22 year old female, non smoker. persistent cough for 2 mos. At first coughs would come in fits just at night with no other symptoms. coughs were dry and caused chest pains and breathing difficulties. Eventually would produce slight phlegm, but was always be unable to cough it up. After going to the emergency after a coughing fit, I was told my lungs were fine, however, I could have whooping cough with an asthmatic component. Given a puffer, prescribed an antibiotic, and told me that if the coughing persisted after 3 days of taking the antiobiotic, to see my family doctor. antibiotic didn’t help; puffer helped with coughing, wheezing and whistling sound in lungs. chest xray is clear, and will be visiting a respirologist next week. Family doctor advised a pertussis vaccine and blood tests done at the respirologist’s.. Since meeting with my doctor about 3 weeks ago, I was able to spit up phlegm and sometimes release mucus from my nose. In both cases, mucus showed up as brownish yellow pieces.. one day I even coughed up a hard, pebble-sized piece of mucus that was fleshy in colour.
2 days ago, experienced throat pain when swallowed.. next day - classic flu symptoms: sweats, weakness, body aches, throbbing headache and excessive mucus secretion from sinuses, sinus pain and congestion. For one day I expelled drippy mucus out of my nose every 5 minutes, that was brownish yellow mucus like in the past but also peach-coloured. Today, this mucus is gone, I am now just congested. Last night, first time, I did not have a coughing fit and did not have to use puffer. However, when I breathed deeply in bed and plugged my ears, my lungs made a soft high pitched whistling sound. This was continuous until this morning.
I am scared that this is permanent. What concerns me most is this asthmatic component to my coughing. I haven’t been able to smell or taste my food fully for 2 mos, even though my nose wasn’t always congested.