Is This Normal For Flu?

[Boto]

I had flu, or a very bad cold, from before the New Year. The cough lingered but then about 10 days ago the cough got worse and also a sore throat. I still have the sore throat but the cough is a bit better. Should I really go to see my GP? It's so difficult to get an appointment within a week or so. Thanks.

[Sqad]

Well...it certainly is a well known pattern for winter viral infections and I would suggest Ibuprofen 400mgs as and when necessary for the sore throat.
I can't see that a GP appt would have anything more to offer.

[Boto]

Thanks, sqad, that's good to know.

[Old_Geezer]

I'm told that colds do not linger for ages buut I had something about me I expected tp flare up since November. It finally did about a fortnight ago and I was inside trying to keep warm and find comform for about a week and a half. The only reason I went to the GP was that society doesn't trust me when I say I am too ill to work for more than 7 days, but apparently a GP is trustworthy and can give me a 'still not fit' note if I can crawl to the surgery.

[Hopkirk]

Just thank your lucky stars you are not suffering from manflu

[RATTER15]

and if you are a smoker it will last even longer and make the sore throat worse.

Been there done it!!

[jd_1984]

Try to rest, take ibuprofen if needed. Hot baths, vapour rub on the chest at night. It will clear eventually... I have had the flu once and it was a month until I could honestly say I was myself again. I too had the lingering couch and sore throat about 7 days after all other symptoms went away.

[Hopkirk]

A lingering couch JD?

Is that because you couldn't get off it?

[jd_1984]

Haha Hopkirk!! My mistake!!