Being that age with whooping cough must be particularly hard on the body. I pray the gentleman was healed from this terrible affliction. Thank you for sharing so the rest of us can learn what this looks like.
I had it when I was 13.. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. The whoop noise you near is actually a good thing.. Getting all the oxygen back into the system..
The lungs isn’t even the worst part it’s not being able to breathe and coughing to the point of throwing up I have it right now also my core just aches like Crazy
I had whooping cough a few weeks ago. It is terrifying. The coughing fits are literally uncontrollable. If you try to swallow, your esophagus will close, and you will be unable to breath. Since you’re not technically choking there’s nothing anyone can do.
TDLF i keep seeing videos saying that its only for babies, but im 18 and i woke up at 4 in the morning, whooping for about a minute after uncontrollable coughing, which was followed up by a gagging reflex to throw up. it was one of if not the worst pains i have felt in my life
Gavin I’m 19 and I have it to but I only have a whooping cough attack once a day literally only once and throughout the resy of the day I’ll be good. I just hate that suffocating or chocking feeling and not being able to exhale . Is there anything that you do to make yours better ?
Someone told me whooping cough is very basically like almost coughing lungs out. Something like that I coughed until my face turned red but not like this.
I have whooping cough right now and it's getting me down. I passed out from suffocating from it 4 days ago and it was the scariest moment of my life. It feels so much worse than you can imagine.
I had it when I was in my late 30s. It was horrid. I would literally pass out daily. I would wake up very frightened and disoriented. I passed out in a book store one time. I hit the floor and bloodied my nose. No one even noticed. I woke up disoriented and ashamed. Let me know how your doing. Believe me Chelloowie it will pass. Shoot me a message if you are feeling down. I have been threw this and i can sympathize.
Several times I would be walking along start whooping then boom I would be waking up off the ground. The passing out is actually a good thing becuase its the bodies way of preventing you from suffocating. Best of luck folks. The dumbass doctor didnt know what I had until 30 days after I had it and it was too late by then so I had to ride it out.
Just going through this as an adult, it’s the first day I‘m feeling remotely better. This video helped to show my husband how uncontrollable these coughing firs really are. Each time I had a fit he felt so helpless watching me like this, he tried to give me the advice to „breathe in calmly and cough more carefully or not so hard“ to not hurt myself. Please don’t judge him. He’s a compassionate man and really only wanted to help, but during the fits this advice stressed me even more, cause as soon such a fit takes its course it‘s really IMPOSSIBLE to control control anything. I‘m in my late 40‘s and can tell this doesn’t compare to any cough I ever had before. Sometimes I sat down on the toilet during a fit, cause otherwise I would have peed my pants. This cough is BRUTAL and I don’t wish it on anyone. Two times I threw up during episodes. It feels like someone stuck a feather down your throat, tingling your lungs. Makes you feel like suffocating. If you feel your cough is unusual violent, please see a doc early on. I didn’t, cause I thought everyone gets a bad cough here and there. If I went earlier, and took antibiotics earlier, it maybe wouldn’t have gotten that worse and wouldn’t have lasted that long.
This video helped me diagnose my own whooping cough. I went on to develop cough syncope and have now lost driving licence for 12 months. If only I'd come across this a few weeks earlier I may have avoided driving ban and hospital stay. If you're coughing like this seek medical attention asap!
Excellent diagnostic tool for healthcare workers and parents. Poor man! but thank you to him for allowing himself to be filmed🙏 will help in early diagnosis and help prevent spread when people know to isolate ill individuals.
Thank you for sharing your experience. I had whooping cough last spring and I use your video to explain to my people what it was, as nobody has a clue of how miserable you become with this. I used to pass out and vomit as well after these intense episodes.
Part 3: Trying to breath in lots of air quickly right after I'm done coughing only escalates things further. This new "process" I've been following has helped me avoid any further terrifying situations where I felt like I was going to pass out. A couple of other things: Make sure you are very well hydrated. Sleep with water on the nightstand so you can hydrate at night if you wake up coughing. Hope my experience helps someone else with whooping cough. It seriously sucks!
Lol, I had it one time and I had no clue because I thought that too, but apparently the whoop was the sound of me gasping for for air when it felt like I was choking to death.
This makes me tense up a lot because you're just waiting for them to take that breath of air and they can't even do that because they feel like they gonna die just by coughing so hard
Omg I hate seeing things like this I get so emotional it's so sad to see people suffer like this. This is why I want to be a nurse or doctor to help people with their medical issues. I hate seeing people with whooping cough it makes me so sad just seeing them struggle to breathe and all of that stuff. I'm planning on studying pediatric oncology too so I can help ppl with their problems.
I know that feeling. Studying medicine myself. But there is something we all can do to help, doctors/nurses or no. Taking a firm stand against the "antivaxx" movements. They have no idea just how dangerous they are to the society and everyone in it.
I had whooping cough years ago and it was very scary. I literally felt like death was coming for me. I don’t want to know what pneumonia or corona virus feels like. When you have this cough avoid dairy products and have something to fan your face with when you are in the middle of coughing and gasping for air that way you can get SOME air in your lungs. It helped me idk.
The person recording really should be wearing a mask because this illness is extremely contagious, it is easily spread through air and anyone is vulnerable.
I strongly suggest you go see your doctor and demand to be vaccinated against it. You probably where as baby but the vaccins only work few years. so I have noticed in march this year. Well, it was half april when they finally did some blood tests and found it was no cold, no brochitis, no pneumonia and no astma but whooping cough. I have broken 2 ribs on the right side when coughing and 3 weeks later, when the pain was barable, torn the muscles of my ribs on the left side when coughing. That bad! But it is far worse. While coughing you suddenly have an empty bladder. Seriously, the coughing is that bad you can't hold up anything during the cough attack. Liquid and solid if have no diarhea (I did ...) It can be as bad as torning those muscles for life. We are now september 1. The coughing is worse again. Due to cold and wet weather. This does not mean I am sick, it means my lungs are not cured yet. It is a lot better than in march/april/may but I'm far from healthy. Still very sleepy and energy level at -10. It has worn me out completely. Doctor told me most adult people are not that sick and don't even notice because it looks like a bad cold. But I will never take the risk again and in few years will get vaccinated. For now I'm immuun, have enough antibodies. I keep telling people to get vaccinated and specially get their baby vaccinated! This is no laughs.
Gehenna71 Thank you so much for your advice, wow that's terrible with what you have to go through. It sounds like it's a never ending cough. I'm sorry to hear about your situation I hope you'll get better and thank you again for your advice fortunately I've never had it before in my life.
Thank you for posting this. My daughter’s cough was getting progressively worse and we were able to talk to the doctors about it being possibly whooping cough
I got whooping cough at age 35 and was off work for six weeks. The paroxysms of coughing are unbelievable. I couldn't drive or cook, do anything really, I'd just end up on the floor. I was vaccinated as a child, which helps, I find it hard to believe that parent would put their children through this.
My 15 year old daughter had it last year for almost 6 months and she was vaccinated as a baby. Being asmathic it was really terrifying for her, and us, but she's al beter now. She got it from our neighbours kid, who isn't vaccinated.
So if you all were vaccinated and said it still was horrible did it really work? Were you all up to date on your boosters? I really want to do whatever I can to prevent it but seems avoidable since so many of you still got it.
Ashley Kiara I was vaccinated but never had any boosters I’m 32 and am just learning about them. I have had a cough like this about 4 times in my adult life but never as a child. I think I need boosters.
I first contracted whooping cough in 1982 at age 22. It was so frightening to fellow passengers on a Greyhound bus that the driver put me off in the middle of small town in upstate New York. I ended up going to the police station where I was able to call my boyfriend to drive down from our college town to get me. It was diagnosed too late to do anything medically. I toughed it out, but it was a good three months before I noticed real improvement. Took about five months to fully resolve. Despite regular booster shots, I've had it twice since.
I’m struggling with this for the past 2 weeks. Never had it before. I can’t describe how dreadful this is. I vomited several times. At nights, usually around 3 AM it’s unbearable. I just don’t know what to do anymore. It’s started to affect me mentally.
Rub vicks on your chest and under your feet arches at night. Once a day take some Tumeric in a cup of warm milk will help alot as tumeric is a natural anti biotic. If you can try getting an air purifier for your bedroom as it will remove dust and bacteria in the air making it easier for your lungs breather beather.
Had this on Christmas day 2019. I was only 14 years at the time, but my god. Having to wake up immediately coughing your head and not being able to control your body is something I will never forget. I had the flu when it happened.
Part 2: I coughed, and tried breathing in, and just made the noise, and didn't actually take any breath in. I panicked, and kept trying to breathe, but again only making the whooping noise. After what seemed like an eternity I managed to catch my breath. Since that episode I've taken measures to do my best not to have another "attack" like that. 1: After coughing I close my mouth and just hold my breath for a moment. 2: After I've calmed I slowly breath in through my nose until things are okay.
After three weeks of misdiagnoses, I was finally diagnosed yesterday (correctly, I think) with pertussis, also known as whooping cough. I'm 58, and my cough is similar to this man's, though often more severe. Really bad attacks can lead to gagging, vomiting, and fainting. I've fainted three times. Now I know to remain in a sitting position when I have an attack. Fortunately, pertussis can be treated successfully with common antibiotics. There is a vaccine, and I've had it, but the version in use now is less effective than the older version, and it wears out. You may need a booster.
Its treated with antibiotics not to CURE it.... its Prophylaxis!! to prevent spread. I am NOT an anti vaccer, im a pediatric rn. sometimes even with vaccine, your titres can be low and there can be a possiblilty of contracting this awful disease!
i have this right now and its disgusting, ambulance came and done their checks and said theres no pneumonia or anything so i didnt need hospital and was so angry because the pain is absolutely unbearable, its the third week. if you know anyone with this stay away from them until theyre better
I'm currently going through this, I'm only 34 and it's hit me hard to the point I'm fainting and becoming injured, I can't imagine being an older gentleman battling it like this guy
I have it now but nobody is helping me I went to the hospital twice at emergency department I was waiting for about a hour and and the nurse told me to go to the GP to give me antibiotics and Iam taking the antibiotics but still have this cough and even worse than that man and feel that hospital don't care
I have this too went to doctor, saw a paramedic told me it’s a virus and take paracetamol but has got worse since then, the feeling of suffocation is terrifying, hopefully i’ll get better soon, best wishes to all who are suffering this at the moment, I hope that man recovered well
I feel like I have this aswell. Uncontrollably coughing, especially at night or laying down or waking up from sleeping. I'm on antibiotics but no signs of improvement. 😢 I need to ask my GP to actually test what I have instead of guessing and just putting me on Antibiotics that might not work.
Have this right now. It's awfull. I thought i was getting better but my body just send me into a coughing fit that didn't let me breath for almost a minute and i've never felt this kind of panic before. It's awfull. Along with these coughing fits, you also have a harder time falling asleep, and this actually usually gets worse during and after sleep, so oftentimes you can't get more than a hour or a half of sleep before you wake up with coughing fits like this. And it really gets you scared. Because on the one hand, you're just terribly ehausted. You don't sleep more than 3-4 hours a day, and you really, really need and want to just sleep, but you're way too scared to sleep because you know that whenever you awake, this is what will be awaiting you. So you rather just don't sleep at all. It's easily the worst i have ever felt. Some people can get no breath so long that they just faint. Luckily it hasn't come quite that far for me yet, but still...
i have this right now 4 wks in. don't know how much more i can take. passing out often and seeing stars after coughing fit passes. also im asthmatic with complicates things
I know how much it sucks and sorry you had to experience it... This has been me every night for the past few weeks. Allergies+asthma=a bad time. I just threw up my dinner. I work up to 60 hours a week in a very physical role and have a qualification to do on the side. There is no cover so I can't take sick leave. I am breaking down in tears several times a day. I had mental health problems +other physical health problems to begin with but this on top because of irritation from allergies is driving me toward suicidal thoughts again.
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My roommate was in his 20s and caught it. Took him months to get into a doctor but thankfully no one else in the house caught it from him, and he was much better after getting into proper treatment!
I remember having a cough like this when I was 15 or 16. I didnt know what it was then. It was so difficult to breathe when the coughing spells started.
I’ve had this now for 8 weeks. It started off as what I thought was just a cold. After about 5 weeks it got real bad. I started having coughing attacks and couldn’t breathe. I was so scared. I’d also cough so hard that I’d vomit. Nothing I did other than taking a hot shower helped (and that was temporary relief) I ended up at an urgent care and was diagnosed with Pertussis. FYI adults that get it often don’t have the “whooping sound”. I would gasp for air and was wheezing something terrible. They prescribed a Zpak, Prednisone, Albuterol Inhaler and 2 different cough meds. The meds seemed to help until about a week after I finished the Prednisone and Zpak. I’m in agony once again. Started having attacks again so severe I went to the ER just a couple days ago. Back on Prednisone and they added another inhaler in addition to the Albuterol. It’s providing some relief (I’ve only been on it a couple days). Can’t sleep at all between the coughing and the Prednisone keeping me awake. My chest, back and ribs hurt so bad! I’ve never been in so much agony in my life! I was vaccinated as a child and when I was pregnant but I didn’t realize it wore off after 10 years (it’s been 12) and also thought it was a childhood disease. I just hope it goes away and doesn’t return when I’m finished with the Prednisone like it did before. I can’t take much more of this. I wouldn’t be surprised if people haven’t taken their own life over this. It sucks!!!
Thank you for leaving such a thorough reply. I've had a similar cough like the man in the vid for almost 3mos on/off. I had a homeopath recently tell me he thought I had whooping cough...I just don't have the 'whoop' sound, so I've been thinking it was just bronchitis. Now after seeing this, and reading comments, I really think I have whooping cough. Interestingly enough, I finally took the tdap shot this week. I was overdue by about 3yrs. I hope it helps, since I'm pretty sure what I've already been exposed to pertussis. My coughing spells start as a twinge in my throat on the left or right side, and then the corresponding eye tears up, and I start coughing incessantly, and my vocal cords tighten, and its hard to get breaths in after coughing all of the air in my lungs out. I've never passed out, thankfully. My doc never cultured my throat or did a blood test. She just gave me a different steroid inhaler, in addition to the albuterol. Now it makes sense why I feel better when I take a clove of garlic daily. It's a natural antibiotic. I'm just floored that doctor's miss this...
@@josieb9402thanks for this comment, Josie. I just started taking garlic today (both raw and capsule forms) and it's helping so much already. Chest is cleared, feel altogether less inflamed.
Thank you for writing down. I am currently going through this now, and your experience is so similar to mine. Just knowing that you went through the same, validates my own feelings, and that you are okay now, gives me hope. I'm sorry you had to go through this, but thank you. (Writing this at 2am in the UK after my worst fit yet).
I suffered from whooping cough when I was in seventh grade. I missed three months of school. I had attacks which ended in vomiting. when I finally got better and went back to school, the principal tried to convince everyone I had been faking in order to not have to go to school. needless to say, the principal was a roman-catholic nun.
I had what sounded like this the end of March 2020. Because that was the beginning of the pandemic, I didn't really find out if I had Covid (there were no tests at our hospital) or something else. I was so afraid I would die in the night, that for weeks I remained awake until around 5am until my husband got up. It was horrible. One night my teen asked me for a refresher on cpr, "just in case". I feel so much empathy for this man!
Ugh, I've heard the recognizable cough on babies, but on adults it's a totally different story. What a horrible and scary sound. This is torture. I hope he recovered. This is why vaccines are so important. Would you want to live through this?
my dad has it too..he is going to the doc today. its not that bad that this gentleman had. it happened to him at night at 3:30 am i was really scared even my dog! my stomach started to hurt after my dad even threw up. i was so scared. it was at sunday. my mom helped my dad to breathe like slowly but he paniced and if someone panics while they have it,it will get worse. so everyone who has it. i wish you the best. but really i am scared now if i will have it. but luckily we have doctors! really it was really scary! i literally almost throw up!
I have had this now for about 6 months despite vaccinations. It all started with a severe throat infection. At first my GP said that it was a virus infection,later whooping cough and now pneumonia. If you have this symptoms be aware of it that you might be a long time out of the running!
Part 1: If you're watching this video because you suspect you have whooping cough and you're experiencing the same things this gentleman is in the video then I have some personal experience that may help. Recently I'd been having episodes where I would cough and have a slight whoop afterward, finding it slightly hard to breathe. Then yesterday morning I had an episode similar to this video, only it was more "whooping" and less coughing. I could not catch my breath, and was sure I would pass out
I had whooping cough in 6th grade. I was an online gamer, and was on the phone with one of my friends. I ran from my phone, and into my kitchen (a little distance) and had a coughing fit. When I came back, he said he was 2 seconds away from hanging up and dialing the police. He lived in MO, and I live in IA.
Adult friend has had a cough for 3 months. I shared this video and she got tested - POSITIVE. Our childhood vaccinations for pertussis wear off. Be sure your vaccines are up to date!
I'm being treated for this right now. I'm an asthmatic who caught the flu. For those who don't know, asthmatics sometimes suffer 10 or even 50 fold, what would normally be a few days of annoyance for a non-asthmatic with the same virus/infection/irritation etc. 3 days of 60mg of Prednisone and Duoneb wasn't helping. Kept getting worse. Then I got to a point where I was coughing what felt like ALL my air out and couldn't stop!! Then just completely unable to pull any air back in again. This sickening pause. It FEELS like death. But when you finally get that draw on it, THAT SOUND is what comes out. It's because you're pulling soooooooo hard to get a breath after your body basically is forcing you to cough EVERYTHING out. It's awful and I'm still really scared. Dr says I have 2 days to get markedly better or it's into the hospital. If ANYTHING worsens from where I am now, it's into the hospital. Basically, better start besting this, it it's into the hospital! 🙌☹️ *(For those interested, and using this video for learning purposes... My meds are Prednisone 100 today, 80 for 2 days,60 for 2 days,40 for 2 days,20 for 2 days then 10 mg for about 8 more days. Duoneb vial every 6 hours. Budesonide inhalation suspension vial twice daily or up to 4 X daily as needed for wheezing/crackling. Azithromycin 5 day pk. Feeling my strength just LEAVE is the worst. My coughs are getting so weak. Walking across the room makes me just pant like I've run for a bit. I just feel like I'm fading, and its so hard to not panic when you just CAN'T breathe or do anything about it. (I always tell my non-asthmatic friends to run a quick sprint then stop and breathe through one of those tiny coffee stirrer straws. See how long you last!!!🙌 That greatly mimics the way it feels to be starved for oxygen and not be able to draw it up and into your lung though you are pulling with all you have. I hope this rant/vent/pity-party provided someone with some insight and maybe a bit more understanding and information than they had before on this condition, and on breathing/airway obstruction/lung disease/patient needs in general. If you've made it this far, you're either going to be a really good med professional OR your a really compassionate person... In either case, I wish you the best. Hope to catch you later around the YT..
KyssedByFyre I hope you’re getting better. I had it five years ago and experienced it exactly as you describe. I couldn’t walk more than a few steps either as it was like my oesophagus was closing. Sending you healing thoughts and prayers 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I agree about the asthma but I've had this cough all my life as I was born with asthma. For me the sucking noise doesn't imply that I'm getting any air at all. When I was a child I would end up vomiting myself awake from coughing in my sleep as my mother withheld my salbutamol. Covid reverted me right back to childhood. I've only been well for a few months at a time since 2021. I live in London and even though I was exempt I had to wear a face covering and go out as healthy people would approach anyone without a mask demanding they cover their face. I didn't want to be infected by an overzealous idiot but ended up weakening my lungs more. These people even took all the delivery spots for home shopping (and I know this is true as we were told how many disabled people are in the UK.. it didn't add up). I caught Covid and nearly died, was drowning in my sleep. Every single time I get a cold, this cough is how I spend my nights. It wakes me up, no matter how tired. I just wish I could rest. It's so embarrassing especially when after the Covid hysteria that healthy people went into.
I just had this. I went to the doctor, had a cough attack in front of her and she told me it was prolly just a complication for my rinitis and sent me home with a spray for my nose. I spent 2 whole months without sleeping at night. Take care of yourselves, guys.
This is so sad. I would never wish this on my worst enemy even if I didn't like them. That sounds very hard to deal with actually I even heard. A few kids in my hometown had this cough. A few years ago and I still live around that town.
it’s June 2nd 2024, i’m 15 and this is my 3rd month of having this cough (18th April). its so bad i don’t wish it on anyone. the way my throat almost closes up after a massive coughing fit is scary!
I've just been going through this for the last couple of months. Now I know why everyone around me was extremely frightened whenever I went into one of these fits. It was just so frustrating because I felt fine in between coughs and I wanted everything to be normal. On top of all this, I'm a singer and an actress and I auditioned for a musical in the middle of all my symptoms. Not fun at all!
Thank you for posting this video. My daughter was diagnosed with WC, without being tested. I think she has asthma and pneumonia (which the docs do also)....she's never had this Whooping sound!!! I certainly hope this gentleman is completely well! Blessings!
...from the fact he held up a finger and tried to say hold on, we can assume he was doing this to show what it sounds like, not that the doctors or whoever are just chillin behind the camera, props to the guy and hope he's better.
So happy you posted this. (Not happy you have it). I have had these episodes my entire life (66yrs). It can happen anywhere anytime, but most often while eating or drinking. It ends with vomiting which is lots of fun in a restaurant or trapped in the checkout line at Walmart. Trying to assure people I’m not contagious it tough when you can’t breathe, much less cough. I could never seem to get any medical professional to believe me or offer an explanation. This video is coming out the next time I get hit. Essentially Whooping Cough without the virus.
First, whooping cough is a bacterial illness, not a viral one. Second, if you aren’t also sick overall, that’s not what’s causing your cough now. This just doesn’t happen in bouts like you are describing. Something else is almost undoubtedly causing you to still cough now, and there are multiple possibilities. If you haven’t yet seen a good ENT, go find one. There are all kinds of tests they and speech pathologists can run to determine the cause of a chronic cough, and various ways to treat it.
Had whooping cough once and, yes, it's bad. The worse part was the thoughts you have that this might never end. Yet as bad as it made me feel, the worst thing that pertussis has ever done to me happened when it hit my daughter at eight month old. Dealing with it yourself is one thing, but to a child that young it is dangerous. Just knowing what it felt like didn't help either, I'm just glad that if she has to contract it that it was at an age where she has no memory of it now.
Gawd, I feel for you having your watch your baby go through that! I just saw another RUclips video with an even younger infant with it, and I don’t think I have ever seen a baby that sick and miserable in my life. It just about tore my heart out, and I just hope she recovered.
This is what i’ve got right now. Started in January. I’ve had two lots of antibiotics and nothings shifting it! I’m being sick every single night as it’s at it’s worst then. Barely any sleep. I’m absolutely exhausted let alone my family and next door neighbors having to hear me choking and gasping for air. I have to carry a cup around with me to spit the phlegm into 😢 it’s just tiny specks but there’s loads of it! My mom didn’t get me immunised as apparently in 89 when i was born, there were babies being brain damaged from it. She listens to scare mongers too much and now i’m suffering from it!
I have alot more sympathy for people falling for those scare mongerers back in the 80s because they had no internet to look things up. These days not so much.
As an adult in the later stages of whooping cough I was somewhat comforted to see a fellow sufferer, I should add that my coughing at times is worse than this episode shown and that I get very light headed and have on several occasions lost consciousness albeit for just a few seconds ...its very scary!
I actually had it worse then this guy. When I tried to inhale after coughing every molecule of air out my throat would clamp shut. Then a tiny opening would form to get a little air in and then a second later I would cough it out. It lasted approximately 5 minutes happening many times a day especially if you exerted any energy. It was like being waterboarded every day, several times per day and in my case for several months. If I ever get it again I'm going to put a bullet in my head, it would be more humane. You should be aware that there are other things that happen to you with this disease. Coughing so hard it makes you vomit even though your stomach feels fine, bruised ribs if lucky or cracked ribs if unlucky, constantly pulled back muscles so bad that you can't even walk, etc. I've had shingles and it was a breeze to live with compared to whooping cough. It is something you never, ever, ever want to get! MAKE SURE YOU'RE IMMUNE TO THIS BY ASKING THE DOCTOR TO BLOOD TEST GOR PERTUSIS IMMUNITY.
I had whooping cough for 6 weeks but I ignored it because it was giving me a free 6 pack by working my stomach muscles. I thought nothing of it, then it got worse where I would go into these coughing fits, I was almost suffocating and struggling to breathe and my eyes were water heavy.
I've had a weird cough lately. This is interesting, thanks. A good technique for clearing your airway if you've kinda choked on food/drink, is to INHALE through your NOSE ONLY, the COUGH OUT the MOUTH. That may help a little in this situation, by not bombarding the back of your throat with dry air, but then whooping cough is actually PERTUSSIS so any mechanical help may be limited.
I wish more doctors took this seriously. I had it several years ago and I was prescribed steroids and codine cough syrup. I was so sick that total strangers would stop me and ask if I was OK after a coughing fit. I pulled muscles in my back, I sometimes couldn't stand upright. I had the characteristic whoop gagging sound and everything. After 3 months of this, I demanded antibiotics and was better within days. In adults its common to not have a fever my docs didn't take it seriously
Bless him for allowing them to show this on youtube. Because I'm 32 years old and I have always heard about this terrible affliction but never knew anyone that had it. I've heard that they call it that because of the sound you make when you have it but I've never ever seen or heard anyone with it before and I've been curious all this time. Finally, I get to hear!
I actually have pertussis right now, started coughing about 3-4 weeks ago, only in the past few days it's gotten really bad. Honestly, I'm not going to lie, when I can't breathe during coughing spasms, they're literally the scariest moments in my life. Fuck whooping cough.
I’ve got this now, 3 times I’ve gone to docs then ERs ....they couldn’t hear my spam inhale episodes, because I tried not to cough as much....at home my coughs are worse than this guy’s...it’s that itch in throat that sets this off! I pray the Z pack will work🙏🏼 prayers to all🙏🏼🙏🏽🙏🏼🇺🇸
Weird but try anti-nausea medication it stops the cough from getting to the not breathing stage. When im almost due for my next dose I am back to square one fighting to breath. 4mg of Zofran worked initially now im up to 8mg. I hope this helps someone out there the way it helped me. I was so desperate for help and sleep. Weeks sleeping upright. Praying for your fast recovery ❤ 🙏🏾.
I'm learning about this right now. What really freaks me out is that the coughing can get so intense that it can pop a blood vessel in your brain or pop a lung. Good lord I'm glad there's a vaccine for this
This is crazy I get this EVERY YEAR. I never knew it was whooping cough I just assumed it was a viral chest infection that lasts around 2months. When I got suspected covid march last year, I literally couldnt breathe I was coughing/gasping so much 😳
pertussis immunity lasts for decades after infection, so this is extremely unlikely. there are many causes of paroxysmal coughing including acid reflux or pericardial cysts that need to be surgically removed. please see a doctor!
Being that age with whooping cough must be particularly hard on the body. I pray the gentleman was healed from this terrible affliction. Thank you for sharing so the rest of us can learn what this looks like.
he lived and recovered well. i remember the news story but finding it would be fairly difficult. he didn't suffer from it too bad/for too long :)
Oh definitely everything's harder at 60. I'm sure he got better.
I’m sorry and nice comment but I can’t stop laughing about that coming from your profile pic
I don't know but the cough is so loud so it's looks like coronavirus
He turned red quick
OMG my heart aches for the individuals who have to put up with this. That looks & sounds dreadful.
haroof the feeling that you are going to drown, or suffocate with no reason other than a cough.... horrible. just went through this.
Judgment Proof Me too. I have an inhaler now - having never had any problems previously. WC 2013.
I've had it. Its awful
Haroof for sure it is as its been 3 weeks now experiencing it
Judgment Proof Adult onset asthma can happen at any age anyway. Asthma just happens.
I had it when I was 13.. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. The whoop noise you near is actually a good thing.. Getting all the oxygen back into the system..
Kris Mannix im 13 and have it now so scared
@@amani9335 are you okay now, 2 months later?
@@amani9335 Cough pubity
@@jenson1569 0
karaokebaby35 0?
i can actually feel it i my lungs the urge to cough and the soreness, poor guy
The lungs isn’t even the worst part it’s not being able to breathe and coughing to the point of throwing up I have it right now also my core just aches like Crazy
Much respect to this man for allowing himself to be filmed. It's important that we all know what a whooping cough sounds like. Thank you sir!
I had whooping cough a few weeks ago. It is terrifying. The coughing fits are literally uncontrollable. If you try to swallow, your esophagus will close, and you will be unable to breath. Since you’re not technically choking there’s nothing anyone can do.
It feels like ur choking...i have it now but im getting better
Poor you
TDLF i keep seeing videos saying that its only for babies, but im 18 and i woke up at 4 in the morning, whooping for about a minute after uncontrollable coughing, which was followed up by a gagging reflex to throw up. it was one of if not the worst pains i have felt in my life
Gavin I’m 19 and I have it to but I only have a whooping cough attack once a day literally only once and throughout the resy of the day I’ll be good. I just hate that suffocating or chocking feeling and not being able to exhale . Is there anything that you do to make yours better ?
myles francois I couldn’t find a way exactly, but it got better over time, i promise. i barely have it now, but it did suck
man and I thought I had bad coughs before nothing compared to this
Dancingkay does whooing cough include gagging and vomiting?
@@chatnoir7298 yes,and its so uncontrollable..
I thought the coughs I had for coronavirus was bad! Nope! Nothing compared to this at all!
Right
Someone told me whooping cough is very basically like almost coughing lungs out. Something like that I coughed until my face turned red but not like this.
I have whooping cough right now and it's getting me down. I passed out from suffocating from it 4 days ago and it was the scariest moment of my life. It feels so much worse than you can imagine.
I couldn't breathe when I sat up from my bed I shit my self
How long does it last ?
I had it when I was in my late 30s. It was horrid. I would literally pass out daily. I would wake up very frightened and disoriented. I passed out in a book store one time. I hit the floor and bloodied my nose. No one even noticed. I woke up disoriented and ashamed. Let me know how your doing. Believe me Chelloowie it will pass. Shoot me a message if you are feeling down. I have been threw this and i can sympathize.
about 45 days
Several times I would be walking along start whooping then boom I would be waking up off the ground. The passing out is actually a good thing becuase its the bodies way of preventing you from suffocating. Best of luck folks. The dumbass doctor didnt know what I had until 30 days after I had it and it was too late by then so I had to ride it out.
Just going through this as an adult, it’s the first day I‘m feeling remotely better.
This video helped to show my husband how uncontrollable these coughing firs really are. Each time I had a fit he felt so helpless watching me like this, he tried to give me the advice to „breathe in calmly and cough more carefully or not so hard“ to not hurt myself.
Please don’t judge him. He’s a compassionate man and really only wanted to help, but during the fits this advice stressed me even more, cause as soon such a fit takes its course it‘s really IMPOSSIBLE to control control anything.
I‘m in my late 40‘s and can tell this doesn’t compare to any cough I ever had before. Sometimes I sat down on the toilet during a fit, cause otherwise I would have peed my pants. This cough is BRUTAL and I don’t wish it on anyone. Two times I threw up during episodes.
It feels like someone stuck a feather down your throat, tingling your lungs. Makes you feel like suffocating.
If you feel your cough is unusual violent, please see a doc early on. I didn’t, cause I thought everyone gets a bad cough here and there. If I went earlier, and took antibiotics earlier, it maybe wouldn’t have gotten that worse and wouldn’t have lasted that long.
This video helped me diagnose my own whooping cough. I went on to develop cough syncope and have now lost driving licence for 12 months. If only I'd come across this a few weeks earlier I may have avoided driving ban and hospital stay. If you're coughing like this seek medical attention asap!
I feel ashamed watching this guy struggle to breathe while I am taking deep, healthy, clean, and clear breaths... I hope he heals soon.
i have this now but not as severe. it feels like i have mucus deep down my lungs and the coughing is uncontrollable
Man, I caught this earlier this month but mine is nowhere near as bad as this guy.
Ouch.
How long did it take to heal?
John Ron About 1 week to 1 month.
Whooping cough generally takes 100 days to heal. In children at least. Perhaps it was something else?
Excellent diagnostic tool for healthcare workers and parents. Poor man! but thank you to him for allowing himself to be filmed🙏 will help in early diagnosis and help prevent spread when people know to isolate ill individuals.
Thank you for sharing your experience. I had whooping cough last spring and I use your video to explain to my people what it was, as nobody has a clue of how miserable you become with this. I used to pass out and vomit as well after these intense episodes.
Oh geez. What would happen after you came to from passing out?
Part 3: Trying to breath in lots of air quickly right after I'm done coughing only escalates things further. This new "process" I've been following has helped me avoid any further terrifying situations where I felt like I was going to pass out.
A couple of other things: Make sure you are very well hydrated. Sleep with water on the nightstand so you can hydrate at night if you wake up coughing.
Hope my experience helps someone else with whooping cough. It seriously sucks!
I'm 39 and I have the whooping cough RIGHT NOW ! It sucks . Salute to this gentleman, I hope he's okay.
All this time I thought whooping cough sounded like someone going WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP over and over.
I thought when you coughed someone came and whoop you.
Lol
Lol, I had it one time and I had no clue because I thought that too, but apparently the whoop was the sound of me gasping for for air when it felt like I was choking to death.
This makes me tense up a lot because you're just waiting for them to take that breath of air and they can't even do that because they feel like they gonna die just by coughing so hard
I’m going to hell for laughing at this
Omg I hate seeing things like this I get so emotional it's so sad to see people suffer like this. This is why I want to be a nurse or doctor to help people with their medical issues. I hate seeing people with whooping cough it makes me so sad just seeing them struggle to breathe and all of that stuff. I'm planning on studying pediatric oncology too so I can help ppl with their problems.
Judgment Proof Whooping cough (pertussis) is bacterial, not a virus.
Katie Encinas me too I want to be a pediatric oncologist
Katie Encinas best of luck from me... U r doing a really good job
I know that feeling. Studying medicine myself.
But there is something we all can do to help, doctors/nurses or no. Taking a firm stand against the "antivaxx" movements. They have no idea just how dangerous they are to the society and everyone in it.
@@0annonymous
Whooping cough is not viral - it's bacterial.
hope whoever got this get better
I hope this man got better. Listening and watching brought memories of going through this as a child.
I had whooping cough years ago and it was very scary. I literally felt like death was coming for me. I don’t want to know what pneumonia or corona virus feels like.
When you have this cough avoid dairy products and have something to fan your face with when you are in the middle of coughing and gasping for air that way you can get SOME air in your lungs. It helped me idk.
Covid is WAY better than this. I've had it. I expect Pneumonia wouldn't be this bad either.
@@mrpineapple3942 I think it was pretty much a toss-up between this and pneumonia.
Thnx for adding this video on you tube so everyone knows how sever are preventible diseases. Thnx again
The person recording really should be wearing a mask because this illness is extremely contagious, it is easily spread through air and anyone is vulnerable.
probably is
Trust me, this patient was in full isolation, and anyone entering the room was not only wearing a mask but was also gowned and gloved.
Wow, poor guy. I hope I'll never get a whooping cough it sounds terrible I hope he'll get better.
I strongly suggest you go see your doctor and demand to be vaccinated against it. You probably where as baby but the vaccins only work few years. so I have noticed in march this year. Well, it was half april when they finally did some blood tests and found it was no cold, no brochitis, no pneumonia and no astma but whooping cough. I have broken 2 ribs on the right side when coughing and 3 weeks later, when the pain was barable, torn the muscles of my ribs on the left side when coughing. That bad! But it is far worse. While coughing you suddenly have an empty bladder. Seriously, the coughing is that bad you can't hold up anything during the cough attack. Liquid and solid if have no diarhea (I did ...) It can be as bad as torning those muscles for life.
We are now september 1. The coughing is worse again. Due to cold and wet weather. This does not mean I am sick, it means my lungs are not cured yet. It is a lot better than in march/april/may but I'm far from healthy. Still very sleepy and energy level at -10. It has worn me out completely. Doctor told me most adult people are not that sick and don't even notice because it looks like a bad cold. But I will never take the risk again and in few years will get vaccinated. For now I'm immuun, have enough antibodies. I keep telling people to get vaccinated and specially get their baby vaccinated! This is no laughs.
Gehenna71 Thank you so much for your advice, wow that's terrible with what you have to go through. It sounds like it's a never ending cough. I'm sorry to hear about your situation I hope you'll get better and thank you again for your advice fortunately I've never had it before in my life.
Gehenna71 I tore muscles in my abdominal wall from this cough with only 2 episodes. 4 months later, still in physical therapy for it.
jackiejax that's terrible I hope you'll get better and What do you do for the physical therapy for it?
Eurodance90schick I want to know too because there was nothing for me besides painkillers. I had to go to work and do my job like everybody else.
Seeing him struggle to breathe and his skin turning red like that is so excruciating. Poor guy, hope he gets better.
Thank you for posting this. My daughter’s cough was getting progressively worse and we were able to talk to the doctors about it being possibly whooping cough
It sounds like he’s crying but he’s actually coughing. Glad I never had this
you actually do tear up and turn bright red and your chest and body tightens and you cant talk either! totally helpless.
@@kimberlyhaas1 ya I did hear about that
What sounds like crying is actually an uncontrollable spasm. Terrifying - and incredibly painful.
I got whooping cough at age 35 and was off work for six weeks. The paroxysms of coughing are unbelievable. I couldn't drive or cook, do anything really, I'd just end up on the floor. I was vaccinated as a child, which helps, I find it hard to believe that parent would put their children through this.
My 15 year old daughter had it last year for almost 6 months and she was vaccinated as a baby. Being asmathic it was really terrifying for her, and us, but she's al beter now. She got it from our neighbours kid, who isn't vaccinated.
So if you all were vaccinated and said it still was horrible did it really work? Were you all up to date on your boosters? I really want to do whatever I can to prevent it but seems avoidable since so many of you still got it.
Ashley Kiara I was vaccinated but never had any boosters I’m 32 and am just learning about them. I have had a cough like this about 4 times in my adult life but never as a child. I think I need boosters.
@@mytube6538 Me too on both counts
@@mytube6538 Tetanus, diptheria and pertussis should be boosted every 10 yrs. it comes as one shot - TdaP ♥️
absolutely terrible, my prayers go out to anyone suffering from this disease
I first contracted whooping cough in 1982 at age 22. It was so frightening to fellow passengers on a Greyhound bus that the driver put me off in the middle of small town in upstate New York. I ended up going to the police station where I was able to call my boyfriend to drive down from our college town to get me. It was diagnosed too late to do anything medically. I toughed it out, but it was a good three months before I noticed real improvement. Took about five months to fully resolve. Despite regular booster shots, I've had it twice since.
I’m struggling with this for the past 2 weeks. Never had it before. I can’t describe how dreadful this is. I vomited several times. At nights, usually around 3 AM it’s unbearable. I just don’t know what to do anymore. It’s started to affect me mentally.
Rub vicks on your chest and under your feet arches at night. Once a day take some Tumeric in a cup of warm milk will help alot as tumeric is a natural anti biotic. If you can try getting an air purifier for your bedroom as it will remove dust and bacteria in the air making it easier for your lungs breather beather.
I have it now too
Had this on Christmas day 2019. I was only 14 years at the time, but my god. Having to wake up immediately coughing your head and not being able to control your body is something I will never forget. I had the flu when it happened.
Part 2: I coughed, and tried breathing in, and just made the noise, and didn't actually take any breath in. I panicked, and kept trying to breathe, but again only making the whooping noise. After what seemed like an eternity I managed to catch my breath. Since that episode I've taken measures to do my best not to have another "attack" like that.
1: After coughing I close my mouth and just hold my breath for a moment.
2: After I've calmed I slowly breath in through my nose until things are okay.
After three weeks of misdiagnoses, I was finally diagnosed yesterday (correctly, I think) with pertussis, also known as whooping cough. I'm 58, and my cough is similar to this man's, though often more severe. Really bad attacks can lead to gagging, vomiting, and fainting. I've fainted three times. Now I know to remain in a sitting position when I have an attack. Fortunately, pertussis can be treated successfully with common antibiotics. There is a vaccine, and I've had it, but the version in use now is less effective than the older version, and it wears out. You may need a booster.
Its treated with antibiotics not to CURE it.... its Prophylaxis!! to prevent spread. I am NOT an anti vaccer, im a pediatric rn. sometimes even with vaccine, your titres can be low and there can be a possiblilty of contracting this awful disease!
i have this right now and its disgusting, ambulance came and done their checks and said theres no pneumonia or anything so i didnt need hospital and was so angry because the pain is absolutely unbearable, its the third week. if you know anyone with this stay away from them until theyre better
I'm currently going through this, I'm only 34 and it's hit me hard to the point I'm fainting and becoming injured, I can't imagine being an older gentleman battling it like this guy
Hello to all the people who are also watching this because they have whooping cough.
No because I’m study Bordetella pertussis
I have it now but nobody is helping me I went to the hospital twice at emergency department I was waiting for about a hour and and the nurse told me to go to the GP to give me antibiotics and Iam taking the antibiotics but still have this cough and even worse than that man and feel that hospital don't care
I have this too went to doctor, saw a paramedic told me it’s a virus and take paracetamol but has got worse since then, the feeling of suffocation is terrifying, hopefully i’ll get better soon, best wishes to all who are suffering this at the moment, I hope that man recovered well
@sandrawilliams7318 I still coughing since march
I feel like I have this aswell. Uncontrollably coughing, especially at night or laying down or waking up from sleeping. I'm on antibiotics but no signs of improvement. 😢 I need to ask my GP to actually test what I have instead of guessing and just putting me on Antibiotics that might not work.
sad thing is he can not help it and hes not being dramatic! your body takes over while your mind worries. You are totally helpless in this situation.
Have this right now. It's awfull. I thought i was getting better but my body just send me into a coughing fit that didn't let me breath for almost a minute and i've never felt this kind of panic before. It's awfull. Along with these coughing fits, you also have a harder time falling asleep, and this actually usually gets worse during and after sleep, so oftentimes you can't get more than a hour or a half of sleep before you wake up with coughing fits like this.
And it really gets you scared. Because on the one hand, you're just terribly ehausted. You don't sleep more than 3-4 hours a day, and you really, really need and want to just sleep, but you're way too scared to sleep because you know that whenever you awake, this is what will be awaiting you. So you rather just don't sleep at all.
It's easily the worst i have ever felt. Some people can get no breath so long that they just faint. Luckily it hasn't come quite that far for me yet, but still...
i have this right now 4 wks in. don't know how much more i can take. passing out often and seeing stars after coughing fit passes. also im asthmatic with complicates things
I know how much it sucks and sorry you had to experience it... This has been me every night for the past few weeks. Allergies+asthma=a bad time. I just threw up my dinner. I work up to 60 hours a week in a very physical role and have a qualification to do on the side. There is no cover so I can't take sick leave. I am breaking down in tears several times a day. I had mental health problems +other physical health problems to begin with but this on top because of irritation from allergies is driving me toward suicidal thoughts again.
Oh hun I’m so sorry to hear you had to go through that. That sounds terrifying
Me too. I have this for 2 weeks now.
same hope you got cleared of it and are doing well and that it never came back
I know how it feels I have it right now, every time I take a breath a cough comes out and won't stop
hanks for putting this up -- so sad hope this poor man recovered
Sounds like my Covid cough but I can’t find anyone else coughing like this with Covid. 💜to this man and his family.
Mommy When you wake up in the morning my head is hurting my head hurts my stomach hurt from that food like I ate was the sausage I think my four head burning up In the morning can you feel my forehead and then I’m gonna check my temperature morning temperature bad so why what happen if my temperature is high the temperatures high stay in my bed and rest when did you check it in the morning at actually my Eyes Burn I really bad it hurts eyedrops
Lol
Mommy My My head hurt really bad and my stomach hurt really bad so so so so so so bad so so so so bad mommy my stomach hurts so so bad to me so so so so bad so so so bad mommy forhead burning up mommy
Maybe you have both.
Bru covid wasent a thing 8 years ago read the date
My roommate was in his 20s and caught it. Took him months to get into a doctor but thankfully no one else in the house caught it from him, and he was much better after getting into proper treatment!
I’m so sorrry sir for u having whooping cough. May god heal u and protect u.
This was uploaded 9 years ago
Awe this breaks my heart, I'm just glad he was in good hands.
I remember having a cough like this when I was 15 or 16. I didnt know what it was then. It was so difficult to breathe when the coughing spells started.
That looks like hell, I’m so sorry for people who have to put up with this. I’m tearing up, poor man.
Hell might have actually been preferable.
I’ve had this now for 8 weeks. It started off as what I thought was just a cold. After about 5 weeks it got real bad. I started having coughing attacks and couldn’t breathe. I was so scared. I’d also cough so hard that I’d vomit. Nothing I did other than taking a hot shower helped (and that was temporary relief) I ended up at an urgent care and was diagnosed with Pertussis. FYI adults that get it often don’t have the “whooping sound”. I would gasp for air and was wheezing something terrible. They prescribed a Zpak, Prednisone, Albuterol Inhaler and 2 different cough meds. The meds seemed to help until about a week after I finished the Prednisone and Zpak. I’m in agony once again. Started having attacks again so severe I went to the ER just a couple days ago. Back on Prednisone and they added another inhaler in addition to the Albuterol. It’s providing some relief (I’ve only been on it a couple days). Can’t sleep at all between the coughing and the Prednisone keeping me awake. My chest, back and ribs hurt so bad! I’ve never been in so much agony in my life! I was vaccinated as a child and when I was pregnant but I didn’t realize it wore off after 10 years (it’s been 12) and also thought it was a childhood disease. I just hope it goes away and doesn’t return when I’m finished with the Prednisone like it did before. I can’t take much more of this. I wouldn’t be surprised if people haven’t taken their own life over this. It sucks!!!
Thank you for leaving such a thorough reply. I've had a similar cough like the man in the vid for almost 3mos on/off. I had a homeopath recently tell me he thought I had whooping cough...I just don't have the 'whoop' sound, so I've been thinking it was just bronchitis. Now after seeing this, and reading comments, I really think I have whooping cough. Interestingly enough, I finally took the tdap shot this week. I was overdue by about 3yrs. I hope it helps, since I'm pretty sure what I've already been exposed to pertussis. My coughing spells start as a twinge in my throat on the left or right side, and then the corresponding eye tears up, and I start coughing incessantly, and my vocal cords tighten, and its hard to get breaths in after coughing all of the air in my lungs out. I've never passed out, thankfully. My doc never cultured my throat or did a blood test. She just gave me a different steroid inhaler, in addition to the albuterol. Now it makes sense why I feel better when I take a clove of garlic daily. It's a natural antibiotic. I'm just floored that doctor's miss this...
@@josieb9402 bronchitis makes you wheeze and wake up with labored breathing, you probably had some sort of laryngospasm caused by rough coughing
@@josieb9402thanks for this comment, Josie. I just started taking garlic today (both raw and capsule forms) and it's helping so much already. Chest is cleared, feel altogether less inflamed.
@@danmcdaid WOW, you are welcome. somebody's comment helped me. I'm just paying it forward. be well..😃
Thank you for writing down. I am currently going through this now, and your experience is so similar to mine. Just knowing that you went through the same, validates my own feelings, and that you are okay now, gives me hope. I'm sorry you had to go through this, but thank you. (Writing this at 2am in the UK after my worst fit yet).
Poor soul... this is terrible. Sorry to see a resurgence in this after it was wiped out.
We can thank the effing antivaxxers for that!
I suffered from whooping cough when I was in seventh grade. I missed three months of school. I had attacks which ended in vomiting. when I finally got better and went back to school, the principal tried to convince everyone I had been faking in order to not have to go to school. needless to say, the principal was a roman-catholic nun.
"Needless to say" the principle was specifically that thing lol.
were you not vaccinated
WTAF???
is that the 'whoop' sound in between the coughs?
Judgment Proof I don't have the whoop sound, I think it's just bronchitis.
Whooping Cough Is A Pain in The Ass.
Aliyah Watson you would know if you had it. its horrible. feel like you cant breathe no matter what.
you would know... it's completely debilitating. in EVERY way. :( @@Shockwave33333333333
Aliyah Watson
The whoop sound is gasping for breath
Poor man. I had a bad cough and cold two days ago, and it was constant coughing, particularly hard to get to sleep because I was coughing in my sleep.
me a few days ago :(
what whoooooop when they breath in just hits me in the feels and is kind of scary
I had what sounded like this the end of March 2020. Because that was the beginning of the pandemic, I didn't really find out if I had Covid (there were no tests at our hospital) or something else. I was so afraid I would die in the night, that for weeks I remained awake until around 5am until my husband got up. It was horrible. One night my teen asked me for a refresher on cpr, "just in case". I feel so much empathy for this man!
Ugh, I've heard the recognizable cough on babies, but on adults it's a totally different story. What a horrible and scary sound. This is torture.
I hope he recovered.
This is why vaccines are so important. Would you want to live through this?
Lol I've just read about 20 comments of ppl saying they had it regardless of them getting the vaccine.
It's so scary to have these symptoms. Hope he's felling better
my dad has it too..he is going to the doc today. its not that bad that this gentleman had. it happened to him at night at 3:30 am i was really scared even my dog! my stomach started to hurt after my dad even threw up. i was so scared. it was at sunday. my mom helped my dad to breathe like slowly but he paniced and if someone panics while they have it,it will get worse. so everyone who has it. i wish you the best. but really i am scared now if i will have it. but luckily we have doctors! really it was really scary! i literally almost throw up!
I have had this now for about 6 months despite vaccinations. It all started with a severe throat infection. At first my GP said that it was a virus infection,later whooping cough and now pneumonia.
If you have this symptoms be aware of it that you might be a long time out of the running!
Part 1: If you're watching this video because you suspect you have whooping cough and you're experiencing the same things this gentleman is in the video then I have some personal experience that may help.
Recently I'd been having episodes where I would cough and have a slight whoop afterward, finding it slightly hard to breathe. Then yesterday morning I had an episode similar to this video, only it was more "whooping" and less coughing. I could not catch my breath, and was sure I would pass out
I had whooping cough in 6th grade. I was an online gamer, and was on the phone with one of my friends. I ran from my phone, and into my kitchen (a little distance) and had a coughing fit. When I came back, he said he was 2 seconds away from hanging up and dialing the police. He lived in MO, and I live in IA.
thank you for posting . this video confirms what i have thought , i have whooping cough ! 4 weeks and counting ....
Have u seek treatment yet ?
Adult friend has had a cough for 3 months. I shared this video and she got tested - POSITIVE. Our childhood vaccinations for pertussis wear off. Be sure your vaccines are up to date!
Yes You need a booster!
Thanks for uploading this video and I really feel bad about this person may God give him strength
I'm being treated for this right now. I'm an asthmatic who caught the flu. For those who don't know, asthmatics sometimes suffer 10 or even 50 fold, what would normally be a few days of annoyance for a non-asthmatic with the same virus/infection/irritation etc.
3 days of 60mg of Prednisone and Duoneb wasn't helping. Kept getting worse. Then I got to a point where I was coughing what felt like ALL my air out and couldn't stop!! Then just completely unable to pull any air back in again. This sickening pause. It FEELS like death. But when you finally get that draw on it, THAT SOUND is what comes out. It's because you're pulling soooooooo hard to get a breath after your body basically is forcing you to cough EVERYTHING out. It's awful and I'm still really scared. Dr says I have 2 days to get markedly better or it's into the hospital. If ANYTHING worsens from where I am now, it's into the hospital. Basically, better start besting this, it it's into the hospital! 🙌☹️
*(For those interested, and using this video for learning purposes... My meds are Prednisone 100 today, 80 for 2 days,60 for 2 days,40 for 2 days,20 for 2 days then 10 mg for about 8 more days. Duoneb vial every 6 hours. Budesonide inhalation suspension vial twice daily or up to 4 X daily as needed for wheezing/crackling. Azithromycin 5 day pk.
Feeling my strength just LEAVE is the worst. My coughs are getting so weak. Walking across the room makes me just pant like I've run for a bit.
I just feel like I'm fading, and its so hard to not panic when you just CAN'T breathe or do anything about it. (I always tell my non-asthmatic friends to run a quick sprint then stop and breathe through one of those tiny coffee stirrer straws. See how long you last!!!🙌 That greatly mimics the way it feels to be starved for oxygen and not be able to draw it up and into your lung though you are pulling with all you have.
I hope this rant/vent/pity-party provided someone with some insight and maybe a bit more understanding and information than they had before on this condition, and on breathing/airway obstruction/lung disease/patient needs in general.
If you've made it this far, you're either going to be a really good med professional OR your a really compassionate person... In either case, I wish you the best. Hope to catch you later around the YT..
KyssedByFyre I hope you’re getting better. I had it five years ago and experienced it exactly as you describe. I couldn’t walk more than a few steps either as it was like my oesophagus was closing. Sending you healing thoughts and prayers 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I agree about the asthma but I've had this cough all my life as I was born with asthma. For me the sucking noise doesn't imply that I'm getting any air at all. When I was a child I would end up vomiting myself awake from coughing in my sleep as my mother withheld my salbutamol.
Covid reverted me right back to childhood. I've only been well for a few months at a time since 2021.
I live in London and even though I was exempt I had to wear a face covering and go out as healthy people would approach anyone without a mask demanding they cover their face. I didn't want to be infected by an overzealous idiot but ended up weakening my lungs more. These people even took all the delivery spots for home shopping (and I know this is true as we were told how many disabled people are in the UK.. it didn't add up). I caught Covid and nearly died, was drowning in my sleep. Every single time I get a cold, this cough is how I spend my nights. It wakes me up, no matter how tired. I just wish I could rest. It's so embarrassing especially when after the Covid hysteria that healthy people went into.
I just had this. I went to the doctor, had a cough attack in front of her and she told me it was prolly just a complication for my rinitis and sent me home with a spray for my nose. I spent 2 whole months without sleeping at night. Take care of yourselves, guys.
This is so sad. I would never wish this on my worst enemy even if I didn't like them. That sounds very hard to deal with actually I even heard. A few kids in my hometown had this cough. A few years ago and I still live around that town.
it’s June 2nd 2024, i’m 15 and this is my 3rd month of having this cough (18th April). its so bad i don’t wish it on anyone. the way my throat almost closes up after a massive coughing fit is scary!
I've just been going through this for the last couple of months. Now I know why everyone around me was extremely frightened whenever I went into one of these fits. It was just so frustrating because I felt fine in between coughs and I wanted everything to be normal. On top of all this, I'm a singer and an actress and I auditioned for a musical in the middle of all my symptoms. Not fun at all!
Thank you for posting this video. My daughter was diagnosed with WC, without being tested. I think she has asthma and pneumonia (which the docs do also)....she's never had this Whooping sound!!! I certainly hope this gentleman is completely well! Blessings!
...from the fact he held up a finger and tried to say hold on, we can assume he was doing this to show what it sounds like, not that the doctors or whoever are just chillin behind the camera, props to the guy and hope he's better.
That hold on was a sign of helplessness and you can not talk all senses are out the window when the attacks start.
So happy you posted this. (Not happy you have it). I have had these episodes my entire life (66yrs). It can happen anywhere anytime, but most often while eating or drinking. It ends with vomiting which is lots of fun in a restaurant or trapped in the checkout line at Walmart. Trying to assure people I’m not contagious it tough when you can’t breathe, much less cough. I could never seem to get any medical professional to believe me or offer an explanation. This video is coming out the next time I get hit. Essentially Whooping Cough without the virus.
First, whooping cough is a bacterial illness, not a viral one.
Second, if you aren’t also sick overall, that’s not what’s causing your cough now. This just doesn’t happen in bouts like you are describing.
Something else is almost undoubtedly causing you to still cough now, and there are multiple possibilities. If you haven’t yet seen a good ENT, go find one. There are all kinds of tests they and speech pathologists can run to determine the cause of a chronic cough, and various ways to treat it.
Had whooping cough once and, yes, it's bad. The worse part was the thoughts you have that this might never end. Yet as bad as it made me feel, the worst thing that pertussis has ever done to me happened when it hit my daughter at eight month old. Dealing with it yourself is one thing, but to a child that young it is dangerous. Just knowing what it felt like didn't help either, I'm just glad that if she has to contract it that it was at an age where she has no memory of it now.
Gawd, I feel for you having your watch your baby go through that! I just saw another RUclips video with an even younger infant with it, and I don’t think I have ever seen a baby that sick and miserable in my life. It just about tore my heart out, and I just hope she recovered.
This is what i’ve got right now. Started in January. I’ve had two lots of antibiotics and nothings shifting it! I’m being sick every single night as it’s at it’s worst then. Barely any sleep. I’m absolutely exhausted let alone my family and next door neighbors having to hear me choking and gasping for air. I have to carry a cup around with me to spit the phlegm into 😢 it’s just tiny specks but there’s loads of it! My mom didn’t get me immunised as apparently in 89 when i was born, there were babies being brain damaged from it. She listens to scare mongers too much and now i’m suffering from it!
I have alot more sympathy for people falling for those scare mongerers back in the 80s because they had no internet to look things up.
These days not so much.
This video stands proof, that your cough or illness, isn't actually that bad, unless it is.
Oh my Lord, I hope this poor gentleman recovered from his infection. As a person with severe persistent asthma, I understand his suffering.
As an adult in the later stages of whooping cough I was somewhat comforted to see a fellow sufferer, I should add that my coughing at times is worse than this episode shown and that I get very light headed and have on several occasions lost consciousness albeit for just a few seconds ...its very scary!
I actually had it worse then this guy. When I tried to inhale after coughing every molecule of air out my throat would clamp shut. Then a tiny opening would form to get a little air in and then a second later I would cough it out. It lasted approximately 5 minutes happening many times a day especially if you exerted any energy. It was like being waterboarded every day, several times per day and in my case for several months. If I ever get it again I'm going to put a bullet in my head, it would be more humane.
You should be aware that there are other things that happen to you with this disease. Coughing so hard it makes you vomit even though your stomach feels fine, bruised ribs if lucky or cracked ribs if unlucky, constantly pulled back muscles so bad that you can't even walk, etc. I've had shingles and it was a breeze to live with compared to whooping cough. It is something you never, ever, ever want to get!
MAKE SURE YOU'RE IMMUNE TO THIS BY ASKING THE DOCTOR TO BLOOD TEST GOR PERTUSIS IMMUNITY.
I had whooping cough for 6 weeks but I ignored it because it was giving me a free 6 pack by working my stomach muscles. I thought nothing of it, then it got worse where I would go into these coughing fits, I was almost suffocating and struggling to breathe and my eyes were water heavy.
I've had a weird cough lately. This is interesting, thanks. A good technique for clearing your airway if you've kinda choked on food/drink, is to INHALE through your NOSE ONLY, the COUGH OUT the MOUTH. That may help a little in this situation, by not bombarding the back of your throat with dry air, but then whooping cough is actually PERTUSSIS so any mechanical help may be limited.
I think I have it now. How do you sleep????? Mine wakes me up every 5-10 minutes.
I wish more doctors took this seriously. I had it several years ago and I was prescribed steroids and codine cough syrup. I was so sick that total strangers would stop me and ask if I was OK after a coughing fit. I pulled muscles in my back, I sometimes couldn't stand upright. I had the characteristic whoop gagging sound and everything. After 3 months of this, I demanded antibiotics and was better within days. In adults its common to not have a fever my docs didn't take it seriously
That is sad. :( My prayers are with this family..
Bless him for allowing them to show this on youtube. Because I'm 32 years old and I have always heard about this terrible affliction but never knew anyone that had it. I've heard that they call it that because of the sound you make when you have it but I've never ever seen or heard anyone with it before and I've been curious all this time. Finally, I get to hear!
I remember this all too well unfortunately. Whooping cough 2013 from end March to beginning August of that year. Absolute nightmare.
Oh. My. Gosh. I feel so bad for the people that have this and pray that they get better
I’m just getting over this nasty cough. Been horrible.
I actually have pertussis right now, started coughing about 3-4 weeks ago, only in the past few days it's gotten really bad. Honestly, I'm not going to lie, when I can't breathe during coughing spasms, they're literally the scariest moments in my life. Fuck whooping cough.
I’ve got this now, 3 times I’ve gone to docs then ERs ....they couldn’t hear my spam inhale episodes, because I tried not to cough as much....at home my coughs are worse than this guy’s...it’s that itch in throat that sets this off! I pray the Z pack will work🙏🏼 prayers to all🙏🏼🙏🏽🙏🏼🇺🇸
Weird but try anti-nausea medication it stops the cough from getting to the not breathing stage. When im almost due for my next dose I am back to square one fighting to breath.
4mg of Zofran worked initially now im up to 8mg. I hope this helps someone out there the way it helped me. I was so desperate for help and sleep. Weeks sleeping upright. Praying for your fast recovery ❤ 🙏🏾.
I feel heartbroken by this! Has he survived it? I sympathize deeply!
He did survive!
Yall im 28 yo, please get the vaccine and booster for this. Worst sickness I’ve ever had. Worse than Covid flu mono, etc. in my opinion 😭
I experienced it as a teenager and it lasted almost a month for me. Not fun, very painful and unpleasant cough. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
i wouldn't even wish this on my worst enemy. pure hell.
I'm learning about this right now. What really freaks me out is that the coughing can get so intense that it can pop a blood vessel in your brain or pop a lung. Good lord I'm glad there's a vaccine for this
breaks ribs too
@@kimberlyhaas1 Fractured ribs are nothing compared to a stroke or rupturing a lung, though.
I hope he's alright🥺
Me too
This makes my heart ache, I hope he is okay to this day,
I wish that at 0:14, I heard "Same to you!" instead of "aww." It would have been much better.
This is crazy I get this EVERY YEAR. I never knew it was whooping cough I just assumed it was a viral chest infection that lasts around 2months. When I got suspected covid march last year, I literally couldnt breathe I was coughing/gasping so much 😳
Next time it happens: uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh whoop back at you.
Plz tell me...how long it lasts and how do u treat it.....?
pertussis immunity lasts for decades after infection, so this is extremely unlikely. there are many causes of paroxysmal coughing including acid reflux or pericardial cysts that need to be surgically removed. please see a doctor!
Please update, how is he doing? Poor guy, I'm sorry he's suffering with this. My prayers are going up.
I feel like crying right now i feel so bad for this guy🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺