Hi everyone, hope the lack of recent posts means you're all doing much better! Sadly, I'm back to report that I seem to be ending the year much the same way it started. I feel unbelievably poorly and crap 
Has probably been creeping up for a while but finally floored me this week. Horrendously sore dry hacking cough that sounds like fingernails down a blackboard and feels like a hot hacksaw gnawing away at my chest and throat. No energy, bloodshot eyes, very low. Whooshing and ringing sounds in my ears, constant phlegm and leaky nose. Been very cold today and mostly slept, with a hot water bottle, heating turned up, then feel cold and shivery under the covers but wake up sweating. Aches and pains, high temperature (no thermometer but I can feel it). Midweek I decided it was bronchitis, at least in part, and started a course of a broad spectrum antibiotic which I have in from a previous prescription I didn't end up using. Dread to think where I'd be tonight if I hadn't taken it. Often when i breathe in it feels like something at the top of my chest (low in my throat, maybe) is so tender and sore, makes me catch my breath.
Not vomiting but since this morning can only face toast and chocolate, maybe later I'll have fruit. Drinking plenty of fluids but I'm exhausted with it and look ten years older (at least!) Really reminds me of the hell of last winter, just praying it doesn't last as long. Feeling v sorry for myself, no visitors and voice too tired to speak on phone. Was due to have a colonoscopy next week but rang up to reschedule it all today, just couldn't face it right now. My usual distractions when poorly (telly, books, music, etc) hardly appeal at all, and my dreams are very flat and ponderous.
Can anyone relate? I have even wondered if 'this is it' at certain moments! Melodramatic probably, but it can feel so bleak and lonely. Sorry for moaning on, lol. Fingers crossed you're all doing fine and this is just my rotten luck to end the year pretty much as it started 