Very sick around 3 weeks to 4 weeks ago.  Kaiser doctors said it was a common cold. but I was coughing so badly I was coughing up blood.  I would also vomit because of the cough.  I took Amoxocillin, it seemed to help.  I was fine up until around 3 days ago.  The cough came back, more around an hour or so after I woke up and would last 2-3 hours.  So badly I'd nearly vomit again.  This has been the case for a couple of weeks.  Today I woke up and was coughing again.  It was fairly bad, I vomited once.  I was okay afterwards, worked a full workday.  I went home and started to experience a very strange pain in my throat, much like the pain from the illness before, but this time it was lower in the throat.  It hurts very much every time I swallow and during the day it's painful just to breathe.  My medical history is simple, past 6 years of hypertension and when I was 8 I had micoplasma pneumonia which nearly took my life.  I was hospitalized for over 30 days.
I'd like to get through this problem without major implications, is there a doctor out there who will hear me without the beat of the kaiser HMO drum in the background?
I'll go see anyone else if it means I don't die of pneumonia again (I coded three times during the micoplasma bout)
Thank you
James
                                                        
                                                     
                                                    
                                                        
                                                            
                                                            
                                                            
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