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I've got whooping cough?
Feb. 9th, 2008 11:12 am( For the last five weeks I've had the most horrendous cough and cold/URT infection that has just been a nightmare and won't go away. )
Anyway the first time I went to the docs I got the standard 'It's a virus' dismissal after three seconds. When I went back after three weeks I got some anti-biotics (cepahalexin) but they really didn't make any difference. I am loathe to go back again in spite of my husband's nagging because I am getting better slowly and I bet I'll get the brush off again. So this morning I googled 'cough for 5 weeks' and up come loads of things about whooping cough in adults.
I always think of whooping cough as something babies died of in Dickens' novels, not something found in the 21st C in the developed world. ( But apparently it is actually not uncommon... )What especially struck a chord was the 'initial dry cough with a feeling of a blockage lower in the chest' because that is exactly how it felt and I've never had that before. Also I have been very wheezy and I don't have asthma but the whooping cough explains that too.
( And it also explains why my son (immunised just over a year ago) hasn't had it. )The good/bad news is that on average the cough lasts for seven weeks. So this is either 'Oh good only another two weeks' or 'Oh God, another two weeks'. Actually unusually for me I am being 'glass half full' about this as I was beginning to think there would be no end to it.
I wanted to put my mood as 'poorly' which isn't really a mood but describes how I am, but it wasn't an option. Ill wasn't there either and I couldn't bring myself to put 'sick'. Being sick is vomiting and thankfully I'm not doing that. Although I have no problem with the expression 'off sick'. Just wish I could be.
Anyway the first time I went to the docs I got the standard 'It's a virus' dismissal after three seconds. When I went back after three weeks I got some anti-biotics (cepahalexin) but they really didn't make any difference. I am loathe to go back again in spite of my husband's nagging because I am getting better slowly and I bet I'll get the brush off again. So this morning I googled 'cough for 5 weeks' and up come loads of things about whooping cough in adults.
I always think of whooping cough as something babies died of in Dickens' novels, not something found in the 21st C in the developed world. ( But apparently it is actually not uncommon... )What especially struck a chord was the 'initial dry cough with a feeling of a blockage lower in the chest' because that is exactly how it felt and I've never had that before. Also I have been very wheezy and I don't have asthma but the whooping cough explains that too.
( And it also explains why my son (immunised just over a year ago) hasn't had it. )The good/bad news is that on average the cough lasts for seven weeks. So this is either 'Oh good only another two weeks' or 'Oh God, another two weeks'. Actually unusually for me I am being 'glass half full' about this as I was beginning to think there would be no end to it.
I wanted to put my mood as 'poorly' which isn't really a mood but describes how I am, but it wasn't an option. Ill wasn't there either and I couldn't bring myself to put 'sick'. Being sick is vomiting and thankfully I'm not doing that. Although I have no problem with the expression 'off sick'. Just wish I could be.
