DJD Its an upper respitory virus.Does that work for you?Thats what my doctor told me, when I queeried her further she said the tech term is yer sick! This is similar to one that was around about 5 years ago. Over the counter measures are usless, and an injectable antibiotic is the first thing in knocking it out. The netie pot worked a little, but then the saline that was in the sinus would drain, and it made living hell.So now its a 1000ml of cipro, an albutural inhaler,a narcotic cough syrup, and musinex, and time. The emergency rooms are packed with folks getting the IV meds, and its contagious as heck.But I'm feeling good enough to resume smoking, why? My son who had heart proceedures just two weeks ago was admitted again with cardiac distress, So its back to coffee smokes and waiting for news.Got his call tonight, this was brought about by a medication problem. We were taking the same meds, and it was a wrong mixture, going to make an appointment with my cardio doc this week.