Hi Everyone,

It's been a long time I haven't visited this forum. Although my SOB improved a lot lately, my coughs got worse (and very annoying that everyone thought I had covid...), so I visited another pulmonologist, who actually took me seriously. First, he thought it was a virus infection caused asthma, but as asthma treatment didn't work as expected, he made me tested for two rare bacteria: chlamydia pneumoniae and mycoplasma pneumoniae. The results obviously showed that I got the latter.

Mycoplasma can cause atypical (or walking) pneumonia, meaning that you don't necessarily have a temperature or fever, nothing will be heard when the doc listens to your chest, and it's possible that x-ray comes back normal, too, just in my case. It builds up slowly, and at some point, you just realize that you had a feeling of chest congestion and unable to take a deep breath. It can last for months or even years. Most people don't even notice it and recover by themselves without any antibiotics and symptoms, or with just a sensation of a mild cold. I've been having it for more than seven months now.
And the "best" part is that it can behave like a herpes virus: it comes back from time to time, so maybe more rounds of antibiotics are needed.

I'm taking antibiotics now (doxycycline), it's the second day, and I already coughed up more mucus than in the last two months altogether. And with each productive cough, I feel relief.

If you have similar symptoms, I encourage you to get tested for these two bacteria's IgA, IgM, and IgG, because it can be treated by the proper antibiotics in the proper dosage.

Hope it helps someone else, too.