Illness anxiety, I'm terrified!
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Illness anxiety, I'm terrified!
| Sun, 03-25-2007 - 1:11pm |
I had been fine this whole time I've had this annoying cough. I figured that the cough would clear up eventually on its own since it was a productive cough. I've had it for alittle over a week. The cough has subsided a bit other than the occasional fit. This morning I started coughing and spit out some of the junk I coughed up. I went to wash it down the drain and when the water hit it I saw a very thick bright red streak of blood! And now I'm TERRIFIED! I'm so scared there is something seriously wrong. I have some shortness of breath, but I've had that for awhile.It also hurts when I cough sometimes. I coughed again just a minute ago and the mucus was just stained enough to tell is was very very light red. No streaking like there was. I'm scared guys..

Hey you....okay try and calm down if you can...I would call your doctor and make an appointment tomorrow as soon as you can...it sounds like you might have bronchitis or a really nasty upper respirtory infection...i used to get bronchitis bad and would cough up stuff like that, but they should be able to take some xrays of your chest and make sure you dont have pneumonia or anything like that and give you some antibiotics and meds to help, but def call your doctor to get it checked out. It is probably nothing serious, but if you do have an infection or bronchitis you want to get it taken care of so it doesnt go into your lungs...this is a really common time of year at least where I live with the weather changing to get this stuff!! But if you can, rest and drink lots of warm green tea, and call your doctor and make an appt...i am so sorry you don't feel well and I hope that everything turns out allright...but def go see the doctor...and breathe deep if you can it's probably just a chest infection...let me know okay? much hugs!!
Krista
You are most welcome....and you know I thought about that awhile after I wrote to you that it could just be from you coughing so much...when i was younger I was also prone to getting strep throat at least once a year really bad and if I was coughing with it or my throat was really hurting it would bleed a bit....but if you need to see doc to calm yourself by all means go...I do!! And i feel like a hypochondriac sometimes so I understand about getting freaked out...that is my biggest thing since I was so sick for a few months im scared to death of sickness now...I am a total germophobic and get especially freaked out about stomach illnesses....so freakish huh? lol...that is why it is hard for me to leave the house sometimes because im afraid of picking something up, even though I know with seeing a chiropractor once a week and all of the nutritional support and herbs that my naturopath has me on my immunity is pretty darn good but still lol...but I totally understand let me know how you are tomorrow or tues if you can make it to chat...i have been a slacker in that department lately so I need to pop in on tues...much luv and hugs!! try and get some rest!! :)
Krista
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Sheri Ann