Has anyone contracted a bad case of bronchitis recently? I had terrible migraine 10 days ago, which does regularly happen to me about once a month. I awoke on Saturday with a dry cough and snot and by Sunday I was rattling, wheezing, and sloughing off green mucus.
The worst part of this has been my utter exhaustion; I’ve literally been flat on the couch for 9 days. A walk around the backyard drains me. I just showered and answered email (and played on SD) and I am absolutely drained. I’ve had an intermittent very low fever on and off (99.9).
Anybody else contracted this plague? Were you horribly exhausted for a week+? I’ve considered going to urgent care, but invariably it will be diagnosed as a virus and I’ll get some useless cough syrup. Cough cough cough, sniff
Had it for almost two months in January and February. Plague is a good word for it, I was a wreck. My doc treated it as bacterial given what was coming up and the ongoing fever, helped a lot but the cough (in a less wet fashion) and exhaustion lingered for another month.
Wife and kid were sick for what seems like months recently. I swear, it’s been like living in a freakin’ TB ward, circa 1910 with all the coughing and hacking.
I somehow managed to dodge it. I credit the frequent drinking.
I can think of only one cold I’ve had in the past six years or so that didn’t lead to 2 to 3 weeks of bronchitis. So, probably. I was most recently that sick in December.
I agree, yours sounds pretty serious. I had what you describe without the total lack of energy. I felt rundown for a couple of months but could still function fairly normal. My cough lasted over 3 months.
Well, see, I could’ve done myself in: I used to get 3 or 4 sinus/bronchitis spells a year. The mildest of the bunch turned out to be walkin’ pneumonia (without the boogie-woogie flu); I wouldn’t have bothered going to the doc except I was coughing so long and hard that I would black out. Once while I was driving (managed to get off the road and into Park before lights out.). YMMV.
ETA: No fever with my WP , however, I run cold anyway and 99 is knock-me-out fever.
I feel your pain, literally and figuratively. Although I am FINALLY getting better, I have been laid low with respiratory this-and-that for about a month. It’s truly sad to awaken hopefully in the morning thinking, “maybe today is the day I’ll start to improve!” only to fill a tissue with greenish-yellow snot yet again moments later.
(Actually in my case I think it was two separate colds back-to-back. I got sick about 10 days before I had to get on multiple airplanes. I was nearly over being ill when I had to fly, but the insides of my nose/sinuses were burningly dry and irritated during all the flights. I figure I picked up cold #2 with a vengeance due to breathing recycled germs into my exposed, ready-to-embrace-a-new-virus nasal passages.)
Times like that, I wish I could have nasal stents implanted.
Had it a month ago, it wasn’t fun.
Oddly enough, the “bacteria factory” co-worker who brought it into the office and caused a dozen people to take sick days is still coughing.
More Fun Facts: We live in NE Florida and there’s a wildfire burning in SE Georgia. A month ago, the wind shifted and blew the smoke better than 30 miles in our direction. My wife got sick immediately but I was lucky. For 10 days. I caught it from her; never knew it was contagious, now I know. She’s still hacking a month later, despite two doctor visits and two courses of Z-pack. Mine wasn’t as bad but it really goosed my asthma. The inhaler is $240 :eek::eek:.
I dread airplane rides; no matter which seat I’m in, there will be just enough of a whiff of jet exhaust to set off a sinus/bronchitis attack. I swear I can see its red eyes searching for me amongst the passengers.
I get chest coughs periodically. Best thing I’ve found for symptomatic relief, is generic Mucinex. The exhaustion I’ve had seems to lift when my chest mucus loosens up.
Coworker had it - she was hacking and coughing for the better part of three months. I got the first sign of it on a Friday before a three-day weekend. I stayed in bed the whole time and was OK for work on Tuesday. Coughed for another week or two.
I really think the ability to just sleep saved me.
I work in a preschool, and parents keep sending their kids to school sick. We had to send the same kid home twice in the same week with a fever (over 101 one time). They tried to tell us she was “just teething.” The mother came up sick the next week. The lead teacher said she wanted to say to the mother “You must be teething.”
We looked up some pediatric websites that busted the myth that kids run fevers when they are teething. We want to send something home, because we’re really tired of getting kids who have fevers, runny noses and diarrhea, and the parents say “Oh, he’s teething.”
Of course, there are also the parents who dose the kids up with cold medicine, Tylenol and Imodium, and send them, but the kid is still miserable and cries all day. We send the kid home as soon as the medicine wears off, and we get a temperature of a disgusting diaper.
But I still get sick. I wash my hands like crazy, and try not to touch my face, but I still get sick.
, however, I run cold anyway and 99 is knock-me-out fever.
