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I've been fighting something since a few days before Christmas. Symptoms of sinus infection, bronchitis, and mild pneumonia. Negative for everything. Three rounds of antibiotics, two rounds of prednisone, two rounds of albuterol nebulizer treatments. Finally kicked the cough a few days ago, was coughing hard enough to make my eyes run and even to the point of puking once. Was hacking green globs out of my lungs in the morning for over a month. No fun.

Noy yet, Praise The Lord.

Talked to my neighbor this afternoon, he said him and his live in GF had the ?flu back in mid-December. Couldn't breathe, congested, hi-temp., weak, nauseous .
She left him during Christmas, no reason given.

His 15 year old athletic neice who was starting line-up girls basketball team, died in her sleep the night after getting a C-19 booster shot. Healthy, never any health issues whatsoever,, gone.

That sucks about the niece.

No reason healthy young adults should get that poison

Hell of a head cold. Had it for a few days, felt better for a couple days then it hit me hard. Had to go see the doc for antibiotics to kill sinus infection and steroid eye drops for goopy eyes. Still wake up coughing and hacking. 3 weeks now and still haven't totally kicked it. Several in family had/have same thing, still lingering with them also.

My son's been battling the suffy nose, cloudy head, bad sinus, drainage, etc for almost a month. Can't seem to kick it.

Yeah, I had it about 3 weeks ago. Went to doc, got a shot, and some antibiotics. Doing ok now.

Whatever it is, it is making the rounds here with negative Covid tests. Guy I work with had it 3-4 weeks back, then my daughter, then me, now my wife's coworkers. Like a bad head cold with the snots/cough, light fever and body aches. I had to take 12hr Mucinex and Sudafed for 10-12 days to get all the junk out of my sinuses. Dodged an infection though.

Oh you all have the flu.. well that is was what we called it back in 2019.. or sometimes a chest cold..

Are you an MD or DO? Or do you simply have a doctorate level degree?

I am an Optometric physician, Dr of Optometry, who diagnosed, prescribed and treated essentially all medically treatable eye diseases in a medical/surgical clinic with real prescription meds like real drs get to prescribe, such as steroids, nonsteroidals, antibiotics, antifungal agents, antiviral agents, glaucoma meds.....

And even filled out Govt forms as the physician in charge of patients in Govt care programs, did non surgical treatment of ocular injuries, penetrating foreign body injuries, treatments for ocular shingles.......

Dayom. Good fortune.

"Like real drs"

You got that right Wabi.

Dayom. Unreal.

Oops

You stupid fughk, you don't think I put that there for dumbfughks like you. TFF.

Primary eye health care. Nothing wrong with that. I like being able to see, although I do wish I could still see really well without glasses. That said, there is a tiny bit of difference between an optometrist and a MD. When someone says "I'm a doctor", they know full well that they are implying that they are a MD or DO. If I was an optometrist, I would simply say so.

I had the same symptoms around Christmas. Just getting over it now. Couldn't hear anything and coughing up greenies. Never took anything for it except mucinex so I could sleep a little better.

Optometric physicians are Drs. The MD pediatric surgeons, MD Retina Surgeons, DO Corneal Surgeons referred to me as Dr and the ER Drs in Hospitals from 50 miles around who called me on weeks I was on call for advice in treating ocular emergencies they weren't familiar with refer to me as Dr as do ALL the city MDs and DOs I deal with.

I took the same human pathology courses and pharmaceutical courses they took and often from the same Drs and Pharmacologists who taught them in Houston.

Is a Dentist a Dr? When I graduated as an OD I had more college hours of pharmacology than DDS guys.

I know and treat several heart specialists who don't do heart surgery and neurologists don't do brain surgery, so get out of the previous century and realize you don't know the full scope of the matter.

Have you any clue how many out of town mds I have instructed in treating one of their hospitalized patients with IV Pred to restore vision to and prevent blindness in events of optic neuropathies such as the earliest flares of multiple sclerosis?

Get a clue