Bronchitis cough for over 5 weeks

[CaliChrons]

I am a 24 year old male, who lives a healthy lifestyle, I play basketball twice a week and I hardly ever get sick.  I recently developed a small cold that turned into Bronchitis. I seen my doctor twice already within the past 4 weeks and he gave me antibiotic but I only used for 2 days. The cough only acts up the first few hours at work, I cough about 4-7 times, and it’s a wet phlegm cough.  Then it goes away after my lunch break and I am silent the whole day and night. I work in your typical office, with no industrial or chemical plants near by.

At first I though it was the AC, so we closed the vents and I bought myself  HEPA purifier a few days ago and it seems to work pretty good. Today I coughed about 3-4 times and it was also a wet cough, like always. But recently my nose feels stuffed up.

I never touched a cigarette in my life. I smoked marijuana for 4 years and stopped smoking 2 years ago, and I now use a volcano vaporizer. The vaporizer gets rid of all toxins & irritants, so it’s basically just smokeless THC. Still, I continued to use the vaporizer at night, which is probably prolonging my cough. All it really did was produce a tickle in my throat and I sometimes have a dry cough.
I don’t feel fatigue, no chest pain.

I worked at this company for 1 year and never had a problem before, could it be that I am now getting allergies at 24? Its starting to scare me because this never happened before.

[National Jewish]

The most likely cause of your cough is the THC and/or toxins/irritants not completely filtered out by the volcano vaporizer.  Or you could have had a viral bronchitis or rhino/sinusitis that would have cleared spontaneously, had it not been for the vaporized THC.

Of course, it could as you suggest, be unrelated to this exposure and possibly due to other common allergens.  At your age, the cough almost certainly has a benign cause, yet still one that may require treatment such as asthma or allergic rhinitis also called hay fever.

You should lay off the vaporizer for a while to give your airways time to heal.  Then if the cough then doesn't begin to resolve, you should have your doctor re-examine your nose, throat and lungs and request a chest x-ray.

[MarieMarie]

You may have a light case of whooping cough.

I just had whooping cough and it was not as bad as when I had it as a small child.

It will take 5-10 days antibiotics to clear whooping cough.

Have you had a chest x-ray to determine whether you have pneumonia, or walking pneumonia?

[CaliChrons]

Hi Marie, I took chest x-rays last wed and they were faxed over to my Dr. I called my Docs Nurse twice to see how they turned up ,and I have yet to receive a call back. So either its not that serious, or they never got my message, or they weren't faxed.

[CaliChrons]

X-ray came out perfectly normal. But I still have phlegm type of coughs, which I never have a chance to spit out. The coughs start at work from: 9am-11am and then go away after lunch.

Since it has been over a month, is it a virus or bacteria?

[CaliChrons]

Sorry, didn't see the post Doc. Thanks. I am laying off the vaporizer for a couple of weeks.