Stupid cold...

[stacey79]

I need some advice. Last THursday, my throat felt sore like my sinuses were draining. By the time I got up Friday I was miserable. I spent days with a stuffy, runny nose. Lots of sneezing and coughing and no energy. Well, I'm feeling a bit better, but my nose is still a bit congested and sometimes slightly runny and I'm still coughing. It sounds more like a dry cough. I'm also just still completely zapped of energy and am sometimes still running a low grade fever (around 100). My hubby started sneezing and feeling bad yesterday, so now he's sick, too.

What I'm wondering is whether I need to go to the doctor or if it's normal for a cold to hang around this long? It's driving me nuts. Right now we just have temporary health insurance because my hubby lost his job, so going to the doctor costs more than usual. THat said, if I need to go, I will go. I also don't want to end up with pneumonia or something. I just hate to go and have my doc say it will just have to run its course. Any advice?

[GriffsMommy]

I know what you mean, it seems if you go they tell you it's nothing, if you don't go it ends up being something worse. You can't win. I usually try to wait it out a little longer, OR maybe you could call the dr and explain your symptoms and see what they think. Sometimes when money has been tight my dr's office has been willing to prescribe rx's without seeing us. But that usually only works if you have chronic sinus problems or like my hubby got the exact same symtpoms after I did. I went to the dr and just asked them a couple days later to call in a script for him and they did.

[stacey79]

I think I may try calling tomorrow and see if the nurse will talk to me. They seem to be big on having us come in. My brother was telling me he's had a few people off work with walking pneumonia, which makes me nervous. I looked it up on webmd and found I have the symptoms, but I also was reading when it says to call the doctor and according to that, I need to just wait it out, so now I'm even more confused. *Sigh* I'm just so darn tired.