Never heard of the thing about drinking everything at room temp - going to give it a shot though and hope it helps! I've had this crud since before Christmas and I'm so tired of it!! I'm admitting defeat (a rare thing!) and going to the Dr. today. I'm to the point where I'm getting a little better each day, but that's been going on for so many days!! I'm guessing that it may be the same thing my daughter had before the holidays - I took her to the Dr. the Thursday before Christmas for an earache and left with a pneumonia diagnosis. Horrible stuff going around in my neck of the woods.

Thanks again for the ideas!

Well, I'm done with my antibiotics and guess what? They didn't help! Dr. told me to call if they weren't helping, so I called today. They can get me in for an appt. in the morning. I asked the nurse practitioner lots of questions and came to the conclusion that this is most likely viral in nature and not a secondary (bacterial) infection apparently. So......... going to give it some more time - she told me to call back on Monday if not getting any better. I seem to have stagnated - even with being on antibiotics -- I'm not getting any better, but at least I'm not getting any worse! Antihistamines, decongestants, and mucinex aren't having any effect either. Seems that hot and room temp liquids (lot's of them!), saline nasal spray & ibuprofen help the most.

Considering going to the Dr. Monday and asking to try an antiviral. I've never had one before and hate to try new meds because most of them effect me in ways they're not supposed to! :roll: Hence, why I like homeopathic remedies better! Almost all antihistamines make me jittery, turn me into an insomniac and make me feel like I have bugs crawling on my scalp instead of sleepy. Eww..... I hate that!

I had this about 4 weeks ago. I took my meds, got lots of sleep, drank as much water as I could hold. I ended up gettingbetter, so I thought then it turned into pleurisy and pneumonia. I was at the point I could speak 3 or 4 words hen had to sto to breathe. It was really pretty bad. I have found that I have to stay on my meds, drink as much room temp to hot things I can,honey and lemon helped so much. I sleep alot. However I am better. I was told it wil ake up to 3 weeks for y lngs to totally heal.

So I agree, if you get this take it seriously. I did but still went down for well over a week.