Came down with a gnarly chest cold last month

Please answer my questions.

Lol, save money and take a "vacation" to a country that has healthcare for everyone.

cancer or aids

Do you want an answer or not? Answer my damn questions fag.

Ignore people telling you to go to ER or urgent care, that's for uneducated niggers who can't figure out what's an emergency and what's not. Just schedule a regular appointment whenever they've got one open if you're worried about it. It won't cost nearly as much as an ER visit.

1. I feel liquids come up when I cough, but I've never had the ability to hork lung gunk all the way up and spit it out. Just have to swallow it.
2. No dizziness. Aside from the cough and the creepy liquidy lung sensations I feel fine. Not even unusually tired or anything.
3. Nope. I've never experienced swollen ankles in my life. I'm skinny, if that makes a difference.

I'm trying to see if it's an emergency but he won't answer my questions. It seems like he's either trolling or dead.

Sorry, I'm a slow ass typer and that fucking "i'm not a robot" game takes for fucking ever.

Get an x-ray. A shadow on the x-ray indicates infection.

>>Week later, cough still lingering.
>>Month later, cough *still* lingering.
This is always a bad sign, even before you feel liquid or anything in there.
I did the same thing as you OP and thought the cough would go away, ended up with a lung infection that took like 2 months to finally go away, then it relapsed and i had the cough for another month.
But my country has a good healthcare system so it only cost $5 to see the doctor and $10 for 3 months worth of medications (4 sets of tablets, a powder, an arm patch and an asthma puffer).

You could have anything between pneumonia, bronchitis, adult onset asthma or even a fungus growing in there.
Stop being a cunt and see a doctor before it's too late. I left my cough like 2 weeks and the doctor was already worried that he'd caught it in time, if I'd waited I would've had permanent damage leading to asthma.

Okay that's extremely helpful. Some good news and some bad news. First the bad, It's a pleural effusion. This narrows it down quite a bit.
Any drugs or alcohol? Please say yes... Lol
It's not pneumonia. If no drugs, probably congestive heart failure. You'll live. Go to walk-ins. They'll refer you for a chest x-ray. Run basic tests, give you some really fun medicine that will make you piss out the excess water retention and fix any blockages.

Just saved you 300 dollars.

you guys are all pussies, I had that shit for 6 months and coughed up popcorn and couldn't fkin sleep because you'd cough so hard your blood pressure and pulse was like u where running a marathon in your bed...….know what I did to make it go away? 1 pack of cigs and 1 case of beer a day for 6 months. fuckin healthy as an ox right now.

my sister in law had that (was pneumonia), didn't get it seen to and it turned into non hodgkin's lymphoma - you should get it checked man

lol I'm 40 years old and have been to a doctor a whopping 2 times in my adult life. One trip to a clinic for strep throat, and one trip to the ER when I had my first migraine because I thought I was dying. I honestly have no idea how to make a doctor appointment if I wanted to.

I'm hardcore DIY when it comes to healthcare. And by DIY, I mean I just let nature work it's magic. The body's immune and healing systems work better than people believe. IF you also don't take any medicines that trick you into over-straining yourself and making it worse.

Avoiding all modern medicine, even the OTC stuff, is my secret to good health. But this damn lung issue is making worry that I might have to make my third ever trip to a doctor if I can't get rid of it soon.

In the morning drive your happy ass to the local hospital and ask the front desk for walk-in clinic. Don't go to the ER. That's for stuff like a car wreck and you'll likely end up with an infection from over worried mom's and their demon spawn.

It's a pleural effusion. Not life threatening but act tomorrow or Monday or you could blow an arterial wall. They'll give you water pills to pee it out. Probably got an infection in your heart wall. It'll get better on its own but may leave you with lung scarring which is uncomfortable and life alerting.

Nigga go to ER. I got fucking pneumonia and went to the doctor on the last minute. I almost died.
They got me on the hospital 2 weeks to clean the infection, and had to stay at home and do nothing for 2+ weeks more cause I couldn't breathe properly.

I'm the same way - a lot of people go the doctor for things that they should stay home and rest for. But every now and then if something won't go away, you just give them a call and say you'd like to schedule an appointment, and they'll walk you through it. I think I've only gone once in the last 15 years, when I had a fever that hadn't cleared up after 5 days and was accompanied by symptoms similar to meningitis (and I had recently been in contact with a kid who had come down with meningitis leading to brain damage).

Heart failure? Eeesh, lol.

Nope, no drugs or alcohol. I'm a rare ass specimen of a human being who has never once tried alcohol, any recreational drug, or tobacco. I don't use OTC medicines either, unless a couple of supplements counts. 250mg of magnesium and 3mg of melatonin to help me sleep during the work week, and a buttload of psyllium fiber to combat my chronic constipation.

Pleural effusion sounds likely. Heart failure... I'm highly skeptical. I would think I'd be short of breath or something if my heart was going out on me...

If it were pneumonia he would have other accompanying symptoms. It's just an effusion from the original infection. Liquid around the lungs in the chest cavity, think like a head cold but there's no where for the liquid to go but through the blood stream.

Congestive heart failure is when fluid builds up around the heart and lungs. Not life threatening but extremely uncomfortable. You need water pills and clyndamiacin.

That cold did devastate my lungs for 24 hours. One of the most painful coughs of my life. Fortunately the bad part cleared up after a couple days... except this damn liquidy lung cough that won't go away.

Unless you're literally dying don't go directly to the ER
if you are paranoid about pneumonia OP don't worry, unless you are chronically malnourished, elderly, or a small child you should be fine
if you start to develop a high fever start panicing within reason

Yeah I would be shitting bricks if I had a fever. I rarely get fevers unless I'm seriously sick, and then they are terrible.

Had influenza a few years ago, and could understand why old people die from it. That shit could definitely kill someone who's health was compromised.

>fluid builds up around the heart and lungs
Not him but how does this happen?