Both can have a fever, mild symptoms, and insignificant x-ray findings. But treatment can be different, right? RSV just needs follow-up, but Mycoplasma may need oral antibiotics.

I experienced a horrible case of covid for a month and a half at the end of March. I’ve been sick from one thing or another ever since. Ive been given about 11 steroids and about 17 antibiotics. I originally had ground glass opacities sitting at the left lobe of my lung and the top right. The ground glass is gone from my Lower lobe and the upper has lessened but they keep finding atypical pneumonia. I’m very worried as my breathing, heart (irregular heart rhythm/ pots and I can hardly walk to the bathroom), along with my whole body really has been pretty much in agony since. I was just in Er and have elevated white cell count. More antibiotics. 3 really strong ones but the lung issues still remain. I’ve also tested positive for ANA antibodies, so doctors are suspecting lupus since my whole body has been inflamed. Anyone else have a similar story and what was eventually found with a bronchoscope? Anyone know if covid is possibly still lingering in there after all these months?

Today my doctor diagnosed me with atypical pneumonia, can anyone tell me how serious this condition is and how contagious I may or may not be? I really don't want my daughters to catch this from me.

COVID-19 Megathread #67

This is a megathread to consolidate discussion about the COVID-19 outbreak. This thread is a place for discussion, personal anecdotes of providing COVID care, brief updates, and professional questions about the epidemiology and management of COVID-19. Reputable sources (not unverified twitter posts!) are still requested to support any new claims about the outbreak.

We will be hosting a new megathread periodically depending on developments/content. The latest thread will always be stickied and will provide the most up-to-date information. If you just posted something in the previous thread right before it got unstickied and your question wasn't answered/your point wasn't discussed, feel free to repost it in the latest one. If the active COVID megathread isn't stickied, please notify the moderators by modmail with a link to the thread.

Background and summary

On December 31st 2019, Chinese authorities reported a cluster of atypical pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China. A novel zoonotic virus was suspected and discovered, now named SARS-CoV-2. The syndrome of viral pneumonia caused by this virus -- sometimes associated with abnormal coagulation parameters, anosmia, anorexia, renal failure, and/or gastrointestinal distress -- has been termed COVID-19.

Despite extreme public health interventions at the first epicenter in Hubei province, China, the outbreak has become a global pandemic. Several factors have made for explosive spread of SARS-CoV-2: the human population is immunologically naive, the virus has a long incubation period and can be asymptomatically spread, and is highly infectious, with an rate of transmission significantly higher than epidemic influenza. Unfortunately, COVID-19 has proven deadly as well, with case fatality rate (CFR) estimates ranging between 0.1 to 1% or more. To date, at least 652,000 people have lost their lives in a confirmed case of COVID-19 since December 2019. The true number is suspected to be higher.

The effect of the pandemic on the healthcare system has been extreme, with cases overwhelming normal operations of hospitals during the initial surge in a number of regions, leading to staff exposure, illness, and in some cases, death. This was exacerbated by worldwide shortages in medical equipment, particularly personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers; shortages are still present in many parts of the world including the United

Mid 40’s male comes to the ED with shortness of breath, fever, and malaise x4 days, tested positive for Covid 2 days prior. Patient denies Covid vaccination. Former smoker, no significant medical history.

In triage the patient was tachypneic, tachycardic, and febrile. The vitals were as follows: Temp 103, HR 110, BP 130/76, RR 30, SpO2 94%.

Patient brought back to room and assessed. On physical exam, patient had a mild pallor, decreased lung sounds, crackles/rales on auscultation with limited air movement. Skin warm and dry.

EKG was obtained showing tachycardia and prolonged QT.

Routine labs ordered. Or significance were D-diner 1057, CRP 22.7. As seen in other Covid patients, this patient has nonoliguric acute kidney injury with an elevated creatinine. AST and ALT also elevated as seen in other Covid patients.

A chest X-ray was obtained showing diffuse opacities.

And a CT of the chest was obtained demonstrating bilateral ground glass opacities consistent with atypical viral pneumonia.

This patient has a mild acute hypoxic respiratory failure in the setting of Covid-19. Moderate risk of death with a 4C Mortality Score of 4.

They will be admitted for monitoring with oxygen therapy to maintain SpO2 >90%. Will have to go on bipap if they continue to decompensate. Will continue to trend labs for inflammatory markers and compensation of respiratory failure.

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The [[president of the United States]] is the [[head of state]] and [[head of government]] of the United States,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Rossiter|first=Clinton|author-link=Clinton Rossiter|date=1962|title=Powers of the United States President and Congress|journal=Pakistan Horizon|volume=15|publisher=[[Pakistan Institute of International Affairs]]|issue=2|page=86|jstor=41392704}}</ref> [[indirectly elected]] to a four-year [[Term of office|term]] by the American people through the [[United States Electoral College|Electoral College]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Shugart|first=Matthew S.|author-link=Matthew Søberg Shugart|date=2004|title=Elections': The American Process of Selecting a President: A Comparative Perspective|journal=[[Presidential Studies Quarterly]]|publisher=[[Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies]]|volume=34|issue=3|pages=633–636|doi=10.1111/j.1741-5705.2004.00216.x|jstor=27552617}}</ref> The officeholder leads the [[Executive (government)|executive branch]] of the [[Federal government of the United States|federal government]] and is the [[commander-in-chief]] of the [[United States Armed Forces]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Fairman|first=Charles|date=1949|title=The President as Commander-in-Chief.|journal=[[The Journal of Politics]]|publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]]|volume=11|issue=1|pages=145–146|doi=10.2307/2126503|jstor=2126503|s2cid=155029239}}</ref>

Since the office was established in 1789, 45 people<!-- DO NOT change this number; forty-five (45) is CURRENT and CORRECT. While the incumbent president, Joe Biden, is the nation's 46th president, he is only the 45th person to serve as president. This is because Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is numbered as both the 22nd and 24th U.S. president. --> have served in 46 presidencies. The first president, [[George Washington]], won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College;<ref>{{Cite book|last=Matuz|first=Roger|title=Complete American Presidents Sourcebook|publisher=UXL|year=2001|isbn=978-0-7876-4842-8|page=xxii|lccn=00056794|ol=24722725M}}</ref> one, [[Grover Cleveland]], served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the number of presidents and the nu

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Hi everyone, I (23F) have a high pitched whistling sound upon exhale that never fully goes away.

It is typically very faint and sounds like soft multi-note whistling. Most times I can only hear it when it’s very quiet or I place my hand over my mouth and direct the sound to my ear. Other times it is so loud that those sitting next to me can hear. I am not currently aware of any triggers that may exacerbate the issue.

I don’t use it very often, but I do have an albuterol inhaler that either minimizes or completely eliminates the noise. The whistling will return after a few hours and otherwise remain persistent.

I’ve searched the internet and it seems that there’s not much information about a whistling/wheezing that is active at all times. I’m wondering if anyone has any experience with this or any type of wheezing, and what attributes to it. Do you mind sharing your experience?

I had a Pulmonary Function Test, and a Laryngoscopy, both came back normal. Multiple doctors have listened to my lungs with a stethoscope, and they don’t hear any wheezing.

I’m posting in the forum alongside a few others to hopefully hear about your experiences with wheezing, so I can draw better insights about this issue.

Background information:

I am a former smoker and vaper. I smoked cigarettes and weed on/off for nearly a decade. I was more “off” than “on” adding up to a total of about two years of daily use. I vaped daily for two and a half years, until I quit my nicotine addiction over a year ago.

I got very ill with a persistent, dry cough around the time I was vaping. This cough was resistant to cough syrup and felt like a whooping cough, often leaving me gagging and gasping for air. I also experienced a very itchy chin and jaw during the cough attacks that felt like a tingling rash on my skin but without any visible redness or marks. It seemed to get much worse if the air was dry, and a humidifier helped a bit. It lasted for months, subsided, and returned a few months later. I had a brief doctors appointment after months of debilitating cough attacks and was prescribed with antibiotics and the inhaler for “atypical pneumonia”. The doctor made it very clear, however, that she wasn’t sure if that’s what I had and that its urgent for me to get a chest X-ray. I was out of insurance at the time, and couldn’t afford the $1000 chest scan, so I unfortunately never got it. I started taking the antibiotics and inhaler at the same time. The cough attacks disappeared within

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

Hi all!

I'm trying to get a handle on something that occurred with me back in December of 2019.

After I was diagnosed in 2017 heavy ascites buildup was my middle name. I would require a weekly paracentesis and each week roughly 6-8 liters of fluid was removed from my abdomen. This occurred (comorbid with edema) for about 9 months and then just completely stopped (like I had another IR appointment for the next week, but never filled up, went anyway and during the ultrasound no fluid was detected).

Then in December 2019 I got a really nasty cold/flu. Lots of coughing, mucus, high temp (101+), etc which lasted a good 3 weeks for me. Shortly after I recovered from this flu I began to fill up again and had to start going back for the paracentesis on a weekly basis. This stopped again after 2.5-3 months.

My question is has anyone else experienced sudden ascites during/after a severe cold/flu? My health before my flu, and since has been stellar, and as of my latest checkup with my GI my MELD has never been lower, nor have my blood results been better and my overall trajectory since 2017 has been skyward.

I ask this because my young daughter (8yo) is not vaccinated for covid. Everyone else in my family (including myself) have been vaccinated from earlier this year (with my 16 yo getting the shot in June). I have MANY reservations about the fact she's being shipped off to school with barely any protection (hopes that an 8yo wears a mask perfectly is her only defense) and this is a whole other topic I could vent about, but I fear that if I were even to catch a mild case of this disease there is a chance (based off my history) I might start accumulating fluid again.

What is your experience? I haven't needed a paracentesis since Feb of 2020 and I am looking to be reasonable in what I could expect.

TIA

It really does, I swear!

And now I’m cannelloni

COVID-19 Megathread #66

This is a megathread to consolidate discussion about the COVID-19 outbreak. This thread is a place for discussion, personal anecdotes of providing COVID care, brief updates, and professional questions about the epidemiology and management of COVID-19. Reputable sources (not unverified twitter posts!) are still requested to support any new claims about the outbreak.

We will be hosting a new megathread periodically depending on developments/content. The latest thread will always be stickied and will provide the most up-to-date information. If you just posted something in the previous thread right before it got unstickied and your question wasn't answered/your point wasn't discussed, feel free to repost it in the latest one. If the active COVID megathread isn't stickied, please notify the moderators by modmail with a link to the thread.

Background and summary

On December 31st 2019, Chinese authorities reported a cluster of atypical pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China. A novel zoonotic virus was suspected and discovered, now named SARS-CoV-2. The syndrome of viral pneumonia caused by this virus -- sometimes associated with abnormal coagulation parameters, anosmia, anorexia, renal failure, and/or gastrointestinal distress -- has been termed COVID-19.

Despite extreme public health interventions at the first epicenter in Hubei province, China, the outbreak has become a global pandemic. Several factors have made for explosive spread of SARS-CoV-2: the human population is immunologically naive, the virus has a long incubation period and can be asymptomatically spread, and is highly infectious, with an rate of transmission significantly higher than epidemic influenza. Unfortunately, COVID-19 has proven deadly as well, with case fatality rate (CFR) estimates ranging between 0.1 to 1% or more. To date, at least 652,000 people have lost their lives in a confirmed case of COVID-19 since December 2019. The true number is suspected to be higher.

The effect of the pandemic on the healthcare system has been extreme, with cases overwhelming normal operations of hospitals during the initial surge in a number of regions, leading to staff exposure, illness, and in some cases, death. This was exacerbated by worldwide shortages in medical equipment, particularly personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers; shortages are still present in many parts of the world including the United

COVID-19 Megathread 64

This is a megathread to consolidate discussion about the COVID-19 outbreak. This thread is a place for discussion, personal anecdotes of providing COVID care, brief updates, and professional questions about the epidemiology and management of COVID-19. Reputable sources (not unverified twitter posts!) are still requested to support any new claims about the outbreak.

We will be hosting a new megathread periodically depending on developments/content. The latest thread will always be stickied and will provide the most up-to-date information. If you just posted something in the previous thread right before it got unstickied and your question wasn't answered/your point wasn't discussed, feel free to repost it in the latest one. If the active COVID megathread isn't stickied, please notify the moderators by modmail with a link to the thread.

Background and summary

On December 31st 2019, Chinese authorities reported a cluster of atypical pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China. A novel zoonotic virus was suspected and discovered, now named SARS-CoV-2. The syndrome of viral pneumonia caused by this virus -- sometimes associated with abnormal coagulation parameters, anosmia, anorexia, renal failure, and/or gastrointestinal distress -- has been termed COVID-19.

Despite extreme public health interventions at the first epicenter in Hubei province, China, the outbreak has become a global pandemic. Several factors have made for explosive spread of SARS-CoV-2: the human population is immunologically naive, the virus has a long incubation period and can be asymptomatically spread, and is highly infectious, with an rate of transmission significantly higher than epidemic influenza. Unfortunately, COVID-19 has proven deadly as well, with case fatality rate (CFR) estimates ranging between 0.1 to 1% or more. To date, at least 652,000 people have lost their lives in a confirmed case of COVID-19 since December 2019. The true number is suspected to be higher.

The effect of the pandemic on the healthcare system has been extreme, with cases overwhelming normal operations of hospitals during the initial surge in a number of regions, leading to staff exposure, illness, and in some cases, death. This was exacerbated by worldwide shortages in medical equipment, particularly personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers; shortages are still present in many parts of the world including the Unite

COVID-19 Megathread 65

This is a megathread to consolidate discussion about the COVID-19 outbreak. This thread is a place for discussion, personal anecdotes of providing COVID care, brief updates, and professional questions about the epidemiology and management of COVID-19. Reputable sources (not unverified twitter posts!) are still requested to support any new claims about the outbreak.

We will be hosting a new megathread periodically depending on developments/content. The latest thread will always be stickied and will provide the most up-to-date information. If you just posted something in the previous thread right before it got unstickied and your question wasn't answered/your point wasn't discussed, feel free to repost it in the latest one. If the active COVID megathread isn't stickied, please notify the moderators by modmail with a link to the thread.

Background and summary

On December 31st 2019, Chinese authorities reported a cluster of atypical pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China. A novel zoonotic virus was suspected and discovered, now named SARS-CoV-2. The syndrome of viral pneumonia caused by this virus -- sometimes associated with abnormal coagulation parameters, anosmia, anorexia, renal failure, and/or gastrointestinal distress -- has been termed COVID-19.

Despite extreme public health interventions at the first epicenter in Hubei province, China, the outbreak has become a global pandemic. Several factors have made for explosive spread of SARS-CoV-2: the human population is immunologically naive, the virus has a long incubation period and can be asymptomatically spread, and is highly infectious, with an rate of transmission significantly higher than epidemic influenza. Unfortunately, COVID-19 has proven deadly as well, with case fatality rate (CFR) estimates ranging between 0.1 to 1% or more. To date, at least 652,000 people have lost their lives in a confirmed case of COVID-19 since December 2019. The true number is suspected to be higher.

The effect of the pandemic on the healthcare system has been extreme, with cases overwhelming normal operations of hospitals during the initial surge in a number of regions, leading to staff exposure, illness, and in some cases, death. This was exacerbated by worldwide shortages in medical equipment, particularly personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers; shortages are still present in many parts of the world including the Unite

COVID-19 Megathread 63

This is a megathread to consolidate discussion about the COVID-19 outbreak. This thread is a place for discussion, personal anecdotes of providing COVID care, brief updates, and professional questions about the epidemiology and management of COVID-19. Reputable sources (not unverified twitter posts!) are still requested to support any new claims about the outbreak.

We will be hosting a new megathread periodically depending on developments/content. The latest thread will always be stickied and will provide the most up-to-date information. If you just posted something in the previous thread right before it got unstickied and your question wasn't answered/your point wasn't discussed, feel free to repost it in the latest one. If the active COVID megathread isn't stickied, please notify the moderators by modmail with a link to the thread.

Background and summary

On December 31st 2019, Chinese authorities reported a cluster of atypical pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China. A novel zoonotic virus was suspected and discovered, now named SARS-CoV-2. The syndrome of viral pneumonia caused by this virus -- sometimes associated with abnormal coagulation parameters, anosmia, anorexia, renal failure, and/or gastrointestinal distress -- has been termed COVID-19.

Despite extreme public health interventions at the first epicenter in Hubei province, China, the outbreak has become a global pandemic. Several factors have made for explosive spread of SARS-CoV-2: the human population is immunologically naive, the virus has a long incubation period and can be asymptomatically spread, and is highly infectious, with an rate of transmission significantly higher than epidemic influenza. Unfortunately, COVID-19 has proven deadly as well, with case fatality rate (CFR) estimates ranging between 0.1 to 1% or more. To date, at least 652,000 people have lost their lives in a confirmed case of COVID-19 since December 2019. The true number is suspected to be higher.

The effect of the pandemic on the healthcare system has been extreme, with cases overwhelming normal operations of hospitals during the initial surge in a number of regions, leading to staff exposure, illness, and in some cases, death. This was exacerbated by worldwide shortages in medical equipment, particularly personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers; shortages are still present in many parts of the world including the Unite