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Look, tex, you had a viral infection. It just takes this long for the immune system to start to catch up with the bug. The antibiotics didn't help a bit, and you shouldn't be taking antibiotics just to take them, especially if they are someone else's. Antibiotics anymore are specific for certain bugs. In fact, you're probably helping select for stronger bacteria as we speak. Please don't don that again.

Most of your anelgesics (advil, tylenol, aspirin, alive, etc) will help with swelling, and therefore with pain. However, it is the swelling and pain that means your body is fighting the infection.

I'm glad to hear you're felling better.

especially if they are someone else's

Eh, that's an old doctors tale just so they can take more money from us. us po folks go to our friends medicine cabinets b4 we go spend some money on something we may already have free access to. Plus my doc gave me a prescription for antibiotics and told me to fill it if it didn't stop after a week. I just upped the anti. Heck, if I were in Mexico, I wouldn't even need the doc. I would just start taking stuff till it got better.