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@extracare808, Hi. Did they test you for Valley Fever also? (coccidioides immitis- fungus) I had that when I lived in Az. It ate a hole in my lung. I was quite ill from it for two months. Many people get this when they go to Az.
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Hi Terri. Yes, they gave me 6 different cocci blood tests. In fact, cocci was what the ER strongly suspected I had after my bout of hemoptysis. They say that the false negative rate on cocci tests can be as high as 70%. The culture isn't showing cocci, but some other fungi (which had a very long name I can't remember).