I went to my doctor 2 weeks ago with a horrible cough. He told me that i have bronchitis...again. Caused by a bacterial infection. As usual he prescribed an antibiotic. I started to feel better with the medication but finished it like i was told...Now it seems to be coming back again...with a vengance. Im having serious shortness of breath and a harsh cough with very little mucus coming up. I also have a fever.

I am going back to the doctor on Thursday but its such a long ways away. Ive been drinking lots of hot tea, and taking cough expectorants as the doctor said. I also put some vicks vaporub in a pan with some water and boiled it. All of these very temporarily relieve my symptoms but as soon as im done doing them, the cough is back...is there anything else i can do?

LilMeep, this one might sound really strange buy my mother swore by it.

Cut in half a brown onion, sprinkle it with sugar and place it in a bowl, leave overnight.
Next morning drink liquid that has collected in the bowl.

Now I cant be certain whether this worked, or I simply got better so I didn't have to drink it, but it certainly didn't hurt. Other than taste bad.

Try a mustard plaster on your chest You can Google the dirctions.

Otherwise, accept it--We don't know any more than you do. Question your doc--you may have something we know nothing about.

There is so much that all of us can google--we can diagnose ourselves, we can medicate ourselves--but we can't, yet, take over the role of our docs.