Stinking cough

I'm on wk 4 now and starting to feel better. My DH now has virus but no cough. He feels nauseous , woozy and has high temperature. Does anyone else have this?
Wishing everyone good health x

This current strain seems to testing negative for a long time, but it does eventually show positive. I felt at my worst last Saturday and Sunday, when I was negative. On Monday the test was positive and I began to feel better. Maybe the supermarket tests don't pick it up so readily as the free ones did. If people feel rough and test negative, they shouldn't assume they haven't got it, a couple more days may bring a positive.

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lemsip

so what is a small dose. I have been really ill with heavy cold and cough for over two weeks no energy. lateral flow tests two days apart were negative.. I would have thought if it had been covid positive it would be classed as a big dose!

A woman at work has all the symptoms and is really ill and not coming into work obviously but her lateral flow test is still saying negative, waste of bloody time if you asked me..

She had her PCR result today positive..

Just had a phone call from a friend who’s finally come down with covid. It took several tests before it showed up as possitive. I thought the incubation period with omicron was much shorter. She’d recently been vaccinated so I wonder if that’s why it took so long to test negative . She said PCR tests are now over £50!

Same here. Tested negative for covid. Now into third week. Head no longer hurts, still slight cough and tight chest.
I always prided myself on being fortunately fit, going to gym etc. This has absolutely floored me. Hoping to get back to gym routine soon but just now exhausted going up stairs.

Just a thought but I’ve had coughs that last for ages and I’ve found that a Beconase nasal spray helps because a lot of the coughing is the result of a post nasal drip.

I have had a cough off and on for months I made appointment for telephone consultations for later date. I cancelled three separate appointments as I did feel better each time.
Then it came back I was worried because I felt so bad. I had a dull pain in my chest but my ribs were not aching with coughing. The doctor rang and suggested it was a lung infection given my description of which I will leave out yuk! He prescribed eight strong antibiotics. It took a few days but there was an improvement. It stayed away a couple more weeks now it’s back. I am going to ring the surgery up again. I think whatever it is would have cleared up properly if I was prescribed a longer term on the tablets.
I have to wait now for next phone call I hope you feel better soon and anyone else feeling unwell.

Yes hot poultices- horrible things for if you had boils or a wound. Quite painful,too.

It may well have been. It’s an old-fashioned remedy, and makes you feel better rather than curing your ills, but we don’t have a cure for a cold and with things like bronchitis even if you have antibiotics you want something to make it less grim until they take effect.

I remember Friars balsam too nana8 and poultices. I wonder if any of the old remedies are still in use?

Doodle dog that reminds me of when I was young and mum did that tent thing with towels and some sort of inhalation stuff. Maybe friars balsam but I was too young to know what it was. Smelt a bit eucalyptus like.

lemsip

so what is a small dose. I have been really ill with heavy cold and cough for over two weeks no energy. lateral flow tests two days apart were negative.. I would have thought if it had been covid positive it would be classed as a big dose!

A woman at work has all the symptoms and is really ill and not coming into work obviously but her lateral flow test is still saying negative, waste of bloody time if you asked me..

I swear by inhaled Olbas Oil (a few drops in very hot water) for coughs and colds. Stick a towel over your head to make a tent, and inhale it for as long as you can. It really clears the airways, and helps you to sleep, as you aren't barking all night.

Do not put it on your pillow, or on a tissue in your pillowcase though (I have seen that recommended somewhere) as it smells sickly when it loses its potency, and you can't get rid of the smell.

so what is a small dose. I have been really ill with heavy cold and cough for over two weeks no energy. lateral flow tests two days apart were negative.. I would have thought if it had been covid positive it would be classed as a big dose!

According to my manager at work at the care home she says lateral flows do not pick up a small dose of the virus it’s the PCR that does that..

Finally got a positive test this morning, after feeling grim since Friday and repeatedly testing negative. Now we've both got it (although my second line was faint) I can leave the spare room and go back to my own bed, and DH. He is on the mend and went for a walk. I feel a bit better but my ribs ache from coughing.

I covid tested twice negative.
Really bad head cold to start and feeling 'out of it for two weeks. Last Tuesday the coughing started. Husband complained of lack of sleep so I moved into guest room.
The blocked nose and hacking cough with phlegm and blood spots had not cleared by Saturday so husband phoned NHS24. I had lost voice by now. The staff wrote an emergency prescription for an antibiotic from our local chemist.
I have a steam inhaler with menthol crystals, take hot lemon paracetamol drink and rub Vick on chest. Also strong throat lozenges are great to control the wretching. I slept better last night and hope to be free of this bug soon. Maybe not by Friday when supposed to get flu/covid vaccine! ?

Covid in the care home I work in,all staff and residents tested . I had three negative lateral flow test and also one negative PCR…

My husband took three covid tests before he got a positive result. Keep taking the tests, it sounds like covid. He's negative again now but can't shake off the cough. I caught it from him and didn't have a cough at all. The symptoms vary from person to person.

The beginning of September my husband and I started with a heavy cold and sore throat which went to a chest infection. Coughing for me was a racking cough bringing up so much mucus from nose and throat. I was very concerned when the mucus had blood in it from my throat and nose. At that point I went to see my GP who prescribed antibiotics. I have had some improvement no more retching when coughing and I am not waking in the night. I have to say I have never had a cough like this in fact I can't remember the last time I had a cold it must have been years ago. I don't have Covid done the test a couple of times, hubby as well.

I’ve had this for about 3 weeks. Keeping me awake at night coughing. Tested umpteen times for Covid and all negative l

Same here. Headache, sore throat, runny nose, horrid cough, aching etc. DH tested positive on Thursday, I tested negative on Friday and Saturday. Hard to believe I haven't got it as our symptoms are the same. I have spent the last 3 nights in spare room and used a different bathroom. There doesn't seem much point doing the separating. DH is nearly better.

My husband and I both had this at the beginning of September. Worst cough I have ever had. We both tested negative for covid. I managed to see my Gp who said it was viral so antibiotics would not help. Just advised rest and fluids and painkillers which I took for two weeks and was unable to do my usual childcare of dgcs. My cough was mostly gone after three weeks but dh's lasted about six weeks.

My husband has just got rid of a terrible cough which he had for 6 weeks. He managed to get an appointment with our GP but by the time the appointment came around his cough had gone. He still went to be on the safe side. She said his chest was clear but that viral coughs can last for 6-8 weeks.

I feel really sorry for you Beau1958. My husband and I have both had exactly the same thing. Today is the first day in a fortnight we're feeling a bit better. We took Covid tests on day 2 - husband had it, I didn't. Only when I took a test on day 6 did it come back positive. Odd.

The coughing drove us mad, especially at night. It seemed to 'rattle' our heads. Honey and lemon in hot water, ibuprofen, cough sweets, lemon barley water and keeping very warm with hot water bottles seemed to help. Hope you're feeling much better soon.