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Originally Posted by ducati1974
Please give me your thoughts /experiences with my symptoms. Last January I caught a very bad cold from a visitor.
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What happened to your visitor? Did he/she have the same problem you're having? Or did their cold just go away by itself in a short period of time?
You had:
1) antibiotics
2) chest Xrays
3) CAT scans
4) lung Dr. visits
5) allergy meds
6) more antibiotics
7) inhalers
8) prednisone
9) omeprazole (prilosec)
Could it be, in retrospect, that you overreacted and did too much which may have depressed your immune system, thereby preventing normal healing?
If, as was suggested, you had a secondary infection, wouldn't two rounds of antibiotics have cleared it up? Well, it's not cleared up so we're back to my theory of the immune system.
I think most of us assume that you don't smoke and you don't live with a smoker. And I assume you don't drink alcohol. Also, I hope you're not getting too much iron in your diet from red meat and/or supplements because too much iron can depress your immune system. Well, not enough iron is bad too, so we need just the right amount.