Persistent Phlegm

Sometime yesterday, I started feeling I have phlegm or mucus in my throat that I am unable to cough out. It was worse during the night, and it was irritating enough that I could not sleep at all. I have tried coughing hard and often, but it still feels like something is stuck in my throat. My throat also hurts from all the coughing. It kind of feels like the time after surgery when I was painfully coughing up phlegm for weeks.

In addition to a sore throat, I feel like vomiting from all the coughing. I also have the weird hot flash symptom, but my temperature is normal when measured using two separate thermometers. I just took a COVID rapid test in case I got infected somehow. Results in about ten minutes. So right now, I feel extremely tired but still cannot sleep due to the weird throat symptoms.

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The hot flashes is super strange too. I feel like I have a sunburn, but my skin is not warm to the touch. Meanwhile, I am sctually cold since the ambient temperature feels cold compared to my fake hot skin?

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The first batch of COVID tests I grabbed from my drawer expired in 2022. These were the thin orange boxes. I used a lot of these when I got COVID on our Europe trip. I then found a bunch that were in white boxes and loked something you can get at Costco or Walmart. You are supposed to wait fifteen minutes, but it has been over twelve minutes and there is no indicvation of a COVID infection.

It has been fifteen minutes, and the results still show negative.

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About two hours has passed since I started this post. I ended up throwing up twice, both times from me sticking a finger down my throat. There was not much food, but a lot of acid. I did feel better after throwing up, and the hot flashes mostly disappeared. My throat is still very sore and the feeling of having phlegm stuck in my throat remains.