Weight: 83 kg
Pulse: 78 beats per minute
Body temperature: 36.7C
Blood saturation: 98%
Because of the cough, I stopped going to the gym. You might have expected me to gain weight due to decreased physical activity, but the complete opposite happened. I didn’t get enough sleep, I lost my appetite and my weight dropped by 3 kg, now it was 86-3 = 83 kg. I went to see a therapist. I don’t know what the correct name for this specialist is in your language, perhaps Google Translate incorrectly translated his specialization… This is a doctor who conducts an initial examination and, if necessary, writes out a referral to a doctor specializing in a certain area of the body, that is, diseases of certain organs. After listening to my complaints of cough, the doctor examined my throat. The throat turned red. Using a stethoscope, he listened to my lungs and noticed some wheezing, but overall nothing serious. Since I haven’t had a fever since the onset of the cough, the doctor concluded that it was a bacterial rather than a viral cause.
Diagnosed with J04.2 (acute laryngotracheitis). Prescribed the following medications:
Levofloxacin – 1 tablet 500 mg * 2 times a day (7 days)
Budesonide – 2 inhalations * 2 times a day (7 days)
*** Here and further I will leave links to a store that delivers medicines by mail. If the named medicine is not in their range, you can search Google for the name of the medicine, in what cases it is prescribed, dosage and side effects. This is an online pharmacy with which I worked as a webmaster for 10 years before my illness. They sell generic versions of most popular drugs. There is a high percentage of repeat orders here, this convinces me that they are not selling placebos, but good generics that help customers actually cope with the disease.
After taking Levofloxacin, I noticed an unpleasant side effect: low blood pressure. Moreover, this was expressed very noticeably; when I got out of bed or abruptly stood up from a chair, I began to feel dizzy. The cough did not go away, it remained just as useless, I could not cough up any phlegm from the lungs and, accordingly, did not understand whether it was there (((I was upset by this and waited for the next visit to the therapist scheduled for a week. My wife “added fuel to the fire “, starting to suspect I have lung cancer…
