tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653905118863944379.post1580265555274092244..comments2023-03-24T05:00:21.722-04:00Comments on My Journey Westward: Bitchin'Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15066349224048683601noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653905118863944379.post-41603478592731562452011-07-03T05:59:39.525-04:002011-07-03T05:59:39.525-04:00Bart -- I got 'em! :) *So.* Fantastic. You ...Bart -- I got 'em! :) *So.* Fantastic. You are the best.<br /><br />Matt -- believe me, I hope it's not whooping cough either. But I do have to say that two days on the amoxicillin has made not a dent. That should not be. Even my nastiest bout of tonsillitis looked worlds better after two days of amoxicillin. So I'm glad I made the appointment.<br /><br />If nothing else, it will be a great blog entry. :)Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15066349224048683601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653905118863944379.post-45979528955865240952011-07-03T03:01:19.359-04:002011-07-03T03:01:19.359-04:00Hey, sent a whole bunch of messages (from various ...Hey, sent a whole bunch of messages (from various people) to your narwen account, let me know if you can't get to them.Bart Griffithsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653905118863944379.post-37953923577678148822011-07-02T15:39:19.393-04:002011-07-02T15:39:19.393-04:00I don't think it's pertussis, just because...I don't think it's pertussis, just because the coughing doesn't sound to me like the kind of whooping (duh) cough you get with it. But then, I'm not a doctor, either.<br /><br />I'm surprised amoxicillin won't fix it, I thought it would, mostly just because pertussis is bacterial. Hopefully the doctor can figure out what it is, and get you better and fixed up.Matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00694245381230542392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653905118863944379.post-16563850072240265852011-07-02T14:15:44.316-04:002011-07-02T14:15:44.316-04:00Whooping cough SUCKS. Get better soon! *hugs*Whooping cough SUCKS. Get better soon! *hugs*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653905118863944379.post-10404962960295137822011-07-02T10:19:34.604-04:002011-07-02T10:19:34.604-04:00Man, hope the doctor can help you out. Get well s...Man, hope the doctor can help you out. Get well soon!Bart Griffithsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653905118863944379.post-42757055755102714692011-07-02T09:46:22.979-04:002011-07-02T09:46:22.979-04:00Welp, you definitely got my attention. Enough so ...Welp, you definitely got my attention. Enough so that I just bit the bullet and made an appointment for Monday. Congrats? :)<br /><br />Seriously though, thanks for this. Your symptoms sound pretty damn close to mine, and the internet confirms. I do not want to be dealing with this nonsense for the next two months. If it is whooping cough, maybe I've caught it early enough for the antibiotics to actually help.<br /><br />I quote the very nice insurance hotline lady: "Your doctor won't speak English so I'll be translating over the phone." Fantastic. :)Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15066349224048683601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653905118863944379.post-70024456862403777192011-07-02T08:09:34.376-04:002011-07-02T08:09:34.376-04:00I have nearly thrown up from coughing so hard--whe...I have nearly thrown up from coughing so hard--when I had whooping cough. I never quite got to that point (despite retching), but then I broke a rib.<br /><br />Pertussis (whooping cough) is a nasty disease, and amoxicillin wouldn't do anything about it.<br /><br />That may not be what you have, since the truly horrible am-I-dying coughs don't start for a few weeks. But here's what I felt when I had it--if this sounds close, *please* go to the doctor.<br /><br />It started as an annoying cough but I had no other symptoms--I had maybe a sore throat in the morning that seemed to be caused by post-nasal drip, but otherwise, I felt perfectly fine when I wasn't coughing.<br /><br />The cough got worse at night. <br /><br />Cough medicines didn't *touch* this cough, not even prescription-strength cough medicines. The only thing that provided a tiny bit of relief was real behind-the-counter Sudafed.<br /><br />After a few weeks, the coughs turned occasionally into those retching, I-can't-breathe coughs, when I had to gasp for air (i.e. whoop).<br /><br />The only antibiotic that does anything at all for it is azythromicin. And worse--if you don't catch it with azythromicin quickly enough, all it'll do is make the cough no longer contagious--it only actually cures it if it's caught in the first few weeks. After that, you literally just have to keep coughing for a couple months until it goes away.<br /><br />That might not at all be what you've got, but whenever someone complains about a horrible cough, I jump on them about pertussis, because I don't want anyone else to suffer it, and it really needs to be caught when it doesn't seem like that big a deal. Mine wasn't caught by doctors, it was caught by Janet when I complained about the cough on LJ--so please, compare your experience to mine, maybe compare it to the description on WebMD, and consider if maybe you need to brave Georgia medicine for azithromycin.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com