Has anyone else got this cold?

[apbremer]

Male, getting on a bit, slim, tennis and cycling every day, non smoker. sensible diet has been struck down in the past 10 days by the heaviest foulest ever cold, catarrh ridden, with a hacking cough and no end in sight except the grave. Is it a virus going around or am I just unlucky??

[Earl Aelfheah]

You've caught a cold.

[pinecone]

try garlic, lemon, and honey repeatedly. I had it last year between Jan and April. Would not shift.

[Peckhamrye]

I have had it for the last six weeks, slowly going. Lots of steam inhalation with Vicks.

[Dopamine1979]

It's that time of year old chap.

[Mick Mac]

Its the tennis that does it old boy.

[Seabag]

THAT hacking cough, fekk it near killed me

Made worse when I broke my ribs, a few months ago

About 5 months in and still have a touch of it

I blame Boris

[Robert Poste's Child]

I had a horrible cold recently, first one in a year and it took about three weeks to clear rather than my usual three days. Sometimes I find I can shake off a cold completely if I hit it at the start with 500mg vitamin C every hour, liquid vitamin D and a good gargle with brandy, but sometimes you're just in for it, I'm afraid.

My top tip is not going outside after dark. I've noticed that every time you do that with a cold it puts your recovery back by another day or so. No idea why - ozone maybe.

And drink lots of lemon, honey and ginger. Ginger's magic.

[Nigello]

I gargle with salt water as soon as I get a tickle in the throat, then drink fizzy Vitamin C/Zinc with ginger and garlic and honey. It sounds bad, but it's OK. Lots of sleep is a must, as is lots of water. Boots chesty cough syrup is good to dissolved the phlegm. Muninex Maximum Strength is really good, but it's only available in the US. It contains about six times the amount of guaifinesin, the stuff that loosens the catarrh, than UK medicines. http://biovea.net/uk/product_detail.aspx?PID=3652&OS=204&KW=mucinex%20&cp=4&NAME=MUCINEX?-12-HOUR-EXPECTORANT-Maximum-Strength-48-Tablets

[maxxi]

Am approaching the middle of my 3rd week with this little git - not debilitating just annoying. Hacking cough and that feeling that a dessert spoonful of phlegm is stuck to the inside of your chest so you try to hack it off - it comes back moments after you nearly herniate moving the sucker.

Gave up smoking 2 and half years back and this is worse cough since then.

combatting with honey, lemon, ginger in hot water, vapour rub, olbas oil, lots of garlic and chillies in food and the occasional top-shelf lovely.

[jack'n'danny]

Hacking cough, I used to take "Galloways" Cough Mixture. Bloody good stuff, not sure if you can still get it?

[NewWave]

Yes..I've had it almost 3 weeks...still feeling grim.

Went to doctor last week and got antibiotics but at end of course still coughing in the night and feeling really gluey and rundown.

weird cos I usually shake these things off in a couple of days.

[Robert Poste's Child]

Now thinking I got off lightly with mine... I was talked into doing an interview while I had it. With hindsight that was never going to go well.

An ex-boyfriend used to dose himself with 'garlic soup' - you crush into a mug as many garlic cloves as you can bear, add boiling water and let it steep like herbal tea before drinking it. He swore by it. (I had to sleep in a separate room, but it's not as bad if you're the one with the cold as you can't smell it.)

[El Pibe]

I usually manage to fight off the winter ones and succumb to the spring ones for some weird reason.

Has a nasty winter cough 2 years back. couldn't shake it, cough started raspy, when to tickly, then scratchy, then chesty, then hacking, lasted three months.

Went to the doctor several times who more or less told me to eff off.

Started getting fevers and pains, went to the lister walk in where a lovely lady gaveme antibiotics, a day later the pleuresy kicked in.

Ouch.

Luckily I'd already started the course and I wasn't in intense pain for more than a week.

If you suspect your cough to be bcterial I'd get it seen to, that was the nastiest thing i've ever had, though the pain drugs they gave me were GREAT!!!!

[bermygirl31]

Echinachea

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bermygirl31 Wrote:

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> Echinachea

Bless you.

[Mustard]

I haven't had a bad cough for ages, but when I did I found only the Potters Cough Syrups helped. Usually they are available in health food stores, like Holland and Barrett.

[19laura93]

Best thing to do for a cold is either warm lemon and honey or honey and ginger if not try slicing an orange in half then put it in the oven for a little while then eat it.

[19laura93]

drink throughout the day for 3 days and then go to bed under the covers no matter how hot you are to sweat it all out.

[El Pibe]

missed your first post of two there laura, so I was thinking "three day session, nice approach, may have to try it one day"

[Jeremy]

Actually going on a bender isn't such a bad idea. I mean if you're going to feel like crap the next morning either way, you may as well go for it.

[Robert Poste's Child]

Not sure about overdoing it, but alcohol may kill the germs in your throat and help you get to sleep. That's why I gargle with brandy when I have a cold.

[Earl Aelfheah]

Yep, go on a bender and you'll definitely loose the cold along with 3 or 4 days.

[healey]

NewWave Wrote:

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> Yes..I've had it almost 3 weeks...still feeling

> grim.

> Went to doctor last week and got antibiotics but

> at end of course still coughing in the night and

> feeling really gluey and rundown.

> weird cos I usually shake these things off in a

> couple of days.

Why on earth is a doctor giving out antibiotics for a cold? It's a virus, not bacteria.

[Strawbs]

Yep three weeks in in feeling better but still coughing!