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My wife coughed for almost a year. A YEAR. Awful coughing that hurt my ears when I was nearby. Never anything coming up. Just coughing and coughing and coughing
by wincy 5y ago
My wife coughed for almost a year. A YEAR. Awful coughing that hurt my ears when I was nearby. Never anything coming up. Just coughing and coughing and coughing. One day it finally stopped.
I had a chest x-ray last year because my chest hurt. Nothing showed up. It kept hurting. For a year every day when I’d wake up my right chest hurt. It hurt a little bit to breathe for almost a year. Eventually I realized if I sort of flexed in a weird way tensing up the muscles I could breathe without it hurting. So I started doing that, and one day that pain stopped.
I don’t know if these were symptoms of long haul Covid but they were certainly bizarre things to have happen, and it seemed like a major coincidence for it to happen during the Covid-19 pandemic.
- stickfigure 5y agoI had similar symptoms. Scary persistent cough for something like six months. Finally got chest xrays. Doctor called and left a message - "we found something on your xrays, give us a call". That was on a Friday, and the office wasn't open till Monday. I spent the weekend mentally preparing my will. When I finally talked to the guy: "General lung irritation, possibly due to postnasal drip, take a sample of this anti-allergy nasal spray". I think I used it once or twice, but mainly it just cleared up all on its own. This was a dozen years ago, long before covid. I guess what I'm saying is: There were a million problems your body could have before covid, most of them not life threatening, and those issues are still around even with this scary disease running rampant.
- Barrin92 5y agoreminds me of pertussis, awful cough going on for months. Although quite rare in the US nowadays.