Been this way for 3 weeks.
Hit me in the middle of changing doctors.
For the first two weeks, endless runny noses, plus Phlegm, coughing & very weary.
Now? Phlegm, coughing & very weary.
Went to an urgent care & I am on antibiotics.
I feel a little better.
Unless it’s the Placebo effect.
I’m self-isolating.
Seems like that shit is going around, everyone I know is sick. (knocks wood) Take care of yourself.
When the temps went from the high 50s to the 20s around Christmas, I knew my sinuses were going to blow up. I was totally not surprised when they did.
I managed to stave off anything worse than a stuffy, snotty nose by taking a decongestant, drinking tons of liquid, and sleeping a lot (mostly sitting up because laying down made it harder to breathe). Thank goodness I was on vacation from work!
I am so glad it didn’t turn into a cough (I hate coughing! Argh!) but I was still dealing with some symptoms after 3 weeks. Seems like it’s totally cleared up now.
Make sure you’re hydrating! Water, broth, ginger ale, Gatorade. If you feel stopped up at night, take a hot hot steamy shower and have a few good coughs and spits in the shower before you go to bed. I usually let the water pour over my chest for a bit, get some good steamy deep breaths in, and give my chest a few good thumps.
I’m glad you’re feeling a little better. It’ll probably be another week or so yet. Ugh.
Over NYE my GF & I did a cruise. With 6000 other people, most of whom were obviously from the chilly part of the country. And 1000 of whom were under age 10. Don’t ask what we were thinking.
Anyhow, she came home w the OP’s disease, or something very similar. She’s now, 14 days later, almost normal again. Almost. Somehow I survived unscathed. Her PCP says “Yeah, it’s going around everywhere.”
Take ALL the antibiotics and rest, rest, rest! You’ll be fine in no time.
That sounds like me. Been sick since last year. Video visit got me a course of antibiotics and started feeling better right away. But never got fully better. Took last antibiotic the other day and now my throat is getting sore and I’m coughing more.
Probably need to have someone look at my lungs to make sure it’s not pneumonia.
About one in four times I get a cold (virus) I also get a sinus infection. I think the bacteria take advantage of my weakened state. Urgent care hooks me up with antibiotics and I typically feel noticeably better in a day or less.
Aren’t all these things caused by viruses?
How do antibiotics work on that?
So then it gets bacterial and you’ve taken all the pills too soon. Oops.
I tried, when my kids were small to time it just right if they showed signs of virus, allergy and sinus stuff.
Never quite got it perfected.
And, yes knock on wood my grandkids aren’t toting germs.
Wear a mask if you’re sick. Use antibacterial hand cleaner. Spray that Lysol.
I swear, we are Nazi about it. Trying to keeps the germs at bay.
I definitely can’t afford a bad infection.
Common cold is a virus. Secondary sinus infections are bacterial.
I read, somewhere that 75% of upper respiratory and sinus infections are viral.
Anything can turn bacteria, I suppose.
Just do what the doc says, best practice. I think.
I’ll stop sounding like your Mother now. Feel better soon.
I’ll get sinus infections from time to time. It’s almost certainly a virus. But I’m sick and weakened and open to other kinds of infections (like bacterial). So usually if I decide to take an antibiotic it’s preventive, and mostly to prevent bacterial pneumonia.
In that case I am one of the 25%. It doesn’t happen with most of my colds but sometimes it does and I am literally diagnosed by an MD and the antibiotics cure me. I can tell the difference.
I’ve had the crud for about a week. I’m feeling better, less snotty, but I fear my ear may have gotten plugged up and will get an infection. I used to get those all the time as a kid.
I’ve had sinus crud off and on for about two weeks now. The drainage is the worst, makes my throat sore and I can function through just about anything but a sore throat.
I went out on December 23 to go to the bank and a (crowded) bakery. I got sick Dec. 26: chest congestion, runny nose, but no headache, fever or sore throat. Worst of all was that I couldn’t lie down or recline without starting to choke and cough. That meant no sleep for about a week. I also had to miss my mom’s NYE dinner (which sounded great). Getting better seemed to take forever. I am still not quite 100%. Talking at length brings up fluid in my throat and makes me cough.
A friend who knows more about medical stuff than I do (a very low bar) thought I might have Respiratory syncytial virus - Wikipedia. I dunno: some of the symptoms fit, some don’t. I suppose it doesn’t matter as long as it’s going away.
I recall as a kid that being sick was kinda fun: no school, home all day watching TV. As an adult, sickness is only about the suckage.
Hope you feel better soon.
I had a diagnosed case of RSV about a year ago. I had this “cold” that wasn’t going away, so on a Sunday afternoon, I went to a walk-in clinic, where they swabbed me, and called me on Tuesday to tell me what I had. It eventually did go away.
The swab went about 2 inches up each nostril, and was designed to test for RSV, COVID, influenza A, and strep, all in one.
At first glance I was worried the OP had Sick Sinus Syndrome
;-D
Get help.
QUICK!
It’s so prevalent here that drug dealers have been turning meth back into Sudafed.
Seriously, I got it too. Best wishes to fellow sufferers.
I’m in the recovery stage where the infection is passing but the antibiotics have also killed off the trillions of ‘good’ bacteria in my intestines. I’m wedded to the bathroom in case of an emergency ‘colon blow’. Waiting to get a SOLID result. 
Also, picture my wife in the background wagging her finger, ‘you should have seen the doctor two weeks ago.’