Following up with my previous post......I'm just going to slightly elaborate more.
Technically it likely is just a normal respiratory bacterial infection for me. Unfortunately, for me, doctors tend to consistently give me the wrong diagnosis - they often prescribe me Amoxicillin, and if I don't recover, many doctors automatically assume it is my sinus or asthma acting up, and proceed to give me medicines that do not cure my underlying illnesses - untreated bacterial infection.
I went back to the clinic six times over the course of two weeks, and saw four different doctors. The first was nonchalant and dismissive, and practically shrugged me off as normal infection and sent me home after giving me something I suspect to be a 'standard' medicinal pack.
The second was a little more reassuring but unfortunately did not identify the problem.
The third was better but again didn't tackle the root cause.
I was coughing my lungs out during the visits and over the three weeks. I was given few bottles of cough syrups that did not help much. And I consistently repeated and emphasised that the cough syrups I were given were not helpful, yet all of them sent me home with the same or more cough syrups.
The fourth doctor.....he was the angel. I wished I caught his name.
He took a peek into my throat via his torch yet he reached the contrary conclusions from the other three doctors, even though all the other three did the same thing - he noticed my throat was still red after three weeks of coughing, and he saw that I was prescribed Amoxicillin. He immediately knew the antibiotics I had failed to neutralise the bacteria in me and gave me a stronger antibiotics and corticosteroids to relieve my throat inflammation which was giving me coughs that were building my abs.
I recovered rather rapidly over the next few days.
Old doctors are very, very much better than young doctors nowadays.
That being said, I'll avoid going back to the clinic from now on. The sad thing is it's the nearest to my place of residence.