I started coughing almost 3 weeks ago now and thought it must just be allergies. I was on night shift, it was a breezy night, and the doors to the plant were all open. The next night I couldn't make it through the shift and went home 3 hours early. I was out the rest of that week and all of the next. I was coughing so hard and for so long that I regularly ended up on hands and knees on the floor drenched in sweat from the effort. I timed it one morning , I coughed for 20 minutes straight ,no breaks. Take a breath, cough. Repeat. I had no apetite so had to force myself to eat, but couldn't keep up anywhere near my normal intake. This lasted for almost 2 solid weeks and I'm now back to work for a full week and back to working out.
It cost me 10 lbs! Strength is down on just about everything, of course. I had been benching 315 for 1 or 2 reps on my own, a 3rd with a spot from my wife.... the other day I struggled to get 275 up and got stuck with it on my chest on the 5th rep!! So now begins the slow struggle to claw back to where I was.
Amazing how fast it goes away... It sure doesn't come back that quick!
O, and the cough still lingers, though nowhere near as bad. But I'm still on some wicked cough syrup plus an inhaler! Next year I will get the flu shot!!
It cost me 10 lbs! Strength is down on just about everything, of course. I had been benching 315 for 1 or 2 reps on my own, a 3rd with a spot from my wife.... the other day I struggled to get 275 up and got stuck with it on my chest on the 5th rep!! So now begins the slow struggle to claw back to where I was.
Amazing how fast it goes away... It sure doesn't come back that quick!
O, and the cough still lingers, though nowhere near as bad. But I'm still on some wicked cough syrup plus an inhaler! Next year I will get the flu shot!!
