At my wits end - Stinking Cold

[LMW1990]

So, I have had the worst cold I have ever had for the last 10 days it is not easing in anyway.

I'm pretty sure I have sinusitis due to the colour and texture (lumpy - sorry TMI!) of the crap coming out of my nose which is also bloody and when I cough. It's even coming out of my left eye which is red and sore.

I have a chesty cough which is driving me crackers.

It gets worse on an evening/night. I cannot breathe. It is unbearable. Both nostrils are completely blocked, my mouth is as dry as a bone and I keep panicking because I have episodes where I cannot swallow and feel like I'm choking.

I can't get a GP appointment for another week and I feel pathetic going to the Walk-in (which is connected to our local A&E) with a cold.

But I am wiped. I cannot sleep. I have tried:

Ibruprofen
Cocodomol - for when I feel like I've been kicked repeatedly in the face
Decongestants
Steaming my face
Vicks - which now just burns as my skin is raw
Drinking loads of water - did nada except made me constantly need a wee.

Any other suggestions? - in particular to help me breathe!!! I'm desperate!!!

Sooooo.... First day back at work. Cough had subsided to a chesty annoyance and I still sounded a little hoarse/ bunged up, but all in all felt 100 x better this morning. Mucus had been clear for days.

On getting home though totally different story... My nose is completely blocked again, I'm sneezing and coughing AND I've just filled 3 tissues worth of green/ yellow mucus. I am wiped out, totally shattered and feel shite again. Granted nothing like previously but how can I go from feeling almost completely better to feeling like this again!?

I give in...