Experiences with

Respiratory tract infections (RTIs)

Christmas day I came down with this flu thing. Cough and cold feeling unwell but temperature was ok because our immune system isn't good do we get this sort of thing worse and will it last longer?

I'm currently in a flare up, following a hysterectomy nearly 5 months ago for Fibroids and Adenomyosis. They now think I have Occult endometriosis, as my pelvic pain has flared up again since starting hrt. Ive been referred to a bsge centre.My bladder symptoms are awful I feel like I have a raging uti

Since last Wednesday my asthma has flared up. I have been taking regular reliever (mart regime fostair 100/6)every 4 hrs. I have had tight chest and peak flow dropped to 350/500. Although I not making my top peak flow as my lungs are still healing from pneumonia. Now I woke up with soreness in my diaphragm

Hello everybody, my recent Covid trip started on the 24th of July with four days of sore throat, which because of the heat wave I blamed on the ice in my drinks, by 29th (officially diagnosed) I felt nausea, no smell, no taste, horrible headache, cough, sinusitis, tired plus sore throat still here. I

I’m just wondering if I can get a bit of advice. I was diagnosed with bronciactasis a few years ago but have been fine until a couple of weeks ago I have this awful cough I saw the doctor last week and she said my chest was clear and gave me some antibiotics but I’m still having really bad coughing

I was diagnosed with late onset asthma earlier this year. I take Montelukast and use Trellegy Elipta Inhaler. This is my first Winter experience with asthma Since the start of the cold damp weather I have noticed I am more congested, cough more and slightly more breathless. Is this normal and

Since my neurologist retired and I found a new one, my pharmacy is not accepting his order for the buprenorphine because he's saying it's for RLS and the pharmacy is saying something about it is for pain but since this new neurologist isn't a pain doctor, he said he can't prescribe it that way even though

I’m recovering from quite a bad flu I’m having to take antibiotics 4 times a day, now this is my question. I’m having very severe headache they are worse after my dose of levothyroxine which I’m leaving the 4 hour gap with. Could it just be the antibiotic hasn’t knocked the headache part of the illness

I have been coughing on and off for about a month, a few days ago I started feeling really ill. I phoned the surgery and was given an appointment with a nurse practitioner who confirmed it was bronchitis and not a chest infection and gave a prescription for a salbutamol inhaler. Should I be concerned

I have had to put this run off because of a cold.But I have done it and even enjoyed it. Then met my hubby in the pub for a drink.

Hi all - I posted on here recently as I had an asthma flare up whilst in India. Well, couldn't make it home without seeing a doctor 😕 He said it was pollution induced and gave me a short course of methylprednisolone, omeprazole, anti histamines, cough medicine and antibiotics!!! He also said he couldn't

Hello. My mom has severe COPD and got out of the hospital last week after a 3 week stay for pneumonia. She’s had COPD for 16 years and just went on O2 about a year ago. She’s always done well with the COPD and never had an exacerbation until the pneumonia. I know it can take a very long time for the

Hi you wonderful people. I’m overwhelmed by your responses and support resulting from my recent post concerning doctors refusal to prescribe Buprenorphine and it’s moved me m ok re than I can say but I think it’s time to close it down now, I didn’t realise I had poked a hornets 🐝 nest and but realise

I have developed overnight the most rotten head cold .. Headache is really bad ..I know inside is all inflamed I can feel it ...eyes are running along with my nose ... We close the business on Friday till January 5th so a much needed break... So very tired and now this cold to boot ... I'm having a

So when one gets a "common cold," and has CLL progressing but still in W&W, should one expect to get a worse cold than one would've before the CLL took hold? In the 6 years since diagnosis with 13q/unmutated CLL, my numbers have been creeping up, with ALC recently topping at about 30K, and WBC just

Hi everyone, just had my 4th FET, no success so far but hoping my recent fallopian tube removal has done the trick and I’ll implant this time 🤞 the annoying thing is after all the failed transfers and last one cancelled when they discovered liquid on my ovary leading to the laproscopy showing a blocked

Is it possible to have a chest infection without a cough or fever? I've just gotten over a cold (2nd one in a month) and again my asthma is flaring but I also feel uncomfortable/pain in the back of my lungs. I don't have a cough, but if I do, it's dry and kind of squeaks. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I think I’ve got something flu like. I feel achy and horrible, coughing and exhausted. I have been very slowly reducing steroids and am down to 0.5 mg. I’ve been getting shooting pains in one knee and have painful fingers, I’ve never had these particular symptoms before! I don’t know if pmr is flaring

back in April 2020 i had covid the first time (that was early before we knew anything) since then when i get a cold (head cold, sinus infection, common cold) i notice that i feel bad for like 3-5 days but i will have a lingering cough for like a 5-10 days afterwards. i was blaming it on covid and the

i’ve had scabies for the last month and a half, and I have done as much research as possible. Couldn’t find anything that was working for me today I took petroleum jelly, mixed it with tea tree oil, smothered my body in. It sat around in it for five hours, watching the scabies pour out of my body, wiping