Thanks for your recommendation, I'll have to keep that in mind for the future in case - Heaven forbid - this should happen to me again because it's now been almost 4 days since my symptoms started and what I've been coughing up is yellow and I think the other day I spit out green but if I irrigate my nose all I get is clear, so maybe the infection is in a sinus I cannot reach.... Because I'll be going to sleep soon (it's 10:28am here...) I'm pretty sure I won't be able to go anywhere today so I'll just continue with what I'm doing. In desperation, yesterday morning I made myself a saline solution with boric acid (which is pretty old), and put it in an empty glass spray mist bottle and, amazingly after a while of using I was able to go to sleep. I've kept using it and so far it seems to help stop the infection from traveling down my trachea to my bronchi so far. I've also gargled with sage tea and salt and that helped with inflamation of my throat.
I still would like to know though why I'm getting colds when for several years no matter the degree of exposure I didn't get a single one!