I'm using my daughter's nebulizer

[shmokes]

I got a very minor cold more than three weeks ago, but I still have a cough hanging on that is unbelievably bad.  It sounds like I have effing tuberculosis.  It's getting so incredibly frustrating that I'm sitting here typing right now with my 3-year-old's nebulizer strapped to my face.  We'll see if some infant drugs have any positive effect on me.

[Dartful Dodger]

You're sick and you're breathing into your 3 year old's nebulizer.
I guess we'll also see if some adult viruses have any negative effect on her.

[shmokes]

She'll be alright.  Kids bounce back.

[Vanguard]

You have an oak pollen allergy.  Do you have that yellow/green coating of pollen on everything down there?  Welcome to Florida.   The pollen is really bad this year.  I had the same thing for a week.  It turned into a sinus infection, then a respiratory infection.  It lasted another 2 weeks in my lungs.   I gurgled and weezed when I breathed.   I finally went to the doctor and 3 days of antibiotics cleared me up.

[shmokes]

 I don't know.  I went to the doctor a week and a half ago and he listened to my lungs and said they sounded perfect.  When I cough it's totally croupy and produces that horrible sticky lung mucus.  But just breathing is fine.  BTW, why would antibiotics help you with a pollen allergy?  Or was that just to clear up the sinus infection and by that time the allergy wasn't bothering you anymore?

[Vanguard]

Mine started as allergies.  I worked in the yard one day.  Next day all stuffed up.  Couple days layer, green goo coming out of my sinus'.   That means infection.   The allergies get you clogged up and create a breading ground for bacteria.   All that wonderful goo then slides down your throat/esophagus and gives you a bronchial infection.

Happens every year this time and coincides perfectly with the nice yellow/green layer of pollen all over the cars, house, everything...  I still have the scratchy eyes and mild cough but the pollen has subsided with the rain.   I haven't been stuffed up enough to spawn another infection.

My cough was the same way.  Sounded like a kid with croup and was coughing up globs of good.   I had a noticeable wheeze when I inhaled fast but didn't feel short of breath.

[shmokes]

This was a really strange sickness for me.  Generally it happens more or less like you described, but this time I just got really achey like I had the flu.  But no other symptoms.  That lasted for two days.  Felt awful, but it was just the aches.  Then that went away and the cough came.  Never got it in my head.  My sinuses have been perfectly clear the whole time.  My daughter got it first and she had a head cold in addition to the chest thing for about a week.  Then my wife got it . . . and I came last a couple days after the wife.  Wife had a head cold too.  All of us have had the same awful cough, though.  My daughter is only just now starting to lose the cough after 4 1/2 weeks.

[Vanguard]

Couple years ago I got the cough with no other symptoms.   I felt like I needed to clear my throat all the time.   Also was coughing up stuff.  Sinuses clear.   We had this discussion before.  I ended up getting a chest xray because my dad had just been diagnosed with lung cancer and he'd smoked around us.   The test found some lumps they needed to keep an eye on but the cough just ended up being allergies.

It caught be off guard because I'd never had allergies in my life.   Since then though, every year when the oaks come out of their winter period and start to drop their crud,  my allergies flare up.   This year was particularly bad.   I think its because Central Florida had some deep freezes this winter and it's really caused the trees snap back this spring.   They are noticeably fuller this year.

[DaOld Man]

As long as you arent using your child's high chair.....

[HanoiBoi]

I'm sitting here typing right now with my 3-year-old's nebulizer strapped to my face.

 

[shmokes]

Too late for pics.  However, there may be something to Vanguard's theory.  I didn't know what oak pollen looked like.  Now I do.  My yard has an oak tree and is covered in oak pollen.   

[Vanguard]

Take two Claritan and paypal my physicians fee to DoctorVanguard@cheapInternetMedical.com.

[shmokes]

Yesterday I developed something . . . long word that I can't remember that means some tissue or lining in or around my lungs is inflamed.  It's from all the coughing and ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.  It makes it feel like someone is stabbing me in the heart each time I cough or take a deep breath.  Went back to the doctor.  This time they said I've got a bit of bronchitis.  Gave me a Z-pack.  The knife in the heart thing should go away along with the bronchitis.  Here's hoping.

[Ed_McCarron]

Perhaps you'd better stick to law and leave the medication choices to the docs?   

[shmokes]

I haven't taken any meds for this that weren't prescribed by docs. 

[Ed_McCarron]

I haven't taken any meds for this that weren't prescribed by docs. 

Heh.  Nice loophole.  You'll make a good lawyer some day.