I am so fed up with this cough

Join the clan - I have been coughing and coughing for weeks. Started as bronchitis and then the productive cough just will to go away. I sound like Fag Ash Annie!

GP gives me inhaler to try and clear it; and OH recommends steam inhalations to shift the phlegm. Lovely!

It is an annual trial and even the sun does not seem to shift it this year.

I do really sympathise and hope that it all goes away soon.

Me too, join the club. I exist on a diet of sudofed and piriton currently, with a side helping of Night Nurse and occasional sprays of Vick's First Defence, because I take pirinase nasal spray all year round for perennial rhinitis only it's just not working. I had several colds and then 'flu, ending up with the vile 100 day cough over the week between Xmas and New Year. I know how bad smokers must feel as soon as they move in the mornings now. I get another coughing bout as evening falls.

My mum was told by her doctor when she had cough that wouldn't go away, to take paracetomol. she said it worked for her especially at night time .Also I believe there is a cough mixture called "Pholcadeine" not sure how it is spelt, that is supposed to be good.

I've got it too - as has my daughter. Am assuming it will be gone by August!! really annoying during my yoga session this morning - embarrassing to boot particularly in the meditation period.

It's not going to cure the cough but Codeine Linctus has a cough suppressant that works really well. I was prescribed it when I had a chest infection it really did work to stop the cough.

Crikey! I've only been coughing for a couple of weeks, I hope it doesn't last 100 days. I know what you mean about uncontrollable barking, that's what I've been like. Now I have headache, bunged up nose and generally feel lousy.

Oh my goodness! So many of you still with this cough! I had assumed (wrongly, as it turns out) that I was the only one left with it and was feeling very sorry for myself. I must have a look at codeine based meds/cough mixture and check the interaction with my other meds. (Should have taken a degree in pharmacy with my current repeat prescription list) Thanks for the suggestions and I hope you all feel better very soon. Off to suck another couple of Hall's Soothers......

I haven't still got that cough. I've got it again. It's waking me at night and making my ribs ache.

DD has had it for three months. It's easing up a little but she's still coughing.

Ask your doctor if it could possibly be whooping cough. I thought it was an illness that only affected children until I caught it a few years ago. It didn't present like exactly like whooping cough. It was more like a prolonged chesty cough with no apparent cause.

That went through my mind too vampirequeen, it does seem unfortunate that this cough is so persistent for some GNs.
I do hope it'll clear up with the warmer weather coming. to you all.

VQ Whooping cough had crossed. my mind I knew an elderly man who's cough was finally diagnosed as this, despite him having had it as a child.

I had wondered about whooping cough myself....it's certainly not like any cough I've ever had before and I've had plenty, being asthmatic. I did have it as a child but that was over 60 years ago! Wouid whooping cough last this long??

Suppressing the cough is not always a good idea - it has a positive function in bringing up the phlegm and preventing it from settling in chest/bronchi and becoming infected.

Just been rooting about online and the symptoms of whooping cough do seem to fit. The problem seems to be getting a confirmed diagnosis. I can cope better with being unwell as long as I know what it is, I just hate not knowing and worrying myself to death about the 'what ifs', I may ask doc for blood test to see if there are any antibodies.

I had it on and off for about 4months, and asked my Dr. if it could be whooping cough. He said it was possible.
He gave me antihistamines and inhalants, eventually seems to have gone, fingers crossed.
Hope yours goes soon, Katek.

This thread hasn't brightened my day sadly

I've had over a week in bed with a horrible chest infection. The antibiotics are working though, the painful, hacking cough is easing and only woke me several times over night. So many people I know in RL and now here on gransnet coughing coughing and coughing some more. I've found steaming my head (lol) helps a bit.

Katek I had a similar problem about 5 years ago and although never satisfactorily diagnosed I thoroughly researched it and came to the conclusion it was whooping cough.

There is a midlands GP researching undiagnosed whooping cough in adults and his site was very useful. www.whoopingcough.net/symptoms.htm

Katek has had a chest xray and the rest of you with the cough should consider asking for one if your cough persists. There are lots of reasons why a cough persists and they need discounting. Last year DH had a silly nothing cough which turned into a persistent hacking cough. Turned out he had a partially collapsed lung.

They can also be heart related.

Mine is getting better very slowly. At a pace slightly slower than that of a snail.

Glad to hear that some people are improving - as indeed am I - but it was a huge inconvenience at the dentist this afternoon. Not only could I not keep my mouth open for long, but the dentist and his sidekick were looking at me as though I had the plague!

I thought, this week, that I had finally put paid to this chesty cough/cold virus having had four whole days of feeling OK (still coughing but not so much) however, during the night I woke with a dreadful sore throat and streaming nose, coughing my heart up again!!! Had a chest x-ray last week and doctor said he would contact me if there was a need to. He hasn't done so, so should I assume all is well in that area? and that it is just something that will come and go until it is finally gone?

I'm just on my fourth visit from this little bug who seems very attached to me. He/she or are they genderless? arrived just before Christmas spoiling many things I had planned. It came back in February, March and now again in April just as I am due to go on holiday. The hacking cough is wearing me out, even though it is loose at the moment. My GP said it wasn't whooping cough. She keeps this crystal ball thingy on her desk which she finds very useful. I've had enough!! I had actually started to trawl for information that would give me sinister reasons for this cough, and of course they were there aplenty, but was reassured that so many other gransnetters say they have/had it. It has admittedly affected my husband,my daughter and grandchildren too, so hopefully just a seasonal thing and I won't get it back in May. I love reading your comments - often very witty. Nice to have found gransnet.��