Originally Posted by dmplaura

I'm not swimming with the carp, but I am swimming in my own personal misery.

I haven't been 'sick' with a flu or cold in a few years. Well, March 22nd I began to feel tell tale signs that something was not 'right'. By March 24th, I was at the clinic and told I had strep, and put on an antibiotic.

Now we're going on March 29th, throat's still sore (least the ugliness of it is gone) and I'm filled with junk in my chest and sinuses. Sneezing all day. Even gunk coming out of my eye. Laying down to sleep is a fit of coughing until I take the chance of asphyxiation and put a cough drop in my mouth and fall asleep with it in there.

Am I getting 'over it'? Seriously... my thought was that an antibiotic is supposed to clear up the infection in a couple days after you start it. I'm still expelling thick mucus. What gives? Is the antibiotic not working/strong enough, or is this normal? I know I'm always hearing that illness can hit MS'ers harder than others... I am beginning to believe it.

I feel like head butting my immune system and saying "Over here dummy!".