I started with a virus beginning of Octobr, probably COVID but I didn't test. I've just had it about 6 times before so know how I feel with it. Sore throat, temp, tired, reduced appetite, post nasal drip which turned into cough. I was able to power through at work with paracetamol etc and after a week started to feel a bit improved. Then I had a surprise bout of diarrhoea (fits with newer covid strains) and then I finally thought I was done with it all. But then the cough just got worse, and my sinuses seemed to just never clear, my throat was still mucousy with post nasal drip, and inflamed with a couple of red lumps, lymph nodes up. Still no real hunger but was managing to eat.
After 6 weeks or so of really awful coughing (colleagues kept commenting on how bad it was, it was embarrassing the extent of the coughing really) I went to the GP who gave me nasal steroid spray and a prescription for penicillin. The nasal spray did nothing and the penicillin just gave me awful indigestion and stomach ache. I was still coughing, still got sinus issues.
I've just been back again yesterday, basically to see if it's normal to still feel like that. Different GP. Sod's law the cough has suddenly more or less stopped but I still dont' feel like everything has properly cleared up. Still not feeling right. Still got the lumps in the same place on my throat, which she denied even being able to see (she must be blind because it's very obvious, and theyre not on my tonsils, so I really need someone to tell me what they are instead so I can not be worried about oral cancer). She also recorded my temperature as 26.9 🤔. And wanted to give me a prescription for Gaviscon. I refused that as I know any irritation is coming from my sinuses and not my stomach, as I can feel them drain when I shift and move in the morning and at night. She then sent me to get a chest X-ray which was pointless as my chest sounds clear but I think she felt she needed to do something. I was expecting a blood test but she didn't want to do that.
All in all I think I am verrrryyy slowwwwwly getting better in tiny increments over time, so that it's barely noticeable. But it's only when I realise that I feel hungry for the first time in nearly 10 weeks, or that I've only coughed a handful of times today, or only blown my nose 10 times that I realise the mucous is maybe starting to lessen. I've honesstly felt at times that I was never going to start improving and I feel like I've basically lost the autumn feeling rubbish through all of it.
I guess it's just been a post-viral cough/sinus issue that's lasted a long time. I'm going to make an appointment with the dentist if the lumps in my mouth don't alter though, I think they're sometimes better at identifying things like that.
I hope it starts to go soon, OP, but be prepared for a long wait. It's miserable while youre waiting for a sign of improvement, I know. And with me, I felt through all of it that there was some improvement, then any time I was doing too much activity i seemed to get worse again so I learned to really rest of an evening after work. I think good rest has been the best thing. and lots of fluids to keep the mucous thin. Sudafed with guafanesin helped me sleep better at night too.