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Old 03-08-2009, 11:10 PM #1
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I started feeling bad last Wednesday. We had been in Lexington for the weekend and my 2 year old grandaughter had a cold so maybe I caught something from her. She did a lot of coughting and two year olds don't do a good job of covering their mouth. Plus I held her little hand a lot so I would have gotten the germs anyway.

Anyway, it started out with just the sniffles, I brushed it off as maybe one of my numerous sinus infections. Then came the bad coughing. The cough isn't in my lungs at all. But it is a hard cough and sometimes sounds like a lot of congestion in my upper airway. I didn't start running a temp until Friday night. My temp is normal during the day but by bedtime it si 100.5. I am just drained from all the coughing. My throat, head and upper back hurt from all the coughing. I called my doc on Friday and got started on an antibiotic and got some cough syrup. I don't know about you folks but I have never found a cough syrup that works well. So I will call him again first thing tomorrow.
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I hope you feel better soon, Doydie. Glad you got to hold that little hand, even if it was germy, lol!
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AWWW Doyd~ that stinks! My DH is fighting a cold/sinus infection right now too and he says it feels like his head is as big as a beach ball. I measured it and he exagerated!
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Hope you feel better soon and of course, rest and plenty of fluids, b/c it sounds suspiciously like bronchitis. {{{{DOYD}}}}
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DD is taking GS, Johnny, to Docs today...he has cough and fever. Must be going around.

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Sorry to hear that you aren't feeling that well Doydie - I really hope you feel better soon and i'm thinking about you!!

I haven't been feeling too well either. We just got back off vacation and I always seem to get the cold when we got back after a trip somewhere because of the change in temperatures etc so it sounds like you've got the same thing as me!!

I'm sending you many gentle hugs and please call your doctor if you don't feel any better!
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I hope you start to feel better soon. Being sick sucks.
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Feel better doydie. With the constant change of weather I am
surpised there are not more with colds.

I hope that I make it through. Those little bugs travel around
fast.

Take care and drink plenty of fluids.

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that sounds rotten. i hope you feel better soon.

many yrs ago i had an intractable case of bronchitis and couldn't stop coughing. my drs and i tried everything. finally my allergy dr Rx'd a cough med called tussionex. it had codeine in it. finally the coughing stopped and i was able to heal my airway.

it's been yrs and i'm cough free.
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My Doctors office has a nurse practioner and you can get in to see her pretty quick. So I called early this moring and had an appointment in one hour!!!!! So yes, as you all think it is Bronchitis. With the wheezing I have in my upper airways she even eluded that it moght be asthmatis bronchitis. So she gave me a sample inhaler. She asked me whether my cough medicine was helping (Phergan with codiene). I told her it was like taking water. So she had the Doctor sign a prescription for Tussinex. That medicine can knock you down! It has the same medicine that's in Lortab, Hydrococone. She said 'now this will make you sleepy'. I went home, used the inhaler, took a dose of the cough medicine and slept for 2 1/2 hours. It wasn't until about 10 hours later that I didn't feel loopy anymore! So I think I will take it only at bedtime and just use cough drops and the other cough medicine during the day.

I don't know if any of you all are an expert on antibiotics but she said that Vibramycin doesn't peak for 72 hours so I really wouldn't have felt better over the weekend.

I must say that I feel a little better tonight, no temp and not as much urge to cough. Thanks for all the well wishes. Now if I can just get one of you to come over and do my dishes that are piling up.
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Glad you went and got some good meds. I hope you feel better very soon!


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