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I’ve had one of the nastiest flus of all time. The coughs were so strong it was like electric shock thru my body and my muscles spasmed. A few days after my back muscles were sore like after a solid bench press session. They lasted a couple of days and then turned to normal coughs and lasted for another 4 weeks.

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Maybe that was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whooping_cough ?

I thought and had read the symptoms but I had no whooping sound. Just the cough.

Same shit here. Started just before the NY, still had cough 1 week ago, got azithromycin that seemed to have helped with cough a lot, but I only had it for 4 days and 4 more days later the cough is back. No whooping sounds, or maybe there were in the beginning. Had a flu vaccine in November.

Thought most of us took whooping cough vaccine as kids. Its part of DTaP vaccine.

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