I'm sicker today than during Covid-19... twice.

[WarGamer]

Seeing online there appears to be a virulent chest-cold going around, at least in SoCal...

Bronchitis-like symptoms... coughing up crud.

Anyone heard anything?

EDIT: 3 negative COVID tests.

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. RSV? Flu? Nt

[WarGamer]

2. One day of "Yeah I'm feeling sick"

Two days of yes I'm sick.

Better last couple days but this cough... yuck!!

[BigmanPigman]

5. It sounds like your body is progressing

through the final stages of this RSV/flu. Do you have a fever or not?

[WarGamer]

6. Day 2 and 3 low level 99-100ish

No fever last couple, few days

[BigmanPigman]

13. I had those symptoms for several weeks

but my school's principal wouldn't let me take sick days since there was a substitute shortage. I had a cold that had turned into pneumonia and my doctor said I could take off 3 days and gave me a note. Two days later I had to go to the hospital due to loss of enormous amounts of blood (a weird side effect of pneumonia).

If you have to go to work take off until you feel better!!!

[WarGamer]

15. wow... be well!!!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

22. Your principal wants you to go to school every day and infect other staff and students?

Yeah, that makes sense.

[Hav]

20. That's pretty much how my last colds were

For a few days, I never felt sicker before and then the coughing comes. That seems to go around everywhere.
A coworker mentioned that it comes from the bronchia, that's why the usual cough medicine doesn't help at all. Like others already said here, it's really persistent and can last weeks before it goes away.

[Duncanpup]

3. Can you see a doctor

To find out if it bacteria or viral

[WarGamer]

4. I could... but I'm one of those stubborn "guy types"

Google says Bronchitis is rarely treated with antibiotics.

[TrueBlueNV]

7. Yuppers

Northern Nevada here..definitely a chest cold/virus thingy going around. I’m just getting over it two weeks later. Coughing up a bunch of crud… A friend got it the same time I did. We have the exact same symptoms.

Started with a dry cough, then a fever, and then a big ol’ chest cold.

[WarGamer]

8. precisely.

[LisaL]

9. I think I got the same thing.

All my covid tests were negative as well.

[WarGamer]

10. Loose rattling cough?

[LisaL]

12. Yep.

Going on second week.

[JohnSJ]

11. PCR or Rapid test? From what I understand, with the rapid test it can take up to 5 days for someone

to show up positive. Not saying that is the case, but confirming with the PCR test would be a good confirmation if it hasn't been done.

That being said, there are a lot of bugs out there that are going around, and it could very likely be something else.

It is still a good idea to wear a mask when out in public, not just for Covid

[WarGamer]

14. Yeah I hear ya... rapid test

I gave this one to my wife... but she brought home COVID in November so I told her we're even.

[JohnSJ]

17. Regardless, I hope you feel better WarGamer. It probably is something else anyway, but either way

just feel better soon

[WarGamer]

21. thx!!

[DFW]

16. Had that in late Jan-early Feb

Laid me low for about a week. Caught it in Berlin.

[ariadne0614]

18. Same here. I'm in Florida on the Gulf Coast.

It started 12Feb, and the cruddy cough is finally mostly gone. My first thought was COVID, but I tested negative four days in a row.

[happybird]

19. I had that last month, I'm on the east coast

Coughing up yellowy green crud from my chest, sinuses were swollen but anything I managed to blow out was clear. Had a low fever for a few days and did several covid tests. All negative. It lasted two and half weeks.


I hope you feel better soon.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

23. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say if you have negative Covid tests,

you don't have Covid. There really are lots of other things out there.