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Presistent Cold / Cough, Week 4
Background: 21 year old female, IBS, food & environmental allergies, on birth control, anxiety medication, and allergy medication.
4 weeks ago I went to my student health center at the college I attend. I had a sore throat with white tonsils. They strep test came back negative and was sent home to rest. Still believe I had tonsillitis, the girl I sat next to said she had tonsillitis and a week later was when I became sick. The whites on my tonsils lasted about 2 weeks, no other symptoms but a sore throat. Week three I started to get a runny nose and a cough. I'll be sitting in class and experience a coughing fit and trouble stopping, it was a dry cough. Went to student health again, was prescribed benzonatate and Claritin. Now week 4, I have a wet cough, stuffy/runny nose, swollen tonsils, coughing enough to vomit a couple times a night.
Why am I not getting better / should I go back to the doctor?
When it comes to getting rest I'm doing the best I can, but I am getting average sleep that my body is use to, sometimes even more.
Thanks
4 weeks ago I went to my student health center at the college I attend. I had a sore throat with white tonsils. They strep test came back negative and was sent home to rest. Still believe I had tonsillitis, the girl I sat next to said she had tonsillitis and a week later was when I became sick. The whites on my tonsils lasted about 2 weeks, no other symptoms but a sore throat. Week three I started to get a runny nose and a cough. I'll be sitting in class and experience a coughing fit and trouble stopping, it was a dry cough. Went to student health again, was prescribed benzonatate and Claritin. Now week 4, I have a wet cough, stuffy/runny nose, swollen tonsils, coughing enough to vomit a couple times a night.
Why am I not getting better / should I go back to the doctor?
When it comes to getting rest I'm doing the best I can, but I am getting average sleep that my body is use to, sometimes even more.
Thanks
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