macteacher

THAT"S ALL I WANT TO DO.... but i have this cough that won't bloody go away.... all i do is cough like a smoker and here and there phlegm pops up. I've had the darn thing since late November.... it's just pissing me off....and the temps for Wed. are looking great...party sunny and 10 C. I'm to afraid that if I bike i'm gonna make my situation worse. Anyhow...I just wanted to rant.

Random Revival

That sucks man. I hate feeling bad for no reason. See a doctor about it?

joeyfrench

I've had pneumonia like three times now. Go to a doctor. You may have walking pneumonia, it does not go away, you need drugs.

fthomas

GO TO A DOC!! No one should be coughing for that length of time.

Hope you get well fast! Toronto is a beautiful place and I am sure has some great riding!

Get Well!

CliftonGK1

I know the feeling, and for me it's only been since Friday. I got the most recent office plague, and it ruined me and my fiancee's weekend plans to get away to the Oregon coast for a couple days, and it's possibly killing my plans for a January century if I don't manage to kick this soon.

CommuterRun

Go see a Doc. I smoke a pack of Camel Non-Filters a day and don't cough anything like that.

macteacher

well...the cough started in late Nov...by just after Christmas it was practically gone...for a time i was on anti-biotics...but i doubt they even did anything....anyhow...after new years it just appeared.... rougher than it was the first time around.. i don't want to end up back on those meds

unkchunk

This year's cold is a nasty one. It doesn't seem to go away. A girl in the apartment above me has had it since November too. I had it about two weeks. I think light exercise helped me clear out the lungs and sinuses to get over it sooner. So if it's that cold, maybe try a light bike ride.

macteacher

I've heard that as well...that once this years cold latches on, it stays for a long time.

joeyfrench

My girlfriend is in bed right now, hasn't had a voice AT ALL for the last 4 days.

unkchunk

Enjoy it while it lasts.

When she recovers she'll probably talk twice as much to make up for the lost time.

DataJunkie

+10000000

Yep, go see a doctor.

5 years ago I let a cold go too long. With health issues I am not exactly the smartest peanut in the turd.
Anyhow, it got to the point that I could barely swallow or drink. I recovered on my own but my doctor said that I should have had a steroid shot to open up my throat (or something along those lines).
Years later when it gets cold I tend to get sore throats. So, I sleep with a space heater.
I also loose my voice when I catch a cold.

JanMM

Don't take antibiotics unless your healthcare practitioner is sure that you have a problem caused by bacteria. As always, lots of different viruses causing the usual upper respiratory problems all over the North American continent. It's not too late to get a flu vaccination, so that you don't get influenza.

stringbreaker

Go back to the doctor. Why the hesitation about the meds? I had pneumonia three years in a row that started out with a head cold that went to bronchitis then pneumonia. Now I take a flu shot and I haven't had but one cold in 4 years and it didn't last too long. Thats way to long to cough like that.How about some of that musinex stuff you see on TV maybe that will help.

mtnwalker

I had a lingering cough like that 3 years ago. I tried everything from Robitussin to anti-biotics and none of that worked. My wife then told me about Ginger Tea's and I figured what the heck! 3 months of coughing, I'll try anything. Lo and behold, after just the first cup I felt my coughing subside and it completely went away in a week or so.

From then on I drink Ginger Tea every time I start coughing because of a cold. It works.

macteacher

mtnwalker, do you know what kind of Ginger Tea it was?

tarwheel 

Go see the doc. I had a cough like that a few years ago that wouldn't go away. I finally went to the doctor because it was keeping me awake at night. Turns out I had bronchitis and pneumonia.

Itsjustb

I've had the same thing since Thanksgiving Day. I finally got antibiotics New Year's Day and the cough and congestion are finally gone today.

joeyfrench

Yeah, they will give you antibiotics, which you must finish taking to even hope to get rid of the nasties.

LittleBigMan

I know everyone has said "see the doctor," but I just want to say, "see the doctor," again.

You don't want to wind up in the hospital, mate.

DataJunkie

If you are worried about the costs a doctor visit is far less expensive than a hospital visit.

macteacher

I will go see the doc after work. "DataJunkie" i'm not worried about the cost, I live in Canada. Thanks to Tommy Douglas, doc's are paid for by the state. America should try it.

mtnwalker

Any crystalized Ginger Tea should work. The one's I've been taking has some asian language on it I can't read.

Mr. Underbridge

Thanks for the helpful advice, but there are a lot of obstacles that would make socialized health care a lot less successful in the US than it is in Canada.

DataJunkie

Strangely enough, a few Canadians I know complain equally about how crappy their system is.
Though ours is definitely worst.
Now why is my name in quotes?