We're starting to get in the realm of specific health related questions and outside SDN TOS. I hate to be a party pooper, but ......😡
shush!
He just offered his opinion on why azythromiacin sux.
it remained general and Zpack didn't recommend a specific replacement and I didn't solicit one. A discussion among internet aquaintances regarding our personal health issues is not a TOS violation unless we solicit medical advice.
Furthermore, it is the same as debating the merits of schedule B.
Anyway, back to me sharing my personal story without soliciting advice...
So there I am, grilling mesquite lime chicken on the grill. The smell was so inviting I took a deep enough whiff to bath my palate in the aroma. Then it began.
It was a short, cursory cough. The kind you get when you accidentally inhale a small, as in two or three drops, amount of saliva. I didn't think much of it.
cough, cough, cough
A small hiccup accompanied each cough. I thought, "Maybe a little more forceful, I only need to clear my throat."
CougH, CougH,CougH
In the back of my throat I felt a constant flow of fluid. When the hell did I forget how to swallow? I needed to cough opened mouthed so I leaned over the kitchen sink.
CoUgH, CoUgH, CoUgH
Blood droplets smattered the stainless steel.
COUGH, COUGH, COUGH
My body was consumed with the feeling of mozzarella cheese in laryngeal purgatory; trapped half way between my mouth and stomach. I felt my body turn inside out. It was uncontrolled violence, and the blood pools were reminiscient of a Tiajuana alleyway mugging. My lungs were immersed in a hard bleed.
Eventually, it subsided, I wiped my watery eyes dry, and caught my breath. I wrote it off as simply being a ruptured blood vessel from a hard cough. But hell, I'm 34 years old. I have coughed plenty of times before and never bled. What the ****? We ate dinner and watched Heroes.
Afterwards, I felt unexpectedly tired. I started to get ready for bed and the cough came back. This time without the gradual upswing. Pure blood all over again. I felt my thorax and abdomen cramp from the force of each cough.
I went to the emergency room.
"Do you smoke?" the triage nurse asked.
"Do you smoke?" nurse Joe asked as he placed a shunt catheter in my left arm.
"Do you smoke?" asked Dr. LeFleche.
"Do you smoke?" asked the chest x-ray tech (I don't have pneumonia).
"Do you smoke?" asked the EKG tech (No cardiac distress from a pulmonary embolism).
"Do you smoke?" asked the CT scan tech (No tumors, tuberculosis, pulmonary embolism, or edema).
In fact, my lungs are clear and yes, I smoke.
4:00 a.m. I get a bill for $75.00 and a script for ****ing antibiotics. They have no idea what is wrong with me, but they know what it is not. I have a follow-up in two days with another in a week. Weird part is I feel perfectly healthy.
The moral of the story: stay away from mesquite lime chicken.
and quit smoking 
