Cold progressing fast

[cjsmith]

I'm past the eating-caltrops stage, past the brief "feeling half decent except my nose is a faucet" stage, and am now in the "there's a knife behind my sternum" stage. I don't think I've had things go this fast before.

Didn't sleep at all last night - had to keep getting up to blow my nose & take more Sudafed. Also, any time I breathed I needed to cough, and even the tiniest cough-like hint of motion reminded me of that knife behind my sternum. But man, is this cough ever productive. That stuff tastes truly nasty, by the way. I'd forgotten how nasty.

Also, when I try to talk I sound like a duck. I think today will be another stay in bed day.

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Re: Okay, so I'm paranoid...

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

If we're allowed to call it pneumonia whenever there's any fluid in the lungs, then yeah, that I've got. But if it is indeed pneumonia by any definition, it's a mild case. I don't have fever high enough to have chills, I have no muscle/joint aches and pains, my breathing isn't labored or shallow, I can breathe deeply as long as I do it slowly, I haven't coughed up blood, etc. I do have the "knife behind the sternum" feeling, which might be "pleuritic chest pain" (I got that off wikipedia).

In short, it doesn't feel any shittier than stuff I've had before, so I am (perhaps unwisely) not very worried. Am I being naive?

Re: Okay, so I'm paranoid...

[dafydd.livejournal.com]

The lack of fever is encouraging. You're probably okay. If you can contrive to spit out the nasty tasting crap and find it greenish or pearlescent, a trip in for a test couldn't hurt.

Re: Okay, so I'm paranoid...

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I likely have a slight fever (hard to say, as I have no thermometer with me) but it's clearly not a high one.

The nasty stuff is dark yellow now. It was lighter this morning and at that time I couldn't really say whether it was more green or yellow, but it's definitely yellow now.

Thanks for the sanity check!