Suspected Whooping Cough

A few years ago I had a persistent respiratory infection that lasted nearly a year. During that time I developed a really racking cough. I had episodes of extreme coughing, lasting minutes and leaving me exhausted and dizzy. I came close to both whooping and being sick several times. Once the bout of coughing was over I was cough free for several hours then would bout.

I was told informally by someone whose medical judgement I trust, that I almost definitely had whooping cough. It cleared up after a month, although the respiratory complaint, include mild coughing, continued.

Just to cheer you up a bit more Badenkate, the doctor told me this morning that whooping cough is now sometimes known as 'the hundred day cough'.

There certainly have been a lot of people with persistent coughs around here - West Yorkshire - this winter.

I don't know what it's like where you are Coppernob but most people round here seem to have a cough that just won't go - or comes back if it does. Someone heard me coughing last week and said 'Oh, you've got the hundred day cough ' which cheered me up immensely .

That's interesting, Coppernob, because last winter there was an epidemic of that kind of cough here (France) and I think it was around in the UK as well. It was mentioned on here, there's a thread somewhere.
I had the cough from Dec. 2014 to March 2015. I asked the doctor if it could be whooping cough and he said possibly, it's all over, with older adults.
I never had it as a child, and wasn't vaccinated against it.
It finally cleared up and this last winter I've been ok (TG, fingers crossed.) Hopefully I've built up a resistance to it now, if that's what it was. Sorry, no advice, except usual cough remedies didn't touch it.