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My cough isn’t that bad (my headache is worse) and I don’t have fever. I went to a garden center and noted I was a little unsteady on my feet

I’m a holistic healer and Doctor of Traditional Inuit Medicine. Based on your results I would recommend burning sage and eating a eucalyptus candle. Even the wick.

My DOCTOR is out of the office until Wednesday

Have you been anywhere near the IML festivities? Sounds like monkeypox.

I am a licensed lab scientist. I hate to break it to you but Mycobacterium Avium Intracecellulare is a common bacterial infection in HIV/AIDS patients.

My recommendation is to get tested for HIV before this escalates further. If positive which I assume you most likely will be stay on your meds so you can have a low non detectable viral load. I’d hate to see someone in this day and age expire before their time.

Most people with mycobacterium avium intracellulare are elderly. In fact, it was ridiculously called “Lady Windermere syndrome” because most of the patients were elderly white women who didn’t cough because it wasn’t “proper.” Since they didn’t cough, mucus stayed in their lungs and trapped bacteria, making them susceptible to infection.

There is supposedly a typical morphology of patient: female, over 65, tall and thin.

But as time goes on, more people of different gender and body morphology are being diagnosed, though as of now the most frequently diagnosed individuals are elderly white females.

If you've been positive for MAI before, you should have been on rifabutin as prophylaxis ever since. Since you're showing some signs of disseminated disease with the night sweats, fevers and so forth, you might need some additional drugs, especially if a chest xray shows some sign of lung involvement. These are usually lifetime drugs, unless your immune system gets back up and running in short order.

My bad, *doctors believed” elderly woman didn’t cough because it “wasn’t proper.”

There are multiple reasons for suppressing cough. One is that elderly women tend to have stress in continence with frequent deep coughing, so they avoid it.

Another reason is because post-menopausal women are easily dehydrated, which causes dry, I lacked mucus.

And there is an autoimmune condition called Sjogrens syndrome which affects a person’s moisture-producing glands (salivary and lacrimal) and affects all organ systems, including lungs. A person with sjogren’s can’t cough up mucus because the mucus is too dry and becomes impacted. Females are affected 10x more than males.

And…Lady Windermere was a young woman. Why doctors chose this description for the disease is baffling.

[quote] I lacked mucus.

Impacted mucus

I'm no doctor (but I play one on TV), but I believe OP's condition is spelled h-y-p-o-c-h-o-n-d-r-i-a.

Monkey Pox

Sounds like mild Covid. I've been vaccinated to the hilt and I've still had it about 5 times- each time milder than the one before.

My pulmonologists have been trying to keep me off the drugs, R8.

And the drugs have to be stopped at about 18 months, to prevent drug resistant bacteria from forming. Not sure how long people stay off them. If your sputum is negative at 18 months they keep you off drugs until you seroconvert again. But I don’t know when they restart drugs if you were positive all along.

Its the AIDS dear.

Legionnaires' disease as I just read about it in the Daily Mail, so this must be it.