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Has anyone noticed this after COVID?

Your cough reflex is more sensitive to triggers than usual?

Not that you cough often but you cough easier than before.

For example when drinking cold water.

I've read it's normal after viral respiratory infections in general for up to 2 months.

It's been a month since I got it.

Good thing is my oxygen saturation is 99%.
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Northwest · M
I did not covid, but I had pneumonia a few years ago, and I noticed that.

Problem is the passageway gets enlarged, so tiny particles have an easier way of getting in there, and the body reacts by coughing, to expel the object.
Spica · 31-35, F
@Northwest I am glad to hear that you're over the pneumonia now. Why did you get it if you don't mind my asking?

Also what were your symptoms?
Northwest · M
@Spica It's a bit of a long story, but they usually are :-)

I was doing some late season skiing in Sun Valley with some college-days friends, very little sleep, ski all day, jump from the hot tub, and roll into piles of snow, then flew straight to Las Vegas, where the partying continued for a few days. On the flight back home, I was starting to feel hot and bothered.

By morning, I was not able to get out of bed, so I called a family member, who took me to the hospital. Both my lungs looked "black". I was put on intravenous antibiotics, as well as anti-viral meds. This is a university/teaching hospital, so a group of students was assigned to their professor as he handled my treatment over the next few days.

Took about 6 months before I was able to breathe deep enough to go SCUBA diving.

The moral of the story, is that if you're 40, don't think you can get away with doing what you did when you were 20.

As silly as it sounds, the coughing, due to the tiniest particle, is what irritated the most.
Spica · 31-35, F
@Northwest Wow so it developed that fast! I believe you caught some bacterial infection somehow – otherwise they wouldn't put you on antibiotics.
Northwest · M
@Spica The medical team did not if it was bacterial or viral, but their primary concern was to take my temperature down, so they double dosed me.
Spica · 31-35, F
@Northwest It's alarming that thing went straight to the lungs. Usually people develop pneumonia as a complication to cold or bronchitis.
Northwest · M
@Spica It may have started that way, and I simply brushed it off, and continued partying for days.
Spica · 31-35, F
@Northwest That makes sense.