Sick oh so Sick

I feel as if I am dying...well yesterday I did. So I woke up yesterday fine and dandy....well about noonish all of a sudden I take a deep breath because I was bored and a sigh was going to follow it. Holy pain...when I tok the breath the bottom of my throat and my chest was in pain I went oh **** I knew what it was. Finally a couple hours later here comes the dreadful cough. Bronchitis. Oh lovely Bronchitis. I have had Bronchitis twice in the past. First was when I was 13 I got it the day before I went to Tennessee. I ended up going down to Chatanooga Tennesse to play in the Fastpitch World Series. Regardless of the bronchitis I played...nothing was going to stop me. Some of us girls went to a pool to swim one day because hello Ten. is freaking 100+ degrees at this time. So I am the dumbass who races with the girls to see how far we can get underwater. I come up guess what I am panicing because I can no longer breathe all I can do is suck in air. I thought I was seriously going to die. One of the girls calmed me down and got me to breathe again because there were two other girls who also had it and she had done the same thing prior to being in Ten.  Then my sophomore year in High School I tore my ACL in my knee so I am laying at home in my bed not being able to work I come down with Bronchitis at the same flippin time! And now....here it is again WTF!? So yea.....I'm sick. I didn't come into wor****il 12:30pm even tho I should not be here at all!!!!

I get it five or six times a year.... <-- c.o.p.d. w/emphysema... Ok.. when I can't make the cough productive, I lay flat on the floor on my back and I'll end up coughing some of it up.  Also, I'll take Alka Seltzer cold medicine.. that seems to help.  Try sleeping in a reclined position instead of laying down.. that should help you to rest.. and please.. REST!  DON'T forget LOTS of fluids..... hydrate, hydrate, hydrate.  If it's really bad I hit the doctor and we both know the antibiotics are useless, but he'll give me a round of 'em anyway along with tussi organidan w/codeine....  that cough syrup really helps with the pain. PLEASE don't forget to hydrate!!!! I'll be praying for ya! Lori

Aww man... Make sure you go to the doctor and get on some antibiotics quick.  Drink tea - the heat will break up your mucus.  Poor thing. 

Man I was just at the doctor!!! lol I was like well why couldn't I have had this when I went! But last night my boyfriend came over and brought me some vicks, cough drops and some cough syrup. He made me a cup of tea which helped I drank like half of the cup then I was over it. But I was laying on the couch until 1am. Finally I couldn't take all the body aches anymore popped a couple asprin slathered my chest with Vicks also sucked on a cough drop until I couldn't take the taste. I finally went to sleep and called my mother to tell her I would come into work later in the afternoon. She said fine and that I really didn't have to come in. But I always have to make sure everything is delayed and billed correctly or I will drive myself insane. I ended up coughing up some mucus it was the most disgusting thing I have ever seen in my life. So yea I am leaving work in a couple of minutes i will be at work tomorrow tho regardless I also have to do a girls hair....I need the money...

Oh sweetie... just come here and I'll make you some Jewish penicillin... Italian style...  Chickie soup seems to cure all.  Sprained ankle... chickie soup.  Headache.. chickie soup.  Hang nail.. chickie soup!

are you SURE it isnt influenza???  see the doc in the first 48 hours....

Christa...with your body aches, sounds more like the flu.  Hang low, get lots of fluids and I agree with the chicken soup...it fixes everything!!  Hope you're back to normal soon!  Hot tea with lemon and honey works good too. Feel better!!

Ahh i feel for ya babe!  I'm in the last few days of my sinus infection. I managed to make it through the most part of the day unmedicated then I couldn't take the 'after the swimming pool' feeling and popped some decongestants.  Wish I had my nasal spray! Never leave home without your Vicks Sinex when you're conjested!  Hope you get better! Just seems to be that time of year everywhere.

I haven't had bronchitis, but I am still getting over the cold I had around Christmas. It was so bad I couldn't sleep because I coughed all night! I am so glad it is going away. -Bud

Do call your doc - somebody said it, it may be the flu due to sudden onset!  they can give you a shot that will minimize it, if so.  Hope you get better really fast...man I had bronchitis once, thought it suuuuuucked.