I had an encounter with norovirus and ended up in intensive care for two days. I was thinking the worst of norovirus was over and went back to work for a day. I wasn't feeling well after work and I was very short of breath when someone called an ambulance.

I thought norovirus and dehydration caused all the problems. I do know that all hell broke loose with my autoimmune and other medical conditions simultaneously. I needed 60 mg Prednisone to quiet things down but prednisone isn't a good treatment for norovirus.

The doctors in the intensive care unit were saying maybe it was my high dose and long term use of Prednisone that caused SOME of the problems. They also said there was no question that I needed a high dose of Prednisone with the runaway freight train of an immune system I have. It was a "cascade of blood related events" was the best they could surmise.

I recovered completely but not right away. A week after I was discharge from to hospital, I discussed the whole ordeal with my primary care doctor. We were discussing the massive bilateral pulmonary embolism I had and the need for warfarin and other long term care and goals. My primary care doctor was "noncommittal" about what caused everything to flare up all once like it did. He even apologized that he might have missed something. I do recall his exact words though. He said, "People get norovirus all the time and what happened to me doesn't usually happen." He then added that I was lucky to still be alive.

Everything resolved with time but I had more frequent follow-up visits including several new doctors like a pulmonologist and a hematologist during the year that followed. The new doctors had no explanation for what happened to me either.

How recent was this norovirus infection you had? I wasn't able to go from 60 mg to 7.5 mg until years later. Were you unscathed?