Who's got this 'supercold'/hideous cough thing doing the rounds? How long did it last?

[Shimmylikejoanholloway]

Not Covid. Toddler DS started with a cough a week and a bit ago, fine otherwise, low grade temp but that was it. Thought it was a teething cough as his back molars are coming in.
Then DH started with it, now I have. DS seemed to recover for a few days and was only having occasional bouts of coughing at night, but seems to have got worse again. He coughed so much today during his nap he made himself sick :(

I think I might have to give the GP a call as he'll hit two weeks of it on Friday and it seems to be getting worse not better. I feel bloody terrible, aches, freezing cold, snuffly, sore throat, sore ears. I'd forgotten what it felt like to get ill!

Just finally getting over this covid lookalike bug , chest feels slightly less painful when coughing , sneezing . Six weeks on from first getting it then this morning tickley nose started , this evening can't stop sneezing and running nose . So fed up . 😞

Youngest DS had it a week and a half ago and this week has been at hospital with appendicitis-like stomach pain. Turns out he has mesenteric lymphadenitis, basically inflammed lymph nodes, and it's usually brought on as a result of a virus. Apparently they're seeing a lot of it at the minute because of covid and all the bugs going around this time of year so something to be aware of for anyone whose DC have the mutant cold at the moment.

We are on round 2 of this one. Just taken two more children for a PCR this morning, but I'm pretty sure they just haven't fully recovered from a couple of weeks ago.

mine turned into a chest infection so I finally had antibiotics last week.
still not quite over it, 7 week tomorrow from start