Hi guys

I am in my fourth year on Ty, and for the first time, I have developed a really nasty upper respiratory infection that will not go away. I have have had it for more than three weeks now, and it came on the afternoon of my last infusion.

I went to the emergency room at my local hospital, because the night before my throat was closing up when I was coughing, and I couldn't breathe but the nice doctor assured me that although I was running a fever, my chest was clear (I knew that - I had a dry cough) and 'Tysabri does not affect the immune system'. So, it is a virus, it will 'clear in its own time and I just need to be patient but thanks for coming in'.

So...another week later, my throat and mouth are totally raw, I can't eat, I can't sleep, I can't stop coughing (dry coughing - just irritation), I can't get into see a doctor in my town and I am getting totally exhausted.

Anyone else experience this kind of thing that seemed to take forever to go away? I had fever for about ten days, that has gone, but I feel weak and tired - like a limp dish-rag.

This has all happened in the middle of an horrendous heat-wave which hasn't helped and I feel like h*ll.

Lyn