I woke up after poor sleep at 5 am with chest tightness and coughing up mucus, wheezing, and feeling feverish. I have a lot of health issues, just got over a viral illness. Hadn't felt like this suddenly in a long time. I have asthma so I did my steroid inhaler and albuterol, and aromatherapy, and took Mucinex DM for chest congestion to loosen mucus and suppress some of the cough and make it more productive so I could cough up the mucus and get it out. I also used nasal saline spray and flonase (fluticasone ) nasal spray, which I do daily anyway to avoid illnesses, flush out allergens, prevent sinus infections. Which works, as I used to get them years back, and I don’t touch my face, rub my eyes, use good hand washing, etc. But I did this for a day, and a night, woke up after split sleep feeling no better if not worse. Called the dr office got appt for afternoon. Thought it was chest stuff maybe sinus too, I’m a retired family nurse practitioner, RN since ‘93 also having seen this a lot they did give me shot of steroid and shot of antibiotic and because my ears hurt and I have autoimmune, Am high risk, yes did get flu shot, got Rx for Levaqin as pneumonia can be life threatening to me as I was on immunosuppressive meds for 10 years to try and half the damage to my body the issues I had. At the dr office after water and Tylenol my temp was still upper 99.9. So last thing did Flu swab. I lay my head back on the wall thinking last time I felt this bad I had the flu and strep, ear infection and high temp, no Tamiflu just antibiotic This time. Diagnosed with Influenza A. Started feeling better even though only got 3 hr 50 min sleep, coughing, asthma stuff, flu symptoms gone, second dose, fever going away, well worth it. Just because one person has negative reaction doesn’t mean the other will. Also check drug interactions, and flu risk/benefit. Last flu had bad, no Tamiflu ‘01 returned after week off had grand mal seizure-dehydration Read More Read Less