bad cold or chest infection??

[MsUumellmahaye]

How do you know the difference? I always struggle with this, have been fighting a cold for a week it is getting better but still have some pain in chest and a cough and feel generally tired, should i go to the doctors or not? i do have asthma but i am not wheezy or breathless at all.
TIA

I went to see Gp as I've had the same; hacking cough since boxing day, chest pain and awful phelgm. GP could hear crackles in chest so I have a weeks course of anti b. If you have asthma all the more reason to go

U should go to the gp generally for me chest pain means chest infection I'm also asthmatic and stupidly left a chest infection thinking it was viral and would go on it's own it didn't I ended up v poorly and over a yr on my chest is still not right. Better to get checked and b told ur fine than leave it and find y should have gone earlier

thanks guys, just back from docs, chest sounds clear so doesn't think infected just have to increase my steroid inhalor at the mo and see how it goes, gatekeeper I get that stern look a lot in RL :)

best to be on the safe side...drink lots of tea (with biscuits) is prescribed by Dr Gatekeeper

oooh can you be my GP :) thank you x