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Where are you located Ethereal? Sometimes diagnoses of respiratory infections are related to locale. For example, if you are in the south you could have West Nile Virus (just an example but it is going round now). If you are in AZ/NM you could have hantavirus. If you have an impaired immune system you could have histoplasmosis. However, most likely you have the common cold which we get from a virus so antibiotics would do you no good. I sympathize however as having a cold makes me miserable.

Usually I don't get colds in the summer months. The past couple of years though, in November, I have had bronchitis. Sucked.