As some of you will know I was taken to A & E on xmas eve with this bug causing severe breathing problems. Hubby has now caught it and he ended up in A & E last night, he rarely gets anything but it knocked him for six, he is now home. We have been told that it is a particular bad virus and if you have any breathing problems, tightness in the chest AF going haywire to get help quickly. So be careful if you have asthma, copd or other lung issued, AF or HF. Take care all.
Cassie
This is a very timely message. I am surprised by how many people around here have awful viral infections.
Last Easter I caught the Coughing Virus. I was so ill that I was kept in hospital for 2 whole months. The Ambulance Man told me that the same virus had floored him for 3 weeks.
Oh bless you Cassie. I hope that you and hubby are on the mend.
Thank you for the warning and a Happy and healthy New Year to you both.
Thank you for the warning Cassie. I do hope you and hubby feel much better soon x
Did you not have the flu jab or is this a new un known virus Cassie?
Yes Bob we both had the flu jab at the beginning of October. We both ended up at the GP surgery this morning - my breathing bad again - she used the nebulizer on both of us and put me on antibiotics and more steroid tablets and upped hubby's steroid tabs. She looked at our hospital tests results both indicate viral infection, she said there is a nasty bug going around, we were asked at the hospital if we had been in contact with anyone recently returned from abroad (answer no). I think my GP is just throwing everything at it to get rid of it!!
Cassie
Try NAC - N Acetyl Cystiene . This fluidifies phlegm so as to make coughing it up much easier. It also helps the immune system so helps stop you catching things in the first place . It is sold in the chemists here in France for respiratory infections. We take it every day so get it on internet. I have not had a cold or flu since March 2016 nor has husband . You could probably get it at Holland and Barrett.
We have got it 😦 I struggled on with terrible cough and bouts of asthma but finally got to see a doc at the last minute on Friday when an infection developed. I had been reluctant to go because last year when I had a bad virus, asthma with cough and infection my new GP wouldn't give me anything - after I gave her the death stare she reluctantly prescribed an antibiotic 'for if I got worse' which I took immediately of course. She was testing me for status asthmaticus which would already have had me in A&E 😡 So I decided to take preemptive action and made an appointment in autumn with my asthma nurse, didn't complain in so many words but I knew she'd had the same problem and would sympathise. Anyway I was lucky as the duty doc was my old one who knows I'm stoic and dished out antibiotics and steroids very promptly. Asthma is right up there with AF as something GPs can be very ignorant about 😠
Thanks for the warning and hope you and hubby are recovering well.
Hi, Buffafly , cassie46
I give my doctor a "death stare" if they try to give me antibiotics.
Can you tell us which part(s) of the country are affected by this bug?
I live in the Southwest. I am not an antibiotic enthusiast at all but if you have been awake coughing and struggling to breathe every night for a week and then get an infection as well that is quite persuasive 😊 Kept me out of A&E too which is where I would have ended up and if you think what that costs the NHS it seems best to take your GPs advice. Based on my symptoms and the overdose of inhaler I was taking the previous year I should have gone to A&E over the weekend hence my annoyance when it wasn't appreciated 🙄
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