That flu jab thing

[Workingman]

I was at the doctor's this morning as part of my MOT and drugs assessment. I was coughing, spluttering and constantly blowing my nose when the doc suggested he should have a listen.

It turns out that I have acute bronchitis exacerbated by a bacterial infection, so I am now on two tabs of doxycycline and six of prednisolone for the next seven days.

I always reckoned it to be a coincidence, but it has knocked me sideways these last few weeks and I really should have made an appointment a long time back.

Men, eh?

[Nanna]

Oh dear . Feel better soon WM xxx

[saundra]

Ho Frank get well soon good job you managed to get to the doctor

[Diflower]

Blimey Wm, you and Suff between you are certainly 'men'

[Gal]

It turns out that I have acute bronchitis exacerbated by a bacterial infection, so I am now on two tabs of doxycycline and six of prednisolone for the next seven days.

I'm almost tempted to say lucky you, getting all those meds....I'm still not 100% after that do Tom and I both started in August, still got a ton of gunk in my throat and constantly clearing it....at the time, I got one lot of doxy (no pred) and when that didn't shift it I was told it will take it's time and put up with it, basically :/

Get well soon x

[Kaz]

Oh heck Frank, get well soon! My sister has had acute bronchitis recently, she ended up in hossie! So take care (((((x)))))

[Suff]

WM, I was told, quite a while ago, that during a difficult bout of Flu they give antibiotics. Not for the Flu, it doesn't do a thing, but to counteract all the other bacterial infections which get in when your immune system is taken up fighting the virus.

Gal, remember they kept on telling us "finish the course or you'll cause immune infections"? Now, to cut costs, they are not giving us a long enough course and are actually causing the immune infections. When I came back from Argentina with a serious infection I'd had for 6 weeks, they prescribed exactly the right antibiotic. It was magic, stopped the problem in 5 days. The issue was that they only prescribed me 7 days of the drug. Which was not enough to kill off such a virulent infection. I was re-infected and had to take a 6 week course of a much nastier antibiotic which caused all sorts of side effects.

Had I infected someone else during that time, they would have an immune bacteriological infection running around which they had created. Cue intense irritation. I checked this with #1 daughter and her surmise was that I was right, it was cost cutting.

[JoM]

Frank, take care and get well soon! xx

Suff, it's ridiculous isn't it?! Cutting costs initially which then leads to you needing a longer more expensive course of treatment.

[Gal]

Gal, remember they kept on telling us "finish the course or you'll cause immune infections"? .

I thought it was always a 5 or a 7 day course? I had three amoxycillin tablets which caused my IBS to go mental, so I phoned the pharmacy and they ended up giving me the doxy anyway.....but it didn't kill the infection after the allotted course, so I w nt back and back to the GP who after testing me for loads of stuff, decided the infection HAD been killed and to basically go away and get well in my own time....

[Suff]

Interesting, I don't think I'd ever had less than a 2 week course. Mind you almost all my antibiotics were dispensed by the RAF or the Army.

Not that I have a lot of antibiotics. Two courses in the last 35 years I think.