:solidarity guys: It’s a long story, but I suffered from a SEVERE unexplained persistent cough for about 4 years which was bad enough that I’ve lost jobs over it, everybody would get up and walk to the other end of the train carriage each morning, and I’ve even had people square up to me over it, including amusingly on an aeroplane one time. After being through most of the departments, still undiagnosed, nobody could find anything wrong with me and I was apparently “otherwise in perfect health for a 32yo non-smoker”. It disappeared one morning just as abruptly and without explanation, but in the meantime it appears to have ripped a nice hole in my stomach lining, so I have all kinds of severe reflux complications. Even with PPIs (which I weaned myself off and went without for a year), I still spend much of the average day trying to find the most strategic place to be sick, and I can frequently go for nights without sleep. It’s fucking horrible, and what upsets me the most is that it probably wouldn’t be as bad if the multiple doctors I’d presented to with vomiting blood had paid attention and not tried to convince me that’s “nothing to worry about”. 
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