What's up Part 2: Whooping Cough?

Okay what else is going on my life? Hmm... well I have had this awful cough for 7 weeks now. It pretty much sucks but oh well. It started May 12th (yes I know the exact date. I even kept track of my symptoms in case I decided to see a doctor...which I tend to avoid...). I was in New Jersey and we went for a hike that day and I was so exhausted. That evening I started coughing pretty bad, but I didn't think much of it. So I went to bed and the next morning I woke up miserable. My tongue felt swollen, my throat hurt, and my ears ached like hell. I didn't know what was wrong, but my sister's boyfriend searched the symptoms and he said dehyrdation has all those symptoms. I thought it made sense since I had been hiking the day before, maybe I just didn't get enough water or something? ...yea dehydration my ass... so pretty much the pain and coughing continued for a week and while I was in Vermont at my mom's. On May 19th I had a fever, bad enough to worry my boyfriend. When we woke up in the morning I had soaked the sheets in sweat. My fever only lasted two or three days, but the cough remained and the pain. On May 21st I started antibiotics, and I took those for ten days as well as pain reliever whenever necessary. For the last few days of treatment I was back in Montana. The antibiotics seemed to make the sore throat go away and most of the pain, but that awful cough wasn't budging.

Around June 10th I started to lose my voice. I could not talk very well for a few days. One day I woke up feeling sick and I went to the bathroom and threw up. Another day I coughed so hard that I threw up on the bed. eeew. On the 13th my throat started hurting again and my tonsils felt swollen. I noticed a lot of white pus in the back of my throat. Then a day or two later that pain went away, but I was still coughing. Then about a week ago I got a runny nose and started sneezing a lot. I am still sneezing now and then now, but not as much. I think within the past week I started retching, which is when you gag... well you feel like you are throwing up but you don't. That happenes now and then, but that cough is the worst. And it is not just any ordinary cough. It is a very severe chronic cough. I get these coughing fits and my throat tightens and I feel like I can't breathe, which makes me cough even worse. Sometimes I would cough so hard my chest would hurt and I'd be in pain. Ugh it's nasty nasty. I have never experienced this kind of cough before, and especially not one that lasted so long. It's been 7 weeks nonstop. But it's strange because I don't really feel too sick most of the time when I'm not coughing. For a while I thought maybe it's asthma or something. I still don't know what it is, but I did read about whooping cough, and it sounds a lot like what I am going through. Well whatever it is, I just hope it goes away soon!