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