Latest awful lurgey

[Byker28i]

ajap1979 said:

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.

Theres a varient of whooping cough doing the rounds (100 day cough is another name they are calling it). Lots around. My wifes had it since end dec/early jan, I got it early march, just getting over it, but still feel tired quickly

[AlexGSi2000]

Well, think I'm finally coming to the end of whatever I had.
Various iterations since the first week in Jan - that's 4 months.

Lingering cold symptoms started clearing up last week - still have the occasional cough, but its calming down, sense of taste and smell seems to be gradually coming back.
Not been able to fully enjoy a meal for months!

The little one has developed a runny nose / cough over the past two days, so I'm fully expecting to have contracted that by the end of the week.

For the time being I'm taking delight in the fact I can taste food again.

[Belfast Bap]

I managed to avoid covid, though I did get the jabs for work and travel reasons. I have been bed ridden for almost ten days now and don’t seem to be getting any better. At the start it felt like a very bad cold but over the last week or more it has been truly awful. I didn’t think it was possible to feel this bad without actually dying first. I don’t get ill very often but this is on a whole new level. What if anything makes this better/go away?
Every inch of me aches

[mcelliott]

Feeling rough for the first time in about 6yrs, the worst hacking cough I have ever had, sound like a 60 a day man, didn't know it was possible to produce some much crap, color range is cool though, bright green through to hard brown lumps, I presume the are sections of decaying lung, probably around day 5 or 6 now, was really impacting on my sleep which made it worse, that was until I started taking Benylin the drowsy one, wow 8hrs straight through.

[king arthur]

Belfast Bap said:

I managed to avoid covid, though I did get the jabs for work and travel reasons. I have been bed ridden for almost ten days now and don’t seem to be getting any better. At the start it felt like a very bad cold but over the last week or more it has been truly awful. I didn’t think it was possible to feel this bad without actually dying first. I don’t get ill very often but this is on a whole new level. What if anything makes this better/go away?
Every inch of me aches

Same here, avoided covid throughout the entire pandemic but this got me.

I found the remedies that worked best were the ones that contain paracetamol, phenylephrine hydrochloride and guaifenesin. And hot lemon made with real lemon juice with some ginger added, tastes disgusting but helps you feel better. Wrap yourself up in bed and sweat it out.

[Belfast Bap]

king arthur said:

Belfast Bap said:

I managed to avoid covid, though I did get the jabs for work and travel reasons. I have been bed ridden for almost ten days now and don’t seem to be getting any better. At the start it felt like a very bad cold but over the last week or more it has been truly awful. I didn’t think it was possible to feel this bad without actually dying first. I don’t get ill very often but this is on a whole new level. What if anything makes this better/go away?
Every inch of me aches

Same here, avoided covid throughout the entire pandemic but this got me.

I found the remedies that worked best were the ones that contain paracetamol, phenylephrine hydrochloride and guaifenesin. And hot lemon made with real lemon juice with some ginger added, tastes disgusting but helps you feel better. Wrap yourself up in bed and sweat it out.

Thanks I’m already on the lemon and ginger and thankfully I can’t really taste it. Went for three days there with very little sleep but one hot whisky knocked me out last night. When you hear than someone has the flu you think a day in bed and some hot tea and sympathy but this is absolutely dreadful.

[smashy]

Wow what a week. Came back from a few days in cornwall went to Newquey whic it seems was rife with covid. Came back last week did not test but have had a nasty bout of something 3 days lolling around in bed a cough that has strained my abs etc.What really did me was it took my brain into a reall downer,full of all my regrets,the wrong turns I have made not as young as I was,could not get out my head this hill called mount wise that I drove up last week in newquey but could easily run it when on holiday and now getting up the stairs is not easy lol all these negatives running round my head and got weepy a couple of times it was horrible.I am over the worse of it and feeling more positive again,very odd virus

[Pupp]

News yesterday full again of whooping cough on the increase stories… I suspect there’s been far more of that around than even the stats these reports are citing evidence. I know what I had for weeks on end was not a ‘normal’ flu bug; the cough would kill a small donkey, and the noises I was making would have been sound effect gold to the radiophonic workshop.

PH ahead of the curve as usual

[Belfast Bap]

Cough still lingering despite a course of antibiotics but otherwise feeling much better. This seems to be everywhere.

[thatsprettyshady]

Belfast Bap said:

Cough still lingering despite a course of antibiotics but otherwise feeling much better. This seems to be everywhere.

Honest question, why use antibiotics for a cough?

[Boobonman]

This thread making me feel a lot better about my current situation as it doesn't seem to be unique one.

Did the worst thing and started googling and managed to convince myself I had some sort of throat cancer.

Had a one sided sore throat for over three weeks now, mixed with intermittent swollen glands, bit of chesty cough, high temp on and off.

Kids have all been on antibiotics for chest infections, I just seem to have been in the pre-illness rough stage for weeks with no sign of it developing into a full blown sickness.

[Belfast Bap]

thatsprettyshady said:

Belfast Bap said:

Cough still lingering despite a course of antibiotics but otherwise feeling much better. This seems to be everywhere.

Honest question, why use antibiotics for a cough?

I went to the out of hours GP and he had a good listen to my chest, he said a course of antibiotics would help.

[asfault]

Been coughing up green lumps of the thickest crap i can remember every morning.
How long does it take to pass?
Should i go to the docs for antibiotics or is that just the go to answer.

[Upinflames]

asfault said:

Been coughing up green lumps of the thickest crap i can remember every morning.
How long does it take to pass?
Should i go to the docs for antibiotics or is that just the go to answer.

I'm the same as you, coughing quite a bit until I get it up then relax and wait for the next bit. I'm resisting going to the doctor though, I don't want antibiotics

[Drumster]

Mine started last week of March, totally wiped me up for a couple of weeks and then seemed to be turning the corner only for it to rear it's ugly head again. Went to Docs a few weeks ago as bringing up chunks of phlegm he said my chest was clear but gave me a course of antibiotics (probably just to appease me) but they had no real effect. Now seem to have a constant tickly chest and still coughing up bits and bobs. Kinda getting fed up with it now....

[Timothy Bucktu]

thatsprettyshady said:

Belfast Bap said:

Cough still lingering despite a course of antibiotics but otherwise feeling much better. This seems to be everywhere.

Honest question, why use antibiotics for a cough?

Stop it becoming a chest infection, or worse still...pneumonia, especially in the elderly.
My Mum had this cough which really knocked her out...its more than a normal cold & cough type thing. Doc put her on antibiotics.

[mcelliott]

Well it’s now week 4, the really bad hacking cough and mucus of every color has eased BUT now find I am getting a lot of post nasal drip, literally having to clear my throat every five minutes much to the annoyance of everyone and the constant clearing is causing a sore throat, I fairly certain I am suffering from Bronchitis that was acute and is now chronic or it has really inflamed my sinuses, a quick google search suggests there’s not much the doctor can do and symptoms can come and go for months or even years! Oddly I actually feel fine when I exercise.

[Peanut Gallery]

Thread resurrection..

Came back from holiday in late July, immediately down with another lurgy, guessed it would be the plane.

Had a think.

I have been down with one form of a lurgy after another since we bought a new mattress - one that is soft for SWMBO, so as I slept my waist was higher than my head. I have taken myself to the spare bed and its been a few weeks with no lurgy (OK, the occasional quick passing thing from the kids at school) but feeling an absolute ton better. - Now to "just" regain my fitness.

(I did try raising the head of the bed so I slept horizontally, this worked, but then SWMBO was not happy.)

TL:DR - if you are suffering from never ending lurgy, make sure your mattress is not too soft.

I am not a doctor / mattress expert / personal lurgy lawyer, please take the above advice with the intent of me just saying what has really helped me and not scientific, factual advice.

[bishop finger]

Come down with something which is still 'developing'. Felt like something was a bit off yesterday

[Pistom]

Yep - so many people seem to have the same thing. There's about a day of coughing so much - you can hardly breath. It then continues for weeks but not too bad.

I can see this current lurgey being pretty serious for some.