I am a 58 year old woman living in Calgary, AB. I came down with a 'cold' (pretty sure it's not the flu) on the 29th of Dec. As of the 31st started feeling worse. Spent most of the last 3 days in bed. My whole face hurts - sinusitis I presume. Yesterday morning it triggered a migraine. Last night I thought I'd try checking my temperature - it was 100.8. I took a T3 with my night-time meds. Slept ok. At 8 a.m. woke up - felt miserable - took my temperature and it was 101.3. Headache was building again and felt nauseous so took another T3 and a prochlorazine and went back to sleep. 6 hours later I felt not too bad, temp was 98.6 - bang-on normal. I've been resting all day still, drinking plenty of fluids. My face still hurts, lymph nodes in the neck still somewhat swollen and sore. I tend to get infection-induced asthma so have been regularly using my Ventolin inhaler to control that. So this is Day 6 and I still feel miserable, still fighting a fever. I see stars when I cough. Cough is for the most part unproductive - occasionally a small amount of mucus which I presume is from post-nasal drip.
My Dad was quite worried about me the other night - he's a retired GP - because I seemed out of breath on the phone.. That improved once I used the inhaler again.
My line of work is veterinary medicine so have relatively good grasp of things medical. But prefer NOT to be my own doctor...
Question - should I be concerned? Or should I just continue to rest and 'wait it out'