Anyone needed antibiotics for chest?

[TheVolturi]

Dh tested positive this week and now I am most of our house are positive. I tested last night and was positive and I honestly felt fine, just a bit rubbish but no actual symptoms. Woke up today with heavy cold, and a chesty cough, that feels deep and hard to cough up if you know what I mean? I have had a chest infection that came on like this very quickly a couple of years ago, but with this being covid I am worried. Thy Dr is ringing me in the morning. I can't see much online about a harmless chesty cough with covid?
My temp is high and without paracetamol I am achy and shivery. Can't afford to be in bed as I have three young dc.

If it’s covid, antibiotics will be useless. You’d need antivirals.

I have covid- your symptoms sound similar to min- shivery and achey, bit odf a temperature and I have a cough that feels like that although not really any mucus coming up- small amount. It's not a chest infection and you need to give it more time I would say- a cough is the most common symptom.

Even though covid is viral that doesn’t mean you can’t contract a secondary infection which is bacterial while your fighting it. Best bet is to wait and talk to the gp (unless you get worse overnight of course)

You only tested positive last night- your covid symptoms are only just beginning so it would be highly unlikely you have developed a secondary chest infection at this stage!

We were told they give antibiotics only if you bring up green or yellow phlegm as it would indicate a secondary infection. Otherwise you just need to sit it out, perhaps a cough medicine could help soothe the chest, plus the usual hot drinks.

Don't most colds result in green or yellow phlegm? Mine do! Never had a chest infection- it's just the way the body fights of colds- green snot is how you tell the difference between a cold and an allergy!

Thanks for replies. I am shivering uncontrollably at times and feel really awful. The last chest infection I had came out of nowhere, I was fine one minute and the next I was floored, I don't mean the next day, I mean within hours. I week see what the Dr says in the morning. I hope to feel miraculously better! I am not the type to ask for antibiotics, or to have them for anything, but this is a deep cough that is bringing up mucus and it takes quite a bit of coughing to get it up, like it's blocking something and I can't stop until it up if that makes sense. I have not been able to see what colour it is yet!

I developed a secondary chest infection with Covid and had a course of antibiotics for it, plus two more courses for a kidney infection.

111 prescribed the antibiotics a week after my symptoms of Covid began. I was originally coughing up normal phlegm and then started coughing up yellow phlegm.

I'm asthmatic though, so don't know how much of a bearing that had on me being given antibiotics.

OP, I've had pneumonia (type of chest infection) twice in the past - symptoms for that were different to yours, but I wouldn't hesitate to contact Doctor if I had the same symptoms again with Covid as I was really ill.

If in doubt speak to doctor tomorrow. If you feel much worse in the night don't forget 111.

I was given a course of amoxicillian (sp) then doxycycline for secondary infection.

Thank you. Will see what the morning brings, or the next few days.

You have Covid- you should expect to have symptoms.

I tested positive on Monday- I started with shivering, high temperature and progressed over the next few days to feeling achey and coughing. I feel a bit better today- less achey, no temperature, a bit more energy- still coughing.

@Yogsgirl

You have Covid- you should expect to have symptoms.

I tested positive on Monday- I started with shivering, high temperature and progressed over the next few days to feeling achey and coughing. I feel a bit better today- less achey, no temperature, a bit more energy- still coughing.

I do expect to have symptoms. However a deep productive chesty cough is not a symptom of covid. The Dr has given me antibiotics due to my history of chest infection. He said himself that covid is not usually a chesty cough. However I am not going to start them right away, I would rather see how I go, I would prefer my body to fight it but am glad to have a backup.