3rd week with this stupid cough... It started out being a sore throat and a barking cough (I've had it twice before, it was pertussis aka whooping cough) so I didn't think anything of it. Then it got worse, and I kept coughing... A week later still coughing... I figured it was just persisting. So now in week three at the beginning of the week my throat was swelled up really bad but the swelling went down. So I thought I was fine (seeing a pattern here?) And now for the last few days it's not just barking, it's more like choking. My throat closes up when I cough and I physically can't breathe any air in between coughs. Feels horrible and hurts my chest like you wouldn't believe. I literally double over and have to sit for a few minutes afterwards just to breathe normally again. Oh yeah let's not forget the constant headache, fatigue, insomnia (although that's probably from coughing all night) chest and stomach pains and the fact that no cough medicine does ANYTHING Now going through that for three days I finally decided to go viisit the doctor so I'm going in tomorrow.... Sigh