It’s not just allergies

I went to the doctor because I was congested and having drainage that was making my throat raw and it just wasn’t going away.

I was told it was just allergies, twice. So I kept taking allergy meds and it didn’t help anything.

It got worse, it had gone down into my chest. I can’t explain how miserable I was. For more than 2 weeks.

TMI this is disgusting, but because I was so congested I was breathing through only my mouth in my sleep. I had drainage of course and had like mucus dried and stuck in the back of my throat. So I’d wake up gagging and coughing up dry-ish bloody mucus. That was disgusting and didn’t help the gagging

This was like, make your head spin and pound congested on top of my chest being congested and a horrid cough. I couldn’t take a normal breath like you could just hear that crap in my chest and I couldn’t cough it all up no matter how much I coughed.

So I went to a different doctor and found out it was a sinus infection and an upper respiratory infection. Finally got some antibiotics and the relief.... it’s day 3 and I feel so much damn relief. I feel like a human being again instead of a snot monster.

Sorry I’ve been miserable for a while and now feel so much better wow

It makes me sad that I was being told I just had bad allergies when I needed antibiotics. I felt like an idiot when I went back the second time. I knew it had to be more than just bad allergies and it was. Listen to your body and if you feel like a doctor Isn’t listening go to a different one.

Edit: they didn’t listen to my lungs but it didn’t move down into my lungs until I had already seen that first doctor twice. He looked at my throat and that was is. The 2nd doctor did listen to my lungs. She did that first thing because I was hacking as she walked in.