Debating on taking rx: viral or bacterial?

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Anonymous wrote:Mycoplasma is going around and is bacterial.

Flu, covid or another virus are FAR more likely.

Says who?

Common sense and actual data.

So, like OPs negative tests? Data like that?

So it must be covid or the flu when it’s not? Do you see Covid lurking everywhere all the time?

the likelihood of it being a bacterial infection is extremely low. that’s the point. sore throat followed by upper respiratory symptoms and a fever is a classic viral patter. flu, covid, some other seasonal virus are all more likely. it’s always possible to get a *secondary* bacterial pneumonia but that’s not what this started out as. throwing antibiotics and prednisone at a sore throat is kind of crappy medical care. if OP has developed pneumonia that’s a different thing and he should go back to the dr to assess.

So its definitely Covid even if several tests keep saying no. Got it.

reading is hard, I get it. “flu, covid or some other seasonal virus.”

So stop repeating Covid like a mantra since it’s been ruled out if you want to be taken seriously. Because you don’t come across as very serious.

are you this annoying in real life? the point is that it is most likely a virus that like other viruses you just wait out.

Are you? It may be a virus but continually bringing up the virus it isn’t is weird.

[Anonymous]

Three kids in my dd’s class have been diagnosed with walking pneumonia in the last couple of weeks. It’s so prevalent that the school nurse sent a note home about it to all the parents.

I’m generally a low-interventionist, but in your case with everything going around at the moment, I’d take the prescribed antibiotics.

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Anonymous wrote:Three kids in my dd’s class have been diagnosed with walking pneumonia in the last couple of weeks. It’s so prevalent that the school nurse sent a note home about it to all the parents.

I’m generally a low-interventionist, but in your case with everything going around at the moment, I’d take the prescribed antibiotics.

except OP started out with clear-cut viral symptoms and still has them. bacterial pneumonia in adults generally develops post-virus. and the doctor wasn’t seeing pneumonia symptoms but was throwing meds at a sore throat (which does not exist anymore).

sore throat-fever-cough for 4-5 days is very common for a virus.

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Anonymous wrote:Mycoplasma is going around and is bacterial.

Flu, covid or another virus are FAR more likely.

Says who?

Common sense and actual data.

So, like OPs negative tests? Data like that?

So it must be covid or the flu when it’s not? Do you see Covid lurking everywhere all the time?

the likelihood of it being a bacterial infection is extremely low. that’s the point. sore throat followed by upper respiratory symptoms and a fever is a classic viral patter. flu, covid, some other seasonal virus are all more likely. it’s always possible to get a *secondary* bacterial pneumonia but that’s not what this started out as. throwing antibiotics and prednisone at a sore throat is kind of crappy medical care. if OP has developed pneumonia that’s a different thing and he should go back to the dr to assess.

So its definitely Covid even if several tests keep saying no. Got it.

reading is hard, I get it. “flu, covid or some other seasonal virus.”

So stop repeating Covid like a mantra since it’s been ruled out if you want to be taken seriously. Because you don’t come across as very serious.

are you this annoying in real life? the point is that it is most likely a virus that like other viruses you just wait out.

Are you? It may be a virus but continually bringing up the virus it isn’t is weird.

you fixating on one virus in a list of viruses is what actually seems weird.

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Mouthwash????? What kind of mouthwash? Never heard this for a sore throat.

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Anonymous wrote:Mycoplasma is going around and is bacterial.

Flu, covid or another virus are FAR more likely.

Says who?

Common sense and actual data.

So, like OPs negative tests? Data like that?

So it must be covid or the flu when it’s not? Do you see Covid lurking everywhere all the time?

the likelihood of it being a bacterial infection is extremely low. that’s the point. sore throat followed by upper respiratory symptoms and a fever is a classic viral patter. flu, covid, some other seasonal virus are all more likely. it’s always possible to get a *secondary* bacterial pneumonia but that’s not what this started out as. throwing antibiotics and prednisone at a sore throat is kind of crappy medical care. if OP has developed pneumonia that’s a different thing and he should go back to the dr to assess.

So its definitely Covid even if several tests keep saying no. Got it.

reading is hard, I get it. “flu, covid or some other seasonal virus.”

So stop repeating Covid like a mantra since it’s been ruled out if you want to be taken seriously. Because you don’t come across as very serious.

are you this annoying in real life? the point is that it is most likely a virus that like other viruses you just wait out.

Are you? It may be a virus but continually bringing up the virus it isn’t is weird.

you fixating on one virus in a list of viruses is what actually seems weird.

Repeating the viruses that have been ruled out is stupid. Covid especially because its the one OP keeps testing for.

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Anonymous wrote:Three kids in my dd’s class have been diagnosed with walking pneumonia in the last couple of weeks. It’s so prevalent that the school nurse sent a note home about it to all the parents.

I’m generally a low-interventionist, but in your case with everything going around at the moment, I’d take the prescribed antibiotics.

except OP started out with clear-cut viral symptoms and still has them. bacterial pneumonia in adults generally develops post-virus. and the doctor wasn’t seeing pneumonia symptoms but was throwing meds at a sore throat (which does not exist anymore).

sore throat-fever-cough for 4-5 days is very common for a virus.

This post viral pneumonia is not true at all. It went around my house and nobody was sick before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t take it. Sore throat followed by congestion is a classic viral pattern. Usually strep doesn’t present with any other upper respiratory symptoms.

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This sounds exactly like what has gone through all of my kids. It was viral for all of them and cleared up with rest, advil and mucinex to get the cough up.

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Anonymous wrote:Mycoplasma is going around and is bacterial.

Came here to say walking pneumonia is going around

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Anonymous wrote:Three kids in my dd’s class have been diagnosed with walking pneumonia in the last couple of weeks. It’s so prevalent that the school nurse sent a note home about it to all the parents.

I’m generally a low-interventionist, but in your case with everything going around at the moment, I’d take the prescribed antibiotics.

Same at our school. Mycoplasma pneumonia is very prevalent right now.

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I'm not sure negative chest x-rays mean there is no pneumonia. My kid was diagnosed with mycoplasma pneumonia based on nasal swab. Two weeks later, DH developed a terrible cough, and I got sick 24 hours later. His doctor sent him for chest x-rays and they were negative. The next day, I went to an urgent care and the NP there said that x-rays tend to not come back positive on adults with mycoplasma, and given our exposure, I likely have it (and all covid/flu tests were negative) and she prescribed the Z-pak. His doctor also finally prescribed antibiotics. I don't know why they don't run a nasal swab tests on adults for mycoplasma.

I'm not saying you have mycoplasma (and will not that we never had sore throats.) In any event, I hope you feel better soon.

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You should COVID test again

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Antibiotic resistance is the result of massive overuse in meat animals, and perhaps to a vastly lesser extent failure to use according to label directions. The “learned intermediary” recommended the medication. Why are you second guessing them? Use exactly as directed.

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Whooping cough is going around.

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Anonymous wrote:Antibiotic resistance is the result of massive overuse in meat animals, and perhaps to a vastly lesser extent failure to use according to label directions. The “learned intermediary” recommended the medication. Why are you second guessing them? Use exactly as directed.

the “learned intermediary” prescribed them for a symptom OP no longer has. doctors overprescribe all the time, and antibiotics and steroids can have serious side effects. nothing here suggests anything other than the normal course of a virus.