I hope your Dr. didn’t give you an antibiotic unless you had a bacterial infection of some sort. Antibiotics are not only useless against a viral infection, the over proscribing of them is one of the reasons believed responsible for the decrease in effectiveness of antibiotics. As is people who do not take them as proscribed like taking on half of them, and when feeling better, stopping.
Since you’ve mentioned being sick going on 5 weeks, it sounds likely you have a bacterial infection of some sort, perhaps bronchitis, perhaps a secondary infection as a result of having a virus.
BTW, he ordered me NOT to take OTC cough medicines. Use musinex, 800 ML advil a day and a anti histamine.
Yes for an unproductive cough you definitely want to stay away from cough suppressants. My Dr. also recommended that I use Mucinex.
He did that because of my medical history. Cronic Asthma and heart problems-stent. My BP was very high at the time.
He agreed that antibiodics are not to be administered for viruses, but also said that because they have not been hitting illness with strong antibiodics and using oral instead of stronger, has resulted in the problems we are having today with such.
I agree with him.