Virus won't go away after a month

Yes me a co worker and now my boyfriend has the same symptoms you are? On to of it all my face gets really red and I'm hot flashing or have a fever what feels like all the time!! I'm thinking it has to be a virus because my co worker had the symptons! Ya I know I misspelled

It started with a headache, a severe nauseating stomach ache and respiratory issues that made it very hard to breathe. The headache was debilitating. Next came sore throat, runny nose and exhaustion. I've never been this sick in my life! Cold and clammy skin and trip to urgent care for a Zpack and breathing treatment with a nebulizer and prednisone. The dry heaving was awful bad, like food poisoning but too weak and tired to eat. Lots of phlegm now and feels like a head cold. It's like getting 3 illnesses all at once! I've not been sick in many many years.

Wow, just took 1 1/2 hours to read every post in this thread. I have had this nasty virus for a month now. Just like everyone else, it tends to get better for a couple days then get worse. Mine is mostly now just a respiratory problem, troubles breathing, slightly swollen throat, swollen lymph nodes, cough and constantly spitting up frothy clear stuff(no yellow infection whatsoever). I am very run down, no energy, appetite is OK though now. 2 weeks ago I got a very high fever for 1 1/2 days.

I'm in Oklahoma where the weather is all over the place. 1 day it can be 20 degrees and windy(that KILLS ME !!!!) and the next day it can be sunny and 70 degrees. I have noticed when it warms up, I get better. When it gets cold, I get worse. I have gone through 2 rounds of anti-biotics and have had a cortisteroid shot(Kenalog). Nothing helps.

Every morning after a couple glasses of ice water and spitting up whatever settled in my lungs over night, I feel better. By the end of the day, I am super fatigued, coughing like crazy and spitting stuff up. I now sleep 10-11 hours a day and I just cannot kick this.

One thing I have not seen anyone post about is trying Colloidal Silver. I have just ordered some this morning and am going to give that a try, will report back.

Reporting back. Now over a month with this horrible viral bronchitis that just won't go away. I finally found 2 things that work and really help. My girlfriend has a nebulizer and prescription for medication to put in the nebulizer for her asthma. I have now used it several times and it really works. Unfortunately, it only helps for 2-3 hours but it really opens you up. Using that nebulizer is the only time in the past month that I felt I could actually breathe normally. Whether this will help long-term, I'm not sure yet.

Upon the recommendation of someone who has similar problems, I bought this high dollar stuff called "Clear Lungs" at Akins and found it a complete waste of money, did nothing whatsoever.

The other think I am doing is putting high quality super nano-particle high quality colloidal silver in the nebulizer 2 or 3 times a day. I have done a lot of reading on this and have found that it is good for bronchitis and pneumonia. It seems to be help, although I just started it yesterday. I am not coughing up as much phlem now.

Will report back in a few days.

I have had it for two weeks and I am sick of it. It started with stomach pains, I keep blowing off and I even had diarrhea (out of the bathroom unfortunately)! For the past five days I have had a mega headache, I feel sick, have aches like the flu, a slight cough and just want to sleep all the time (but I can't as I have to go to work!). I thought I was going mad with all these different symptoms and couldn't pin anyone thing down to go to the doctor about (plus you can never get in anyway).

I'm curious whether anyone is over it yet. It's hit the midwest, and we all seem to have it. I on the 3rd month. Does it ever end?

It seems to wax and wane, sometimes you feel like you are better than it seems to come back again, not as bad as before but the symptoms just seem to come and go. I've had strange pains and gas in the lower intestines and sometimes higher that I can't tell if is from something I'm taking vitamin wise or if it is this bug, I lay off the vitamins seem somewhat better than feel it again, sometimes barely make it to the toilet!! Very strange, just seems to come and go constantly for months!!!

Wondering if you ever found relief. Mu daughrmyer has been going through tgis for a yr. Every test has been run including a spinal tap. I dont know what to do or how to help her.

Hello it's nice to find people who have gone through the same thing. It's been two weeks for me going into my third and I'm still u well I have no energy feel daized can't concentrate dry mouth. Had diarrhea a distant shudder in my body and I can't focus. I feel like I'm not getting better the docs arnt doing or saying much I don't want to move I've spent two weeks in bed. How much longer until late i get over this virus ?? Can anyone help me ? I'm taking vits now and for immune system ginger tumeric and honey herbal teas. Help me ??

I feel the same I'm going into my third week now I can't focus feel tired don't want to move . Dry mouth . Dizzy off balance . Body feels f***** I've been docs but they said another week that week will be tomorrow and still feel the same. I think I won't feel fully better u till another week or so by other people's comments virus is so strong has really messed me up.

Hi please help what yogurt is this?? Thank you I can't find witch one it is . Thank you

The docs all over know about this plague but simply don't know what to do about it except to try and treat the symptoms and tell people it will get better over time, which it doesn't. Millions of people all over the world have had this for years. The disease waxes and wanes but refuses to go away. Keep your health in top shape and treat the symptoms as best you can. Maybe "they" will find the cause someday but not today I'm sorry to say.

Yes it is extremely frustrating....the best things I have found to help are keeping up your immune system, taking things like Elderberry extract, mushrooms, hot lemon water, vitamin C and D3, drink lots of water and liquids, exercise a little try to sweat it out a little but not too much, sometimes a nice Epsom salt hot bath but you might feel worse a bit but then better. It truly is "the plague", I know how you all feel, I hope you all find some relief soon too!!!

I have been sick almost 4 montha now from this same horrible virus. I have had every type of blood test and urine screening and the doctors admitted they have no idea what is happening to me other than it is a virus and they can't offer any help.

Things get better and then the chills and hot flashes begin again and then the headache comes back. My lymph nodes swell and then go back to normal. The fatigue, weakness and stomach issues comes back. I have lost 50lbs (and I am heavy so not the worst thing) and I am losing muscle fast.

Before this started I was having a great deal of pain from my back and had to go on opiates until I got back injections to deal with the pain.

I was at month 2 when I got the injections and was just beginning to feel less crappy (still nowhere near well though) and the steroids in the injections caused my immune system to crash and I have been sick as can be since them.

Only when I rest for hours everyday am I able to feel somewhat normal but and physical activity brings the fatigue, weakness, headaches, swollen lymph nodes, joint pain (like extreme Arthritis) and muscle pain, as well as the constant body temperature fluctuations.

Just recently I began feeling a little tiny bit better. I am either in bed or in the recliner trying to wait this out. I have had Parvo virus in the past and this is nothing lile that. They even checked for Parvo again and nothing shows up.

This sickness has changed my entire life. I had to close my store after month 1 because I couldn't work at all. Even trying to look at the phone gives me headaches, dizziness and the urge to vomit.

Believe it or not, I Am Better now than I was when this first hit and I Am Better than I was directly after the injections. All that said, I am nowhere near back to 100%. This has been the longest I have ever been sick and I am truly tired of it.

The recovery may be getting prolonged with me because while I have been sick I have cut down from 15 cigarettes a day to 3. I have stopped taking almost all the depression meds, panic/anxiety meds, and ADHD meds I have been on for a long time. I stopped taking all the pills because I was tired of throwing them up and since I stopped the meds I haven't been throwing up.

I am also not suffering from the issues that caused me to go on the meds years ago. Even with all this sickness some good has come out of it. I feel HORRIBLE for anyone who has lost their job, needs to care for children and had to change their lives to make room for this Disgusting virus!! When the symptoms come back, I can't do anything but try to sleep and wait them out.

The length of this sickness is right up there with Parvo virus but at least I had 5 days in a row of feeling ok before it all went to sh*t for 5 days (and then feeling ok for 6 days, then feeling horrible for 4 days) with the Parvo Virus. This sickness lets me get maybe half a day to a day and then I am down for another 5-7 days.

After ALL THIS, I am finally finally finally beginning to get more than one day of feeling ok at a time. I Hope To High Heaven that I am finally beginning to round the corner on this virus and some normality will come back to my life.

I will report back if there are any more
changes in my condition. I think the one thing above all else that has kept me sane has been a strangely (but welcomed) positive attitude that hasn't been with me in many years.

If I could just get my sinuses and lymph nodes to get back to normal and get rid of these constant headaches and fatigueI think I could deal with the other symptoms but it is a package deal.

HANG IN THERE EVERYONE!! Maybe together we can figure out some way to deal with this so that our children and friends have some way to feel better if they catch this thing.

Sincerely,
SHOE (from Massachusetts)

My gosh Shoe you have been through the ringer!!!! Yes, this is a crazy virus, but as you said you are dealing with many things at once, trying to cut out meds and smoking which any one of them alone would be a tough battle, but hang in there and good luck, you will be in my prayers for strength! You might want to look into Neilmed nasal rinse for your sinuses, you can use it everyday as I do and it really does help, you can get it at CVS or Target, just about anywhere. And go on Youtube and look up lymph gland massage and you will see ways to open up your lymph glands yourself that also really help.

Keep up the fight, I know it is tough....years ago I read about the Sydney strain of norovirus, this still may be it or part of it, but it is just horrible. Years ago, my father said "it won't be war that will wipe us out, it will be germs and bacteria and viruses".....he may be right!!!

Good luck to you and all who look on here for answers!

God Bless!