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Living in Russia. I spent two weeks battling bronchitis, and for the first few days, I treated it as a common cold (because the ambulance doctor, seeing my temperature of 39.3, which was actually 39.7, said I didn't have bronchitis, even though I had all the symptoms). Then I found out I did have bronchitis and had to switch to completely different medication, realizing that I had been making things worse all along. After that, I spent almost a week treating myself with various teas, expectorant pills, and inhalations, only to discover that things were actually getting worse, I needed injections, and I had to take a different type of antibiotic, and that there was a suspicion of pneumonia. I have a feeling that in a couple of days, it will turn out that the suspicion is confirmed, and it will become clear that I've been treating it wrong all this time and only making the situation worse.