I tested positive for Covid late last month after a weekend trip where I, like a dummy, fell off of wearing N95s indoors. I came back home with Covid. I'm just glad that, at least, during travel, I was masked in public areas like the airport and on the plane.

I have type 1 diabetes, so my primary care team put me on Paxlovid. But that week was a ton of coughing and I was coughing up phlegm and mucus persistently for days. My consistent gripe was how gross it was as I even had phlegm projectiles at one point. (It was just a couple of times but ewwwww, no.) I'm now Covid negative. I'm still coughing and occasionally coughing up phlegm, especially in the morning after I sleep. In terms of progress though it's definitely less coughing, so that's good.

I did buy Dayquil and Nyquil and graduated to Mucinex afterwards to just give my lungs an assist. After a couple of days I stopped the cold medicine.

Based on what I've read, you don't enter Long Covid territory after 4-8 weeks as post-Covid cough is a thing. For now, I'm going to let my primary care doc know, keep resting, and drink tons of fluids. Easy for me as I love hot teas.

I'm going to also start weaving low-impact aerobic exercise back in. I KNOW that will get my lungs working, and I'll definitely cough stuff up. However, I'll also be getting back into shape.