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[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I was talking with a buddy in NYC yesterday. Jokingly, I said I had this thing at the end of January that last for about a week and almost caused me to see a cardiologist.

Started with feeling tired really quickly while running one afternoon. Then I got feverish at night. Chest was really tight and burning around sternum. Next day I ran again and couldn't catch breath. I was concerned but figured it was just bronchitis or pneumonia. Next three days I simply could not exercise at usual pace. Burning in chest. No mucus. Now I'm thinking I have to see a heart doc. But my resting heart rate was still low. Thought it was acid reflux meds not working. Easy to test that: Take Tums and see if symptoms abate. Tums did nothing. Still having trouble breathing. This went on for seven or so days and then just as quickly as it appeared, it went away. I went skiing at high altitude and felt fine.

My buddy in NYC, at around the exact same time, had the same symptoms. He went to a heart doc for an EKG and it came back fine.

This could have been myriad things. But almost always, with pneumonia or bronchitis, or a chest flu, there's a lot of mucus. I had no mucus with this. No headache either. But I did have watery eyes.

I wonder if a whole lot of us have had this and not known it because it's so subtle and unlike typical flus. And I am often around people who go to China for business a lot.

you thought you had pneumonia and you didn’t go to a doctor?