Can’t sleep for coughing - any tips please?

I had a cough for months last year and found propping up my pillows and using a v shaped pillow at the same time helped. I kept some jakemans honey and lemon sweeets and sucked on them surprisingly this worked. When all else failed I resorted to an anthihistamine.

I find the Benylin dry coughs night time mixture very useful if a cough keeps me awake. It really knocks me out so regardless of what sort of cough I have I take some very last thing at night and it usually gives me a decent night's sleep. I do not take anymore if I do wake as I find it quite potent.

I tend to slip down if I am propped up with pillows. Try raising the head of your mattress instead. Hope you feel better soon,

Covonia and increased pillow height.

I'm trying to convince myself 'it's only a cold'. However the runny nose and occasional sneezes are now accompanied by a deep, hollow, unproductive cough. At times it's in uncontrollable hiccuping spasms. Any advice?

Whoop, whoop, got some sleep last night, feel so much better and have a lovely relaxing day today. It was quite a performance for bedtime, vicks on feet and socks on (couldn’t do vicks on chest due to radiotherapy affected skin oooooooo, even the thought!), a codeine tablet (left over from recent surgery), dose of cough medicine, aromatase inhibitor tablet, E45 to mastectomy scars and zzzzzzzzzzing with just several short bursts of the damn cough, but back to sleep each time (lucky to have woke up after all that I know), feel soooooo much better, onwards and upwards, thanks again for all the tips x

Just looked at the link, its cocoa that has the magic properties. The artical advises taking one of the new products containing cocoa. I understand dairy increases mucus formation so a bar of choc may have the opposite result - big shame :-)

When I was in hospital with pneumonia they gave me codeine to stop me coughing. I still use it now and it always works. Does cause constipation though.

Boots Night Time Cough Relief. It works a treat and puts you to sleep too. Only behind the counter and sometimes they are out of stock.

Eucalyptus oil helps. It’s clears your airways.
But sometimes a cough can take weeks to clear, though take heart. It will go eventually.

Ive bought Mucus cough med and I am now hunting through the medicine cabinet for vicks for my feet! Thank you for your tips x

Ahh Ive just seen Joelise's post. Should have read to the end of the posts!

This is going to sound weird.....but it works! Rub a generous amount of Vicks on the soles of the feet and put on a pair of socks before you go to sleep.
Give it a try!

Covonia or Buttercup syrup are very good, also rub Vicks on the soles of your feet and cover with socks , I know that this sounds strange but it does work, goodness knows how !

Well last night was another big fail, I really need some quality sleep, JE65, that sounds like witchcraft lol. I am off for a bottle of cough med today and will dose up on Sleep Aid as well. Good job I only have a Christmas Party to go to this afternoon. I am so fed up of looking like death warmed up, I am pasty faced as it is, but this look is not pretty, well it is, pretty awful!

Slice an onion thinly, cover it with brown sugar and let it stand weighed down with a saucer. The resulting juice is to be taken with a teaspoon.

If you make it up in the morning, it will be ready to take at bedtime.

This is my grandmother's recipe for dealing with an obstinate cough.

Daddy (she was his mother) and I agreed it worked by scaring the cough to death, as it tastes revolting, even when you have a heavy cold, so you stopped coughing in order not to have to take any more of it.

I does work though, I have forced myself to take it as an adult.

Try cider vinegar diluted with water sipped when the cough strikes. Keep it ready by the bedside.

Raised pillows.

Katiekrunch I can sympathise, nothing worse awake all night and knackered all day!

Chocolate cheese or anything creamy exacerbates my night time cough so I avoid after about 4pm.
I sometimes take a piriton.

I have found hot drink at bedtime made from lemon, ginger and honey in hot water also helps.

I still require several pillows and a plenty of water at the ready.

I had the horrible cough which has been going around and came across something new that was completely wonderful - a product called Kaloba, Pelargonium cough and cold relief syrup. It came from Holland and Barrett. Apparently pelargonium is a traditional remedy for coughs and it did the trick for me. Hope that helps someone.

Pholcodine (maybe phlocodine?) is really good for the night time coughs.
It can be found behind the counter in Boots.

Chocolate starts me off coughing!!It must irritate my throat.

However, that doesn't put me off

I bought an Olbas nasal spray today for DH as I think his irritating cough may be caused by "nasal drip".

Bronchostop

Thank you all, the chocolate one sounds the best lol. I have the nasal spray, the vicks and the chocolates to try tonight, hopefully will get some zzzzzzzzzz’s

I know you'll think I'm making it up but eating chocolate will help stop a cough. That's all we use in our family. And most weeks I eat some as a precautionary measure (Ha ha). You need to have a small bar, not just one cube.
www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/wellness/news/a36300/cough-cure-chocolate/