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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Asthma / June 2006Maybe bronchitis?
I have an appt tommorow but was wondering.... Can you have bronchitis and still be breathing normally? I have a cough that has lasted 2 weeks and some other symptoms I won't go into but my breathing is fine. Also, I've produced very little phlem with this cough. I'm hoping that it's just some sort of infection because I have alot of risk factors for a more serious alternative dignosis....which has me rather concerned. So, can you have bronchitis (or?) with normal breathing and very little phlem production? THANK YOU. >I have an appt tommorow but was wondering.... > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > THANK YOU. I don't think you could have bronchitis with normal breathing, but there's been some viral thing going around our area (Chicago) where people end up with a cough for three or four weeks. Still, better to have a doctor tell you that, than just assume. Well, I've never experienced anyhting like this before. I'm on my 16th day with it but like I say....my breathing is fine and very little phlem. (By the way, I live in Indianapolis) (?) Have they put a name on this thing you mentioned in Chicago? I think there is a good chance I picked it up at a local bar. No name that I've heard of. I had it a bit ago and the cough lasted three weeks, but I heard that for some people it lasted longer. My doctor just called it a viral infection and said it was really making the rounds.. No coughing anything up, no other symptoms other than I was really fatigued and had that annoying cough. > Well, I've never experienced anyhting like this before. > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Have they put a name on this thing you mentioned in Chicago? I > think there is a good chance I picked it up at a local bar. > No name that I've heard of. I had it a bit ago and the cough lasted three > weeks, but I heard that for some people it lasted longer. My doctor just > called it a viral infection and said it was really making the rounds.. No > coughing anything up, no other symptoms other than I was really fatigued > and had that annoying cough. In past studies URI's that lasted three weeks or longer and were not due to "typical" bacterial infections (bacterial bronchitis or sinusitis) or smoking were due to viruses about 50% of the time, mycoplasma about 25%, and pertussis (whooping cough) 25%. Both of the later are "atypical" bacteria (because clininically they look more like viral infections than bacterial infections) and can be treated with some antibiotics. The part that makes even that a little trickier is that a chronic cough can linger for 4-6 weeks after a viral bronchitis despite the active infection being over.  Signature00doc As it turns out, I have bacterial bronchitis...never experienced it before. Now that I'm on my second day of antibiotics....much better. Should have went in last week. So, in case anyone searches......you can have bronchitis without alot of phlem and you can have perfectly normal breathing. Live and learn. >> No name that I've heard of. I had it a bit ago and the cough lasted >> three weeks, but I heard that for some people it lasted longer. My [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > for 4-6 weeks after a viral bronchitis despite the active infection being > over. > As it turns out, I have bacterial bronchitis...never > experienced it before. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Live and learn. Thanks for the follow up information. > In past studies URI's that lasted three weeks or longer and > were not due to "typical" bacterial infections (bacterial [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > chronic cough can linger for 4-6 weeks after a viral bronchitis > despite the active infection being over. I guess this just illustrates how important it is for the patient to pay attention to timelines, which I used to be really bad at. "I don't know how long I've had it." That helped. |
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