7 months pregnant and sick with an upper respiratory tract infection for the last SIX WEEKS! HELP!!!

[ryleeee]

no joke...it started mid-january with a pretty rotten head cold that lasted eight days. i finally felt great and that lasted about...4 days. then i got hit pretty hard with a cough which quickly turned into a painful coughing-up-disgusting-stuff kind of cough. i went to the doctor and he gave me T3s to help me sleep because he said the codeine was safer than ephedrine (he told me to take up to 8 a day! wtf! that is insane! i took one a night for like 3 weeks...i stopped taking them 4 days ago because the coughing is no longer keeping me up at night). he also gave me a pulmicort inhaler to take twice a day for 2 weeks, i am still taking it because i am still sick.

over the last week or so i've felt like it is moving back up into my head and i am seriously (TMI) a snot machine. i'm talking every neon colour you can imagine, and i'm coughing it up AGAIN too. i also have had a headache for 3 days. ugh!!! did i mention that i have been sick with this stupid cough since about january 25th?! sheesh. i am soooooo over this sickness. 

what do i do?

should i go back to the doctor? 

i have a midwife appointment on wednesday, should i stick it out until then? 

someone reassure me that i am not dying.

 =__=

[lyndie]

I have no advice, just big hugs!! 

[ryleeee]

hugs are appreciated!!! thanks, lyndie <3

[PAgreenmama]

whatever is going around this year is super nasty!  we had it for most of february.

have you used a neti pot?  i use mine several times a day when i'm really snotty.  and i read something recently about adding probiotics to a neti pot to help with sinus infections.  other than that we do lots of vit c, vit d, probiotics, and honey and lemon in hot water.  oh, and i'm no expert in homeopathics but they can be amazing.  we've had luck with just the sambucal and occilococinum (both probably spelled wrong)... they're worth a try!  

i hope you start feeling better soon!!

[ryleeee]

so i caved and went back to the doctor. same old upper respiratory tract infection AND a sinus infection....ugh. they gave me amoxicillan because they are pretty sure i am just multiplying bacteria a lot. so yay. 

i do NOT want a yeast infection on top of this! what can i do to avoid that?!