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Originally posted by SteelWolf By the way Bucke, you in the medical field? You seem pretty well rounded here

3rd semester of nursing school.

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Originally posted by SteelWolf are your eyes swollen, puffy, red, itchy, burning?

They're red, I'm assuming from the gunk. A bit hurty, but nothing serious.

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Do you smoke? How much? Do you drink? Have you eaten anything out of the ordinary lately? Do you have a history of upper respiratory tract infections? Are you allergic to any kinds of food or medicine? Have you had unprotected sex recently?

Don't usually smoke, but smoked 2 packs in an evening right about when this started, 10 days ago. I attributed the shakes, sweats, and nausea to a nicotine withdrawal, but the weakness was there and is still there.
Drink, when I go out. That was 3 times last week.
Unprotected sex - I might have caught something this friday, so I'm going to get tested on monday when the blood labs open.

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If it is conjuctivitis it could be linked to a more widespread infection. How are your ears and throat, any tenderness or aching? Does it hurt to swallow or drink fluids?

no aching in ears, throat hurts, presumably from all the coughing. Sometimes I cough 7 or 8 times rapid fire. Start off as wet, phlegmatic coughs, end with dry hacking ones.

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Sounds like It may be bacterial pneumonia, are you coughing up any mucous? What color is it? It may just be a nasty case of bronchitis, but better to be safe than sorry. Do you smoke? How often?

Yep, mucous is there. It's yellow and viscous. Smoked 3 or 4 cigarettes this friday, seemed to aggravate it a bit.

I've been taking my temperature daily - stable 36.6 to 37 C. Hence no fever.

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Are you lympth nodes swollen (neck, armpits, groin)? Any muscle spasms?

Can't really tell if they're swollen - nothing seems to be abnormal at first glance. Nope, no muscle spasms.

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Either way you need to see a doctor asap, get full lab done and request a chest Xray (they'll probaby do that anyway from those symptoms).

Did a chest X ray already - the doc saw nothing out of the ordinary.

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Hope you feel better man, hope I helped.

Thanks man.

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bucke: any signs and symptoms of chest pain, shortness of breath, or difficulty breathing? chills? night sweats?

No chest pains, no shortness of breath. No chills, and no nightsweats recently - had them about 10 days ago after those 2 packs of cigs and the speed.

Also, I politely retract the claim that you are useless

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Originally posted by ******** Also I'm wondering if you have ever had a nose ring (septum) or took medicine nasally .. as it could be leading that your source of issues may be related to septum deviation. (note this is bs talking)

Fair question. But no, I have no piercings.

Probably flu feat. conjunctivitis, but the strange thing is that you don't have a fever. And if it weren't for tubularbills, I'd say Mono is also a possibility.

I can't believe nobody has said Lupus yet. for shame.

Normal chest x-ray rules out TB or Pneumonia.

I think you either caught a really mean strain of flu or cold. The body typically needs average of 2 weeks to build-up the antibodies to fight off anything. and you might not see improvements until then.

Mono almost always causes a fever. so that might not be it.

fluids, vitamins, euchincea, rest. the usual stuff. Green tea might be better than coffee to keep your threat feeling easy. it also boosts your metabolism.

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Originally posted by Ian I can't believe nobody has said Lupus yet. for shame.

"It's never lupus."

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Originally posted by Ryan1524 I think you either caught a really mean strain of flu or cold. The body typically needs average of 2 weeks to build-up the antibodies to fight off anything. and you might not see improvements until then. Mono almost always causes a fever. so that might not be it.

So does the flu. But he might not be telling the whole truth anyway, as House says: "Everybody lies!".

Smoking, drugs and drinking can beat the crap out of your immune system. It might just be a cold that got baaad. Mono doesn't show up within a day of contact. Then again, it might the one you caught weeks ago.

Hope you feel better soon. Oh and lots and lots of sleep is always good. I say pig out (if you still have some appetite), and sleep. let the body do its thing.

Sounds like bronchial pneumonia, but it's weird that you have no fever.

edit: Did the doctor not auscultate your lungs??

edit,

i told you ******s i'd get it in lazer form

*pew pew*

Since we're playing House here, I really tried hard to find any similarities between Jenny and Dr. Cameron, but I couldn't.

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Originally posted by jennypie Sounds like bronchial pneumonia, but it's weird that you have no fever. edit: Did the doctor not auscultate your lungs??

yeah, they did. the yesterday doctor gave them a strangely long listen both from the front and back, but didn't say anything.

Maybe he wants to make you worse first, so he can charge more later. Wait, does that work in Canada?

Sounds like you've got an alien

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Originally posted by silene yeah, they did. the yesterday doctor gave them a strangely long listen both from the front and back, but didn't say anything.

Weird.

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Originally posted by tubularbills edit, i told you ******s i'd get it in lazer form *pew pew*

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Maybe he wants to make you worse first, so he can charge more later. Wait, does that work in Canada?

canadians are exempt from the occasional medical assreaming, but at what cost?

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Weird

I know! In retrospect, he looked a bit troubled by something but didn't want to say something he wasn't sure about and scare the crap out of me.

But how bad could it be, really?

If it was something worth mentioning, I think he would've. Doctors tend to give you the worst news, so if you get better, or it was a lesser problem, great. If not, you're prepared for the worst. But there are also doctors who don't want to make you worry without a definite cause. On that note, do you have a will, yet?

have you considered it could be severe allergies? such as to dust, pollen, etc. i mean the fact that you can still sit in front of the computer and ask complete strangers that know jack shit about medicine then you're probably really not that sick.

if the chest x-ray was clear its probably not tb, so you can be happy about that. the bad news is it could be lung cancer.

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Originally posted by bucke have you considered it could be severe allergies? such as to dust, pollen, etc. i mean the fact that you can still sit in front of the computer and ask complete strangers that know jack shit about medicine then you're probably really not that sick.

troof .
Though that's about all I can do. My head feels as if it's being gently squeezed in a vice and I have the urge to fall asleep.

thanks for the advice

Acute bronchitis. Viral; antibiotics aren't needed. Fluids and rest.

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Originally posted by NeoPhono Acute bronchitis. Viral; antibiotics aren't needed. Fluids and rest.

this whole "virus" thing is really starting to piss me off. there's GOT to be something that can kill a fucking virus before it consumes all your resources...medical science, hurry the fuck up

I know eh, imagine how convenient it would be if we have the means to eradicate viruses. it'd feel like pre-1977 again.

It's Ebola

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Originally posted by tubularbills this whole "virus" thing is really starting to piss me off. there's GOT to be something that can kill a fucking virus before it consumes all your resources...medical science, hurry the fuck up

Oh quit your crying, you've only got AIDS-Lite.

It's the hepatitis you never knew you had which is gunna kill ya!

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