illness' technique. Do note that I am not a licensed medical professional, however. 😆
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u/SteviaRayVaughan 11d ago
At least 5 people at my job, my partner who works elsewhere, my family who I didn’t even see around the time we all got sick, all had the weirdest combo of symptoms. Finally feeling better after over a week, but it was like a mild strep, mild flu, and stomach flu all at once (sore throat, low grade fever, body aches, some people had diarrhea/ vomiting / stomach pains intermittently, cough, stuffy nose; etc). My mom ended up getting pneumonia and got tested for Covid, rsv, and the flu, all negative. She had the same original symptoms before she developed pneumonia.
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u/Suctorial_Hades 11d ago
Talk to all the nasty people that aren’t washing their hands, covering their mouths, touching everything after hacking all over their hands and coming to work despite being sick. COVID and Flu are rampant this year, but pneumonia is doing a number as well. I know at least two people who passed from the latter in the last month
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u/Wonderful-Baby-1217 11d ago
If you have a child in daycare, it seems like no one cared about whether their child would get other children sick this past month. We have been quarantining with RSV since last Friday with no end in sight. This is our 3rd virus since the week before Thanksgiving. We missed 6 daycare days this month before the two week break. Please for the love of god people stop sending your babies to daycare sick.
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u/Beautiful-Drawer 11d ago
Wild. The daycare we took our kids to circa 2009-10 would reject any obviously sick children, no exceptions. Snotty face, fever, whatever. We got sent home, and one of us had to give up a day of pay (only happened once, we weren't really thinking about it because they weren't acting sick). Free day off for me (missed the $, though), but I totally understood the reasoning. Not only looking out for the kids, but they were a private daycare with a small number of employees so they couldn't really afford to have random viruses taking out workers.
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u/SizeAdministrative85 11d ago
My family Christmas is tomorrow at my brother's house. Just found out today via the family group text that BOTH of his sons and all the grandkids (6 of 'em) are just getting over being sick -- some with flu, others with a respiratory infection. Everyone is still coughing, but no one has a fever any longer.
I told them in the group chat I'll kill anyone if they get me sick; I'm scheduled for knee replacement surgery Jan. 7th. Now I'm debating whether i should even go or not...
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u/MikeOKurias 11d ago edited 11d ago
Honestly, I would not risk it. I had two shoulder surgeries and, even if they clear the infection before the surgery, I could not imagine having a coughing fit post-op with a busted knee.
Also, I can hear my roommate coughing downstairs and she's only been back in the house since yesterday afternoon.
And my fever never got above 101F - no chill, nothing. Just this miserable cough and green snot coming out of my lungs. They might still be spreaders and not know it.
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u/waitingforblueskies 10d ago
Can confirm. I had bronchitis when my daughter was born… via c-section. I was coughing up a lung while they had knives in my insides, and recovery was a horror show. Felt like I was about to be that character in Alien every 6 minutes 😭
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u/SizeAdministrative85 11d ago
Poor guy! I hope you get over this soon. One of my best friends works at Vanderbilt, and she said the RSV numbers are very high. Yeah, the thought of coughing post-surgery is quite unappealing.
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u/Beautiful-Drawer 11d ago
I would skip the gathering, personally. I've had 5 or 6 major surgeries over the course of the past 12 months. Would suck to have to reschedule, there's no telling how far out from now they may have to move it.
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u/Salaia 11d ago
Don't go unless you're prepared to wear a mask indoors the entire time and only eat/drink outdoors.
Return-to-work/school recommendations use the measure of 24 hours after a fever because it's something regular people can measure without getting retested for whatever they have. There is NO reason to believe that a person is no longer contagious just because a fever has broken, no matter what they are sick with. Also consider that a large number of people have been exhaling their illness around that house and onto every surface....
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u/SizeAdministrative85 11d ago
Excellent info. I had decided that if I go, I will definitely wear a mask. Thank you!
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u/Responsible_Try90 always going 11d ago
Definitely don’t go. Make whatever apologies or suggestions to reschedule or host something at your place once you’ve recovered from the surgery and the sickness season has started to pass.
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u/PortlyPorcupine 11d ago
Local ER doc. Flu is absolutely rampant and seeming to have significant impacts on the elderly. I’ve even admitted a few people <40 with minor medical history (usually asthma). One of the worst flu seasons I can remember the last 10 years. Get vaccinated and wash your hands.
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u/ASolidSixandaHalf 11d ago
One of my best friends is recovering from the flu/pneumonia. She said it is the sickest she has ever been. She also got the flu shot.
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u/peicatsASkicker 10d ago
The flu shot is virologists' best guess on what top four (quadrivalent) strains of influenza (there are hundreds of influenza strains in the known influenzaverse) will be going around in 6 months or whatever time it takes to make the vaccine. Sometimes they are off on the forecast, kind of like the weather forecasters. Which is why sometimes you take the shot and get the sick from a strain of influenza you weren't vaccinated against. The four you were vaccinated against may help diminish the severity of the one you get, or may not depending on how young/elderly/healthy you are.
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u/Fit-Structure3171 11d ago
Vaccinated Wash hands And don’t forget cover the cough
And social distance when possible (I’m a retired ER doc; great to find for of us on here!)
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u/hootener 11d ago
As someone whose entire household spent Christmas with flu A this year (despite being vaccinated), it sucks.
Do what the ER doc says, this isn't fun.
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u/Ancient-Jello2843 11d ago
i wash my hands 4-5x a day, dnt even leave the house like ever and still managed to get sick.
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u/Limp_Development_264 10d ago
That’s because doctors aren’t reading papers on aerosol transmission and they don’t parse the difference between that and fomites. N95 masks would curb a lot of this - masking completely eradicated the B Yamigata strain of flu in 2020-2021.
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u/I_deleted EDGEHILL REPRESENT 11d ago
Give it a couple days then maybe you’ll test positive, at least that’s what’s happened to a few of my friends w these symptoms. Early testing showed nothing until the viral load had built a bit…
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u/Chris__P_Bacon 11d ago
Yeah, I had an absolutely terrible COVID infection back around Thanksgiving. I tested twice when I first started experiencing symptoms and was negative both times.
About 3 days later I was still feeling absolutely horrible, so I decided to go to a doc-in-a-box, because it was a Sunday. I had full-fledged COVID by that point, according to the test. It took me almost 2 weeks to start feeling better.
It also took 10 days for me to have a clear COVID test. I had actually never had COVID before, so maybe it affected me differently?
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u/MikeOKurias 11d ago edited 11d ago
I've been taking a home test each day for the last three days but today I decided to get a test at the Care Now since I'm obviously not getting better. All negative.
They just prescribed a cough suppressant and said it was probably viral.
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u/soul_parent 11d ago
Current state of affairs here 🙋🏼♀️ Funny how you feel like death but don’t have a fever so your bf thinks it’s lies. Went to urgent care and they said “just a cold.. no chest congestion” but my chest and throat feel like a fiery, disgusting dragon. Came down with it on Christmas and I talk at work for a living so tomorrow will be day three of calling out and wondering why I spent as much as I did on Christmas.
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u/MikeOKurias 11d ago
My roommate has been giving me crap "your don't act sick, if you're really sick you need to be in bed resting."
Sorry that I didn't grow up with someone who waited on me when I was sick. My mom was either working or telling how sick people really were at the ER compared to my sniffles.
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u/RenegadeOfFucc Hermitage 11d ago
Also got it on Christmas, I’m a full time singer on Broadway and had to call out of 4 shifts the past two days…but the group I play with tomorrow morning can’t find anyone to cover me so that’s gonna be fun. Hopefully I’ll start to get better but the mornings have been the worst with this shit
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u/MikeOKurias 11d ago
I have a part time gig as a prep chef downtown and I was supposed to work W, Th, F this last week but I called out the entire week - over Christmas. Which is not supposed to be allowed.
At least the head chef and KM were cool about me not wanting to be a holiday super spreader.
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u/Crahker 11d ago
Fully vaxxed (but that works best when the whole herd does it) and got it from work back in November. I was out of office for 2+ weeks. Vanderbilt gave me enough meds to kill a celebrity and finally got ahold of my GP who gave me steroids, some other med, and guafacodeine. I was 80% better in 24 hours and felt all better within three days. Crap is rough. Nothing helped the throat except laying in the bottom of the shower sucking in hot mist hoping I would drown. Godspeed.
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u/NedRyerson92 11d ago
My son woke up with Flu A 3 days after Thanksgiving and he was sick for 11 days, with high fevers (102-104) for 6 of those. Highly recommend the covid/flu combo test kits from Walgreens. Saved us a trip to the Dr.
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u/Bluevanonthestreet 11d ago
Someone came to our family Christmas last Sunday and proceeded to get everyone sick. This was after we checked to make sure nobody was feeling bad before we came. So my poor son has now officially been sick for over half of his Christmases! It’s really not fun to do breathing treatments before you can play with your presents.
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u/Super-Yam9927 11d ago
After a bad case of Covid last year it seems like everything hits me harder. I don’t ever feel all the way better really. Just lower levels of crappy. Goes double for whatever I got now.
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u/Fortunefavthebold 11d ago
I believe I have had the whooping cough. Been going on for right about 3 months. They call it the 100 day cough apparently/not my words.
I can say it’s the strangest sickness I’ve dealt with. Wake up from a sleep coughing.
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u/whachis32 11d ago
Whooping cough most likely, if you have lung issues watch out it could turn into pneumonia. That’s what happened to me I could barely make it from the garage to upstairs. Finally had to go to the ER at 3am due my inhaler not working. Thankfully I’m less than 2 mi from the hospital.
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u/rimeswithburple 11d ago
I caught something the same week that Helene hit. I was at the cracker barrel and I noticed my throat was scratchy. The next morning I had a very sore throat so I thought probably strep. The next morning I started coughing and coughed for a little over a month. I finally went to the Dr and got a z-pac and some kind of cough syrup that allowed me to get over it. I coughed enough that my chest was sore for another 3 weeks or so. The weird thing is I never felt very feverish. But I was pretty bad off because everytime I'd get to sleep, I'd wake myself up coughing.
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u/MikeOKurias 11d ago
I'd get to sleep, I'd wake myself up coughing.
This part is currently killing me, I'm sleeping with a roll of paper towels and a trash can next to my bed because I wake up needing hawk a huge loogie - the kind you half choke on and you almost throw up thinking about it.
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u/EqualNeedleworker164 11d ago
Literally on day 5 it’s been a roller coaster, Day-1 fatigue, chills, no cough. Day-2 lil better random puke, no appetite, everyone we’re visiting for Christmas says come if u wanna get sick, well we already there. Chills and mild cough turns into the shallowest breaths the last two days. Followed by sheer exhaustion from the coughs and wheezing. Day 5- I can eat anything I’m starving but nose is dry throat burning lungs and muscles just sheer exhaustion nerves wigged out from ever day being something different not to mention 2-very scary mins were my body was experiencing sudden and severe neuropathy from nerve muscles and receptors being depleted. So glad I lost my job earlier this month so insurance bought to be bye bye, fighting it out the old fashioned way, rest good food and plenty of fluids and over the counters. Buckle up it is a bumpy ride, current position no shot bedside holding my partners hand while he whimpers in his sleep—Send Help-2-Nashville, Home From the Holidays, Sick of being sick.
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u/EuphoricAd3824 11d ago
Had the exact same thing. Mid Nov. Lasted a month. I am sure I picked it up on the flight back from London. Tested negative for flu, covid and strep. Nyquil helped sleep. Multiple doctor visits later, azithromycin, an antibiotic helped me get over it. But before I recovered, my wife picked it up and keeps coughing all day now.
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u/missbethd 11d ago
If you’ve not had the whooping cough vaccine, schedule getting one. It’s a nasty illness to endure.
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u/fromthewindyplace cicada enjoyer 11d ago
Yeah, I had that shit BAD a couple weeks back. My whole work got it. 0/10, do not recommend.
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u/spayneuterpets 11d ago
My family has been sick with this since October. It just keeps going through one of us on to the next. My 4yr old was hospitalized. We’ve had positives for RSV, strep, and pneumonia. It’s exactly as you described with the congestion feeling in the throat and mild fever and feeling absolutely awful.
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u/zom666ie_ 11d ago
I'm a housekeeper at a hospital and one of the nurses told me it's the flu going around. ofc there are also some covid, rsv, and pneumonia patients too. I suggest masking up! better safe than sorry 😷
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u/scout_finch77 Green Hills 11d ago
I’ve had one kid with flu and another with Covid in the last 2 weeks. It’s so gross out there. I’m sorry you’re sick.
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u/old_Spivey 11d ago
If you're vaccinated and still got sick for a long period of time, it makes me think that people are dealing with an A (H3N2) virus.
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u/bbfnpc 11d ago
For some reason the rapid flu tests are not detecting all of the flu A cases. I have done some respiratory viral panels on people that come in and test negative for flu and COVID and most of them have been positive for flu A. There are other viruses going around too, but flu is running rampant right now.
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u/TheTonyExpress 11d ago
Oh my god. This is literally me. This is the sickest I have been in my life. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
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u/Greedy-Ad-5440 Midtown 11d ago
I got sick around Thanksgiving. Sinus pressure, 102 fever and flu like symptoms. Went to DR and tested negative for strep, flu and COVID :( It passed over 3-4 days
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u/AveryCrow 11d ago
I'm still dry coughing at night after almost three weeks of some kind of cootie. Had a sore throat for several days at the beginning, cough, fatigue---so fatigued I was taking naps of an hour or two daily which I never do no matter how sick or tired I am---and then snotty head and phlegmy coughing for two weeks. Now it's just the sporadic daytime coughing fit and the nighttime coughing that won't freakin' end already.
Wasn't flu or Covid but whatever it is, I wish it would leave my body now. Please.
Hope you feel better soon, OP!
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u/ChinkyD Bellevue 11d ago
Yep, my girlfriend is at about 1.5 weeks with a carbon copy of your symptoms. Negative on strep, flu, and 2 covid tests. Just now getting over the coughing, but still blowing her nose and dealing with a pulled muscle from days of coughing. Honestly the Mucinex helped make some progress, breaking up the unproductive non-stop coughing.
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u/2639enthusiast 11d ago
I have been coughing for the last few months it feels like and idk if it’s allergies or what but i am pissed
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u/mutated_gene11 Native 11d ago
I caught rsv from my son who caught it from someone at work 2 weeks before Christmas. It. Was. Brutal. Sounds like what you’re describing OP.
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u/princess3mj 11d ago
I’m not seeing anywhere in the comments about anyone lost their voice….Bueller?
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u/ASolidSixandaHalf 11d ago
Oh I lost my voice for several days. I couldn’t tell you if it was from all of the coughing or the mucus in my throat.
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u/TicketApprehensive48 11d ago
I had it, and two weeks later still dealing with the cough and nose drainage. 🥴 It’s most likely walking pneumonia. My coworker also got it and that’s what her Dr said hers was.
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u/alandrya 10d ago
I work at one of the hospital laboratories.
We are seeing Mycoplasma pneumoniae (walking pneumonia) a lot more this year. Tests for Flu/CoV won't pick it up. It's really only detected on what we refer to as our "big" panel, which is super expensive and usually used on critically ill inpatients.
Also seeing a lot of Flu, CoV, RSV, and Rhinovirus (common cold.) They all affect everyone similarly, yet differently. I hope you feel better soon!
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u/onegrandsalami 10d ago
We are all sick in my house with similar symptoms. Deep coughs, headaches, low fevers, sinus congestion & misery. Godspeed Nashvillians
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u/Kkleeann209 10d ago
Currently going through this. I’m talking the WORST sore throat I’ve experienced. && the worst headache. It seems to all be in my throat and head. Green and brown phlegm. I tested neg for Covid and flu a/b. A gf had some amoxicillin and I said screw it and after taking it last night, woke up feeling 100000x better. It think it’s something bacterial
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u/Puzzled_Ad_1767 10d ago
I know a few people who got RSV last week and now my mother has Viral bronchitis and bacterial sinusitis. Now my bf and I are both cruddy and I'm dealing with these exact symptoms and my drainage is so bad it made me vomit first thing yesterday morning. Over it!
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u/Odd_Acanthocephala18 Inglewood 10d ago
These are my toddler’s symptoms and he tested negative for flus, negative for Covid, and positive for strep. Of all things.
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u/Gold_Yellow_4218 9d ago
Same thing going on here in Chattanooga. Everyone coughing, walking around with pneumonia and RSV. Hope u feel better soon. I just got over covid myself. Kicked my butt this time. Not in the lungs, but stomach. Throwing up for days and lost 17 lbs already.
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u/Inevitable_fish1776 11d ago
The damn people that don’t want to get vaccinated or quarantine when sick.
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u/IllGarden9503 11d ago
My boyfriend and I got it too . And like 5 people called out at my restaurant for it too.
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u/__-gloomy-__ 11d ago
I had the same thing! I text my cousin. Christmas Day to tell her I wouldn’t make it to the family dinner and she told me two of my other cousins and her husband had it too.
I went down last Thursday, then I went down even harder on Monday and had to kiss 2 days of work. Did not start feeling better until yesterday and I’m still coughing shit up.
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u/dontgivemenames 11d ago
I've been taken robotussin off and on for 2 weeks now. After the symptoms died down. I had no energy for about a week. I kept falling asleep in the parking lot at work. Hope it gets better for you soon
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u/Forsaken-Reason-3657 11d ago
Got an itchy throat my bros got a crazy cough im doing alright just back 2 backing cough drops
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u/lcwallace Nolensville 11d ago
Had it in November and my wife got it about a week and a half ago. I’m still congested btw
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u/brooks_requiem13 11d ago
I got sick 3-5 days ago, raspy throat runny nose, then fever one day and now symptoms are lessening but it’s ducking annoying and soooo many people I know just got sick. My restaurant had 37 cancellations tonight (many of them called and said it was due to illness). Normally we have like 8.
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u/oliveYouG 11d ago
My kids got sick from school right before break and have been coughing and feverish for days! Luckily the adults have avoided getting sick so far, despite being coughed on a lot
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u/TopBuy404 11d ago
Rsv and pneumonia are going crazy right now. Hope you get some answers soon and start feeling better!!
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u/killerbunnylady 11d ago
I got sick at thanksgiving, five days with a fever of 102-104. Went to urgent care twice then finally the er where they said I had pneumonia. Got antibiotics and felt slightly better only to get a fever and coughing my life away again last Friday. Today, Friday again, and I can’t spare the hundreds of dollars it cost for the er so I’m not sleeping and just coughing my lungs out non stop. When I breathe I can hear shit in my lungs. It’s been a month and this is not going away.
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u/BeepBoopWeeeee 11d ago
I have a mild cold. Popped up on Monday, of course when I’d already traveled home for Christmas, and gave it to my cousin. Thankfully there’s been no fever, just some mucus and cough.
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u/Due-Status-2267 11d ago
Welcome to Hell! Tested positive for Flu A (vaccinated) on Saturday night. Started Tamiflu same night and took my last dose today. Feeling maybe 40% better - the cough and ear congestion have been the worst for me. Feel better!
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u/jimmydean50 11d ago
Whole family has gone through it in Murfreesboro. I’m on day 4 of congestion and not being able to breathe out my nose.
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u/Careful-Midnight-275 11d ago
Yep hit me Christmas Eve led to a massive migraine style debilitating headache for two days, couldn't eat nothing. I just eat my first bite, soup since then and can stand to look at my phone and this pops up. Btw I'm in Birmingham but even in this sub but was on my feed
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u/PabsBluVibin 11d ago
Was hoping to find a similar thread. I’ve been sick with some stomach bug for 7days now. Slight fever and it’s all in the gut! Oy vey!
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u/dandywine 11d ago
I was sick for over a month... congestion, fever on and off, post nasal drip absolutely sucked... Got to a point that I was vomiting because of all the coughing. Went to the walk-in clinic and they gave me heavy antibiotics which wrecked my stomach so I never finished the full cycle. Finally out of the woods. I definitely got sick from my office, it blazed through everybody.
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u/AProperLady_ 11d ago
My friends family and coworkers and residents all have the same thing as well as me
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u/JazzyThom 11d ago
My kids came home from school with it and now, not only do I have it, but it turned into freaking pneumonia. RSV is a b- -ch!
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u/HairlessHoudini 11d ago
Everyone I know including myself has exactly what you described. I got tested for everything all negative so they said it must be an upper respiratory infection and about the time I thought it was over it started all over again
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u/DrinkBuzzCola 11d ago
I went to an urgent care a week ago and got diagnosed with the flu. Got coughing pills and an inhaler. The pills didn't work. My cough is much worse now. I am going to another urgent care today to see if I need antibiotics.
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u/TruckYou14 11d ago
I have some sickness which is taking awhile to get over completely. It isn't COVID. I was tested for that. The doctor didn't give a diagnosis. My initial symptoms were body aches, chills, fever and tiredness. My fever ceased about 2 weeks ago. However, I have a cough and I felt tired. The cough seems to be improving daily but it is still hanging on. I don't know if the same bug can present differently based on a person's physiology.
I encourage you to try to get some light exercise in. There are some problems that can arise if you are too sedentary.
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u/Daffles21 11d ago
I got influenza A from a Christmas gathering with in in-laws last Sunday, and at this stage, I’m not sure I’ll ever leave my bed again.
OP, I hope you feel better soon!
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u/Dark_Ascension Franklin 11d ago
So many people are sick at my work. A lot of us don’t have fever or anything though.
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u/mawgui 11d ago
I recently got RSV, I didn't even know it was a thing. I went in for a flu test to see if I could get Tamaflu and it came back negative for the other respiratory illnesses but positive for RSV, which I thought was something only infants really had any concerns about. It was a rough 7 days for me.
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u/Nickyflipz 11d ago
I had a crazy bug that caused me to wake up in the middle of the night and puke, my wife was hacking nonstop and the runny nose… but def first time flu made me throw up in my life…
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u/TheBorgBsg 11d ago
I got tested for flu and covid and both were negative. I knew it wasn't Covid (I've had it 3 times) but they test both at the same time now. Anyway, i had a sore throat, congestion, somewhat loss of appetite, tiny cough for 1 day, then chills for a day and a half (included over night), sinus pressure and feeling very bleh in my head from Day 1 through Day 6 (not all at same time but over the course of these days). Day 6 was the worse day. Never had a fever. On day 7 I started getting the phlegmy cough but also started feeling better. I'm on day 19 and I'm just now almost 100%. Had the lingering cough with congestion from days 7 through today (day 19). Congestion got better every other day and is essentially gone now. It's been an annoying cold or whatever it was. I only took severe cold and allergy Vicks liquid medicine. Dr did RX a Z Pack but suggested I wait another day in case I started to feel a little better, especially since I never had a fever. I decided to not take it since it can be better to let your body fight it. That said, had I not started feeling better on Day 7, I would have taken the Z Pack.
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u/Substantial_Toe_1752 11d ago
My adult kids (3 of them in 30’s) all had this for 2+ weeks. Negative for everything but drs saying they are seeing this
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u/Ancient-Jello2843 11d ago
man it’s more sinus for me. just wokeup today and felt like i was dying. only one side of my sinus hurts like horribly, crazy face and head pressure and fatigue and fever. no coughing, no sore throat etc but you know sometimes symptoms change throughout the sickness nowadays. pretty sure mine is a sinus infection tho idk what to do. damn you to hell if you go around people sick or recovering from being sick without saying anything or warning them.
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u/AbbyWantsTea 11d ago
It might be a viral infection. I know multiple who caught one and then I did. It’s takes a couple weeks to get over. Nothing too severe, but prolonged cold symptoms. Good luck!!
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u/bwindrow86 11d ago
It seems like everyone has something but it's different for everyone. A stomach flu ate it's way through my entire family while visiting my hometown. Very fun getting a stomach bug as a Christmas gift.
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u/Loud_Octopus 11d ago
Same here in Smyrna, itchy throat, cough, achy, I blame TN weather for big making up it's mind 😞
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u/Lucky-Pie9875 11d ago
My SO works in healthcare. RSV and the Flu is RAMPANT right now. Most people I know right now are sick.
People getting together for the holidays didn't help either.
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u/leewidlovesroo 11d ago
i don’t have a sore throat (yet, fingers crossed) but i have a fever that’s kicking my ass and my body aches all over. when to bed early thinking i just pushed myself too hard this past week but now three baths later and a nose that keeps running, i’m worried.
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u/weirdandpretty99 10d ago
I've had this shit since the 25th. I feel like I'm dying. My ribs hurt so bad from Coughing. Feel better soon!!
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u/Guzplaa 10d ago
I just heard over Christmas holiday that whooping cough is going around, never had it but understand the patient feels like he/she is coughing up their guts, so much coughing sometimes causes vomiting.
On the raw throat be sure to gargle warm saltwater three times daily until better.
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u/wellnowthinkaboutit 10d ago
Mycoplasma pneumonia- I work with infectious disease docs at VUMC and it’s going around. It’s rough.
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u/JPNPC 10d ago
I’ve encountered a lot of mycoplasma infections and patients seem to be responding well to treatment targeting that particular bug.
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u/Fordluvr 10d ago
This is the Year of Lost Christmases for me. Had to miss every party because of this crap. Started with a dry cough and then body aches and a complete loss of energy. Tested negative for strep, flu, and Covid. I wouldn’t wish this thing on anybody (ok, maybe a few people who will remain nameless).
Finally digging out after more than a week of sequestering and medicating myself into the stratosphere. I still have chest congestion and, as others have suggested, I’m trying to keep it coated in Mucinex.
Stay strong, OP.
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u/Beneficial-Bug-1969 10d ago
I had COVID last few days. Fucked me up pretty badly. 2 outta the last 4 Christmases it's gotten me. No other sickness makes me hurt. Joints, ankles, knees, hips, back all fucking HURT.
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u/Cesia_Barry 10d ago
We had whooping cough last year. A wracking cough that shakes your whole body & hangs on for weeks. The Chinese name for it is “The Hundred Day Sickness.” Caught it on a plane from Florida. Turns out the diphtheria-pertussis -tetanus vaccine wears off. Worth getting the swab to check.
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u/Mystery_meander25 10d ago
Me too. Started w sore throat Thursday. Then congestion, headache, sneezing, coughing. Felt like SHIT. Today is day 9 and I’m starting to feel human again. Didnt realize how sick I was and just continued to work from home like the dude that got his head split w an axe but just continued on to get the morning paper and start his coffee before he collapsed.
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u/mysticalchurro 10d ago
I had that here in The Boro a couple of weeks ago. It was going around at work at the time. Feel better!
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u/WorkingPerspective90 10d ago
I have it bc the restaurant I work at requires a doctors note to call out. So the employees who can’t drop $200 urgent care for a same day note to call out, come in and get everyone else sick.
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u/mauigirl16 10d ago
Parainfluenza (it’s what my mom was positive for after coming home from a conference in Franklin a couple of weeks ago).
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u/artrag 10d ago
This was me a few weeks ago, started with a cough all day but I thought it was a cheap vape... NOPE. had body chills and a fever (101!!) that night, then woke up with a terrible cough and had to blow my nose every four seconds. Lasted about a week. Wasnt even fancy Covid just regular run-of-the-mill mouth breather sick. i hate it
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u/stopiwilldie 10d ago
This will age like milk once everyone figures out H5N1 and all the new viruses we paved the way for by letting Covid rip
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u/koalayummys 10d ago
I had this since December 3rd until 4 days ago and I was tested for everything under the sun
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u/FirmDetail6974 10d ago
I hate to be the top of the so called spread sheet mine started right after thanksgiving in coopertown
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u/Plutouranus69 10d ago
Bro my mom has this aggressive nasty ass cough and she got it out of nowhere.😭
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u/sea_bath112 10d ago
Might be whooping cough. It's a highly contagious respiratory tract infection. Because more and more people are becoming antivaxxers it's making a resurgence. There's actually an outbreak starting to happen in Idaho
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u/Jacobahalls 10d ago
Had all the same symptoms a week before Christmas and just got over all of it except for the horrible cough!!
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u/DesignerNo4 10d ago
I had a fun case of walking pneumonia last year and 10/10 do not recommend. I was sick for months
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u/ExtraordinaryBeetles 10d ago
Caught the same. Juicy cough and worked its way up my neck. Wanted to do an RSV test for it but didn't see a reason to spend the money. Was able to stay home.
Some other people are talking about this "walking pneumonia" business, whatever that means.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Dot2421 10d ago
My MIL was sick like this for the last three weeks before Christmas. She’s just now getting to feeling like herself.
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u/imjustwaitinginabody 10d ago
dawg i got sick like in august and i haven’t been the same since. the fucking plague is going around
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u/Far_Wonder_208 10d ago
Currently, there is an upsurge in cases of atypical pneumonia, commonly referred to as walking pneumonia, primarily caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae. This condition is characterized by less severe clinical symptoms compared to typical pneumonia, often allowing individuals to remain relatively functional while infected.
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u/Natalie_Hen 10d ago
I’ve been wondering what the heck I got. It was the most mild cold but enough for me to notice and make me lethargic. My husband now has it and we’re wondering what the it was / is.
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u/TheHunnishInvasion 11d ago
RSV is going around like crazy. Ton of people in my neighborhood got it independently.