Anone had\got this cough that is going around?

[Redwood]

I've had this mucus like cough now for about 4 weeks, and don't seem to be able to shift it.

Anyone had this and got an recommendations on what to take. It's got to the stage now where I'm thinking of going to the quaks!!

 

[snapper]

yep been there!

mine started off as a cold snuffly nose temp and a few aches .

after about a week it seemed to be going , only to come back with avengance as a gut wrenching rib breaking cough !

4 weeks now, I was off workfor a while , its was flipping awful !

still coughing now and then but on the mend at last

lots of fruit vitamin C and gallons of water !

but the one thing i did find that helped was pure honey with self squeezed orange and lemon jucie in a little hot water ! (the oldys are the best)

seemed to calm it down short term

hope this helps

Mark

 

[Redwood]

Thanks Mark, I need something. It feels like I've got broken ribs at the moment.

 

[19th]

As Snapper says, for me too!

A bloody Englishman must have slipped through the quarantine net at Passport Control and carried the germ up here!

 

[haplesshacker]

Had it for almost 6 weeks now. Been to the quack and as I can't have penicillin he gave me some tablets. They didn't work.

So now the whole family has it. Off to the quacks again next week.

 

[medwayjon]

Felt like crap for 4 weeks and stll havent shaked it.

 

[StrangelyBrown]

Yep, I've had it too. Just getting rid of it now after about 3 weeks.

 

[drawboy]

have you tried sucking a fishermans friend

 

[haplesshacker]

It's obviously some kind of virus. It might be the first that spreads from human to computer to human. I suspect that Mac users aren't affected though.

 

[vig]

Yep, got it. Sound like Bob fleming.
Doin my nut in but I have other things on my mind that are far more serious and kinda puts things into perspective

 

[Parmo]

Ewww you germ infected freaks... Stay away!!

*leaves the room with hand over mouth*

 

[Gillespie16]

I had it, it was bloody awful, but hopefully its going now.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I had it a couple of weeks ago. Started as a normal cold but that went after a few days and taking paracetamol regularly and plenty of fluids. I'd had a really tickly cough too and at times I sounded like I was choking and coughing and coughing away. I've still got it and its particularly bad as I get into bed and first thing in the morning, and then again once I've commuted and back into a warm environment.

I have been takng Benylin for tickly coughs. Its not curing it but soothes the symptoms. I thought it was just me but I might wander down the quacks and see what he says

 

[SyR]

I had something similar last winter. After about five weeks I finally went to the doctors as I was struggling to walk more than a few hundred yards without getting breathless.
The course of antibiotics did nothing to help so the doc gave me a course of steroids which did the trick.

 

[USER1999]

What a bunch of nonses.

Stella will cure all known ills.

 

[Imurg]

They always said "feed a cold, starve a fever"

I say drown them both in Ruddles County - or Stella, works just as well.

At least then you don't care what you feel like.