Latest awful lurgey

Yeah... something going round. I almost never get sick (43YO) but had 4 colds this winter. Tested negative for COVID. The third one kncoked me on my arse for 2 days, I actually had to call in sick to work.

Coughing/ cold/ headache/ weakness/ wanting to vomit from the cough.

It fixed itself but came back a little bit a week later, still have it. Just a little cough now and then.

I started with something 3 weeks ago. Everything ached and I had an awful cough. I put it down to working outside, it was very icy and all my effort went into staying upright, so that's what I thought the aches were. At one point my back and side were hurting from the coughing.
This week I still have the cough, think I pulled something coughing the other day, cos I'm in agony.

Meanwhile husband started with the cough Monday, his temperature kept spiking and he was having trouble breathing, I ended up phoning NHS who promptly sent an ambulance, they think it's developed into a chest infection (he's coughing up some horrible crap). So he's on antibiotics, barely eating and doing lots of sleeping. I can't sleep due to the pain in my ribs. It's like the night of the living dead here!
Don't know if its a good or bad thing that we had both booked leave for this week, as holidays go, we've achieved a grand total of naff all!

I felt a bit st Sunday night out of nowhere. Just went freezing cold and couldn’t get warm. Thought I’d slept it off and went to gym 6am. Worked a bit and again just couldn’t get warm so called it a day around 3pm.

Been off since. Really weird as I’ve felt cold and then sweaty and warm, but not typical flu as not had a sore throat, runny nose. Started with a cough yesterday.

Genuinely felt wiped out, been in bed and on the couch all week. I’m usually back to work after a day or so and haven’t been off I’ll in ages.

Exactly the same here. 4th day of it for me, but got way worse last night. Had been managing with ibuprofen and paracetamol before but not now. Spitting unto a bowl to save swallowing or drippling! Grim.

Seems I have regressed to where I was around 4 / 5 weeks ago with this cough!

Same symptoms, can never seem to be able to clear my throat, always tickly - big heaving coughs, sore ribs from the amount of coughing, waking during the night.etc

Its made a gradual comeback after I finished a course of antibiotics two weeks ago.

Call to the GP early next week again methinks - whatever this is, its very, very odd.

Mine also returned; just been given a repeat of the ABs; coughing like a braying donkey

Yeah the nausea thing. I find i get it after I cough or am in an unusual position (Say when stretching/ yoga)
Weird

Six of us around a table last night; we laugh after someone cracks a funny, five laughs turn into the same wheezy hacking awful cough (me included). All five of us have been doing this for literally months… WTF, it’s like a John Wyndham novel

Not sure what the latest awful lurgey is, but I'm pretty sure I have it. Like so many other posts here, I'm a fit and healthy individual, I pay a lot of attention to my diet, ensuring it is nutritious and loaded with antioxidants. I sleep well and I exercise lots. Colds are something that are normally experienced once every couple of years, and generally brushed off without too much pain or effort.

At the beginning of February I started with a mild cough. Not thinking too much of it, I ignored it and carried on as usual. By the time we went on holiday on the 8th it had progressed to some mild pain down the left side of my chest. We go to Tenerife and I love to run every day in the warm weather, so I was determined to continue ignoring it, which ultimately was a stupid thing to do. I woke one night breathless and the mild pain had been replaced with a sharp stabbing pain each time I coughed or breathed in deeply. I saw a doctor the next day who said I had bronchitis, and he prescribed a seven day course of antibiotics, saying I'd feel better within five days. With a week of lying in the sun ahead of me, I was pretty confident I'd shift it, but when I returned home I still wasn't 100%. Then it progressively got worse to the point where I saw a doctor this week and was prescribed another seven days of antibiotics. I've gone from running 40 miles a week, to feeling out of breath just walking the dog.

I guess my lesson is to be sympathetic to the first signs that I may be coming down with something. I rarely rest, but quite often I credit not getting ill to that, feeling like rest is me putting down my guard.

Update from me after three weeks.

Its still with me - turned into what feels like a heavy cold about two weeks ago, never been through so many tissues!

Cough is still there, granted not quite as bad as it was.
Not been able to taste or smell anything for weeks on end.

I am feeling a little more "alive" now though, the fatigue seems to have passed, so hopefully I'm on the up.

My mum also came down with very similar symptoms around three weeks ago and my youngest (19-months) after taking him to the GP twice in a fortnight has now been diagnosed with a chest infection, so he's back on antibiotics.

The comment above about the group of friends turning into coughing fits was the same for me last weekend - its uncanny.

The cynical side of me is now starting to feel that somethings not quite right, or being kept quiet.
If this was covid then I'd understand, but when I had that back in 2021, it was a walk in the park in comparison.