Need Someone Who Understands

I am having the hardest time. I just spent a good half hour in hysterics over the feelings that are going on in my throat and windpipe. I came down with a virus last Monday and had the full on sore throat and body aches and now I have a cough that will not leave me alone. I just spent the last half hour crying, gagging, coughing, and trying to breathe. I’m so overwhelmed and it feels like it will never go away. I’m supposed to go to therapy today. I have to go to work this week. But I can’t sleep. I’m at the end of my rope. How long will this whole thing last? The gagging and the tickle and the choking are so hard to deal with