I am currently on day 4 cefdinir 300 mg. 1x, and prednisone (dose amt.?) 2x, along with a steroid inhaler. Symptoms began as runny nose, cough, congestion - felt like bronchitis. 2 weeks after initial onset of symptoms, still sick - in fact sicker. Began running fever of 101, constant cough now, chills, night sweats though not profuse. My six year old and husband are showing the same symptoms, though my husband complains his body hurts. My daughter got sick first and has J.I.A., so she tends to get everything. Environmental history - we are teachers. He teaches some lower middle class adult students who come from poorer neighborhoods, and I teach 60 elementary piano students one on one in close quarters. My students have the means to travel, and do. As the school year has begun, I can safely say 4 weeks in that about 30% of the student body has come down with something - probably 2/3 of those with bad and prolonged cough like me. So here is the thing - I have NEVER ever felt this way and I tend to get bronchitis a LOT. This seems different - more unrelenting, with a really strange rattle in my trachea and bad chest ache. There seems to be a low rattle as well. Since I live in Atlanta where there is increased HIV activity and a corresponding recent outbreak (last year) of tb, do I need to have a complete freak out and think that this is tb or something like Legionnaires, or do I just calm the freak down, have some chocolate ice cream and wait for my doctor to be back on Tuesday?