I've got bronchitis and for several days, I felt like fainting

[LeftInTX]

Until the meds kicked in, I felt like fainting every time I got up. It was just awful.
I don't know how Hillary even managed to attend the 9/11 event and not totally collapse.

I've got a pretty nasty sudden strain of this stuff. Ironically it came on a few days after 9/11. I kept wondering if I was getting some "weird Hillary sympathy syndrome". My husband dragged me to the doc on Saturday and the doc could hear it in my lungs right away. He thought maybe it was pneumonia but it was just bronchitis. I'm getting the treatment: steroids, antibiotics and albutirol inhaler.

I've had bronchitis and pneumonia many times, but this is the first time that it constantly made me feel like fainting.

Oh well, thought I would share because it shows that Hillary is quite a trooper!!

[csziggy]

1. I'm getting over a bad cold with no lung congestion

But Friday when I went shopping I got so lightheaded I had to cut my shopping short. I honestly thought I could pass out, was seeing spots in front of my eyes and blackness at the edges of my vision.

My husband took me to a restaurant where we sat down, drank a bunch of water, had a nice dinner and rested for a while. Instead of doing the other things we had planned one, we came home and I took a three hour nap.

Hope you feel better soon!

[LeftInTX]

5. It also seems an unlikely time of year for this stuff...

At least for me. I'm in South Texas and if I catch anything, it's almost always Nov-Feb.

Hope your cold goes away soon.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Had a terrible case of bronchitis a couple years ago,

and ended up hauling myself to urgent care because I was so dizzy and had trouble breathing; I felt like absolute crap for weeks. So I have to hand it to Hillary for trying to keep her busy schedule. I don't think I could have done it.

[LeftInTX]

3. I probably would have collapsed just walking up to the memorial

[progressoid]

4. Yep.

Been fighting something for almost two weeks now. It ain't fun.

[applegrove]

6. Get well soon.

[Laffy Kat]

7. If that continues I'd have your O2 sat. checked.

You may need some supplemental for a few days. Take it easy. Your body needs you to rest.

[LeftInTX]

11. They checked the O2 sat. in the office.

I didn't ask what it was. But, I was kinda wondering about that.

I think it is ironic that Hillary has a common infection, she bravely goes to an event, she stumbles, the world makes it seem like it is the most awful thing. I hope most voters will realize that feeling faint is a side effect of a common infection.

[DebJ]

8. I had the same thought about Hillary. Some nasty virus is going around like crazy.

My Dad and sister in NC spent the entire month of August fighting it off.
My son and his girlfriend (much younger) were sick for two weeks in August.
My husband returned to teaching the August 22, and by August 30 was feeling really lightheaded, nauseous and sick, and he NEVER gets sick. Ended up barely moving for a week, and he STILL has a runny nose and chest congestion.

It hit me with a sore throat on 9/4 and 9/5, then massive head congestion that NOTHING would relieve, so no sleep, gradually worked its way to my chest. From the 7th thru the 18th, just walking from one end of the house to the other (a very small 1200 sq ft rancher) was enough to make me collapse and need to lie down. It's like a perpetual flu without the aching-to-the-bone feeling, completely limp. I do have asthma, but this is the first time since being diagnosed with that 15 years ago that I've had difficulties at all. This Wednesday will be my third visit to the doctor. Saturday, 11 days in to being a waste of space, I got an antibiotic and am finally recovering, but still not up to full power; maybe at 40%.

Everyone in my doctor's office had it as of 9/6, even my doctor.

It began to feel like I'd never improve; like this was a perpetual war between the virus and my body, a stalemate, and neither could win out. Never experienced anything like this in almost 61 years.

[LeftInTX]

9. Yikes..

I hope you get well soon. It's so frustrating to have to keep going back to the doctor until finally it is obvious that antibiotics are needed. Been there, done that.

My son is getting married Oct 1st. It's going to be a big Mexican wedding. Fortunately, the doctor put me on antibiotics rights away.

[malthaussen]

10. I'm sorry, then I'll have to vote for Donald Trump... n/t

[LeftInTX]

12. LOL!!