Any medical people about? (Yes I know I shouldn’t trust medical advice from random people on the net but I would like some opinions).
I have moderate asthma and Addison’s disease. I started to get a really nasty chest infection about 2 weeks ago. Lots of rattling noises when I cough, but when the gp listened to my chest it sounded clear as it was very low in my lungs. I didn’t have a particularly high temperature but then with addisons I take daily steroids so they tend to mask fevers anyway. I was coughing so much I actually caused myself severe back spasms that were so painful it was horrible.
The gp sent me for a chest X-ray (which was clear!) and gave me Clarithromycin - of which I have 2.5 days left. With the addisons I have been on double dose steroids for 2 weeks now (!) I am still not feeling much better. The rattle is still there and my peak flow is still quite low all the time even with the blue inhaler. I am feeling unsure as to whether the antibiotics are helping really, I don’t feel a lot different!
What would you do in this situation? Keep going until Tuesday and see the gp? Ring 111 - really don’t want to end up in a and e or anything like that unless it’s essential. Do chest infections just take an age to bugger off? Feeling a bit miserable. 
With the asthma and Addison’s it makes things a bit more complex than it would be for most people.
(For reference I am 37, healthy generally otherwise)!