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California students will now be required to get vaccinated before going back to school.

It's turning out to be a wide spread epidemic.

I'm just getting over it my self, caught or picked it up from some damn instructor at a Union Safety Class that couldn't bother staying home when sick!

I've Never had anything like it... an uncontrollable continuous cough that keeps you from any rest.

No congestion, nothing to cough up, but just a harsh cough that even keeps you from being able to lie down.

Make it pretty difficult to breath in some also.

Adults that are catching it, are taking it back to their kids at home which don't handle it well.

I think we've had 10 or so baby's die from it so far this year.


Phil

Sorry to hear that. Hope you are recovering.

I fear what diseases lurk out there for our future because we have over medicated the population at large with antibiotics. Whooping cough will kill a child, especially an infant. So sorry to hear you have been ill.

Can't argue with that. It seems sometimes the antibiotics are more dangerous than the disease.

Wife's BIL had it about a year ago.. Bad stuff.. Glad you're on the mend..

i will argue with that though i see many patients mistreated by doc's treating outside their specialty. this will increase as the govt and insurance co's want family doc's to treat everything and resist clearing pt's seeing a specialist. i think a bigger problem is our gov't not protecting us from diseases brought in by aliens. the border states are in real danger from TB and other diseases.

I've had whooping cough as an adult. I was really a mess for about four weeks. About the time I turned the corner, and started feeling better, my physician son cheerfully opined, "Hey, Dad, I think you've got whooping cough. It's bacterial. A good antibiotic will clean it up for you." Yeah, just when I needed it.

Anyway, go see the doc. You don't have to tough it out.

It's clear that our childhood immunizations don't last forever.

I've pretty much been over it for a couple weeks now, except for a slight lingering cough. Don't know how long the contagious cycle last!

But for about 2 day's it felt like I was coming down with a cold or possible the flu, aching all over, back-aching, and head aches.

After a couple day's I felt just fine, but acquired the cough from a scratchy throat.

I've never had a cough like this, a deep harsh cough, one that hurt, but yet no congestion, and one that you couldn't go more than 30 seconds without coughing.

And when the coughing started you either had to sit or stand up, it would just take your breath away...

Didn't get any sleep what so ever for nearly a week, and when the cough finally did start to subside I was lucky to get more than just a few hours at a time.

Then after about 3 weeks it took it's toll, and I slept nearly 14 hours straight through... but still had a nuisance cough for another couple weeks.

I didn't go to the doctor, but called him with what was going on after the first week.

I went through a full 2 week course of antibiotics, and it still took nearly 6 weeks to pull through it all.


Phil

you can thank the parents that think vaccination is evil for whooping cough coming back in full force........

My son picked it up during our two-year stint in S. Korea. He was 11 years old and had it for six months. Had uncontrollable fits of coughing that ended when he threw up. Then it would start all over again. Had him into the docs constantly and all would first verify he had his pertussis shot as an infant. Finally a nurse told the doc to just treat him for whooping cough. He did and it was over in about two weeks.

Immunizations are not a guarantee!

Just get a tetanus shot. The new ones are stacked with the whooping cough vaccine. Just had a baby in December, and the docs told us we all needed to update our tetanus.

Well that's interesting. Who would have thought.

A vaccine won't do any good if you've already got it, or have been exposed to it.

Antibiotics, and if you have it, take precautions to keep from spreading it to others.

Phil

Thanks for the advice Phil.

+1000. You should hear the lunacy.... lotsa folks don't read history, particularly when it comes to all the kids who used to die of Pertussis.

Yep

I had it, My wife had it and my son had it all about at the same time about 2 years ago.... Took around 3 months to finally stop coughing completly. My son was 7 at the time... sure am glad he did not get it as an infant.

It is running around like crazy from what the doctor told us a few years ago...

And all the undocumented folks coming up from Mexico!

I had something from Jan to April. Long time to cough.
Whatever it was, my one year old grandaughter was the wonderful person to give it to myself and my wife.

Rattler you are FOS. You are talking out your @$$. The infection rates are the same in counties in CA whether vaccine rates are high or low. Waning immunity is the reason. Why are they vaccinating all kids again after summer, not just the ones with philosophical or religious exemptions? Vaccination does not equal life-long protection from disease, none of them are, that is why it is coming back around in full force. And we will see more of it in the future. If health officials would require everyone to come back and undergo follow-up blood titers, you would be ph'ing shocked at how many have lost the immune response after as little as 6 months. Except that would cost too much and its too complicated to explain to the masses and expect compliance, nor would vaccine makers want that kind of information out there. Its just too easy for people like you to blame those with a brain in their head who opt out of some that are unnecessary or delay some shots or spread them out so kids aren't getting walloped with that much crap in their system at once. I am not a complete hater, but I am also not a blind follower, and people need to go into this with their eyes open.