Man, I don't know what's going on with my body and it's kinda scary. Worried that if I don't take care of this soon I might die :\
Been seeing my GP, and they did a single pass chest x-ray which looked normal. So he just has me on some cough syrup/expectorant/painkillers + decongestants.
I'm almost 5 weeks now since I got sick, and still have kinda stuffy head/ear/throat stuff but not much, just lingering a bit and producing mucus drips still. This is annoying but less concerning.
I'm 3 weeks now into my coughing chest cold that happened 2 weeks into my flu. Haven't had one day without tearing up my lungs/throat coughing up phleghm (yellow with mostly clear). I'm fine for like 70% of the day and feel almost healthy, but the scary bits are that when I do start getting that wheezy/clogged breathing and chest coughing hard to get it out, my chest is so sore each cough like black and blue beatup feeling and worse is that after I do a few major coughs my chest burns for a while and I get feverish for 5-10 mins or so and then then fever dies down and after a while the chest burning clears off...until the next coughing session when it happens again and it feels even worse each coughing session in a day.
I feel like what's happening is that I've got bronchitis and my lungs are producing too much phlegm due to inflammation/soreness from all the hard coughing that needs to heal up. Then every day enough phlegm accumulates that I start coughing and it tears things up again and sets off the inflammation again and makes the soreness worse, repeat throughout the day and then when I sleep it heals up some, but not enough to go away so the loop keeps it going. Cough syrups/drops help a little but don't really help because if I've got junk in my chest and am wheezing I need to cough to get the stuff out to breathe.
I also think everytime I cough I do the same thing with damage to my throat, it inflames, gets raw, heals up and repeats. Sometimes when I'm coughing a bunch and hard and there's a lot of burning inflammation in my chest and throat there's a light pink color to my phleghm. Not sure if that counts as blood. Pretty sure if something is bleeding it's my throat and not my lungs because my throat is super raw.
My head stuff still continuing could be a result of all the inflammation going on in my chest/throat causing extra pheligm build up in my sinuses.
Gonna see my doc again once the week starts on Monday. If it wasn't for my chest stuff, I definitely feel 99% healed in terms of the head stuff. That's really minor and I used to be feeling really sick. So I definitely feel I'm at the end/lingering part of the flu virus I had, but I'm just concerned about my lungs/chest because while it's better than it was in the thick of it when my flu was bad, it just doesn't feel like it's improving and everyday is the same loop of "ok, no coughs today, chest feels clear, maybe ok? And then by the evening I start coughing which inflames and causes more coughing and I end up doing a lot of damage at night and going to sleep with burning/soreness in my chest and coughing up light pink". Not sure what kind of chest stuff you can have that doesn't show up on an x-ray, but will talk to my doc about it. I feel like at this point maybe I need to get see a lung specialist.
This is definitely the scariest health issues I've dealt with. I've had major surgeries and stuff and that was scary in that well I hope nothing goes wrong and I die, but the chances of that are low and I knew what was going wrong with me. Not knowing what's going on when it's dealing with major organs like the lungs and trouble breathing, burning/soreness pains for weeks on end is scary!
