It's not the cough that carries you off

[HeyWayne]

...but my word will this one ever go away!?

I've had this cough pretty much since Christmas Eve and it's really starting to get quite annoying. Just when you think things are improving and you have a couple of days where you don't cough so much, then.......

What's the longest you've ever had a cough (smokers excepted)?

[piskieinboots]

... (smokers excepted)?

I read that as smokers expected

[janeyo]

I had one for 4 months, docs said it was the lingering tail of an infection. Drove me BONKERS. I have never smoked.
I used to sip neat whisky at bedtime (even though I hate it) as it used to then stop me from coughing all night.
Hope it clears up soon have you had any tests/ chest xrays etc to see if there is anything else going on?

[zazen999]

I used to have coughs ALL summer; resulting in either pleurisy; or bronchitus; or A N Other lung problem. Year before last [2008], I got it in June and the dregs was still hanging round last Oct.

Which is why I make every effort to STOP getting colds in the first place.....hence my extreme methods.

[HeyWayne]

I had one for 4 months, docs said it was the lingering tail of an infection. Drove me BONKERS. I have never smoked.
I used to sip neat whisky at bedtime (even though I hate it) as it used to then stop me from coughing all night.
Hope it clears up soon have you had any tests/ chest xrays etc to see if there is anything else going on?

The folks at work, and LadyWayne persuaded me to go to the doctors (Bean had a cough briefly too) and the doctor said, as I expected, that I indeed had a cough and that it would pass. He gave Bean the same diagnosis - his did.

[piskieinboots]

....hence my extreme methods.

which are?

[piskieinboots]

Wayne, did you try that German Doc? He may be of more help

[OllieMartin]

which are?

zaz had her epiglotis surgically removed and replaced with a steel pipe valve. It has two settings; "breath" and "swallow".

[zazen999]

which are?

zaz had her epiglotis surgically removed and replaced with a steel pipe valve. It has two settings; "breath" and "swallow".

Google 'hydrogen peroxide cold' and you will see.....

Cold-free now for 15 months [apart from one weekend where I didn't do it, and had a 48 hour cold, which went after I did it]....

[HeyWayne]

Wayne, did you try that German Doc? He may be of more help

No, but I've heard Dr Chestikov is a specialist in the area.

[Jeanied]

HW I don't want to scare you but if it is more than just a tickle in the throat you need to go back to doc- a friend of mine let hers carry on for months and ended up with permanently scarred lungs and reduced lung function.
You need all the oxygen you can get at that height!

[Dane End Dolly]

My cough started the day after boxing day, sort of dry hacking quite painful cough, put up with it for 4 weeks and hubbie insisted i go to the doctors, the doctor told me that there was a virus going around and that there was nothing i could do except use steam to soothe the throat, still cough but not so much and the infection in the windpipe is going but it is still there and quite irritating.

I feel if i wanted a cough like this, i would not have given up smoking all those years ago

bah humbug.......go i am a moody cow today...think i need a large glass of wine

[zazen999]

bah humbug.......go i am a moody cow today...think i need a large glass of wine

Really, I hadn't noticed.

[bubblewrap]

It's not the cough that carries you off,
But the coffin they carry you off in.

[bobleponge]

I dont want to "outcough" you big fella but I got mine in 1991. Was in Wales doing some Army stuff, and both me and my boss managed to go down with pneumonia.
Came back to Aldershot and went to see the doc, were both sent home for a week.
I felt ok but had a cough which has stayed with me ever since. Its not productive, I dont generally know I have it anymore, unless someone I know, who knows I had the cough before mentions that I still have it, but I have phases where I cough continually. It feels as if I have something caught in the back of my throat, which irritates when I breathe in.
Went a couple of times to see the Army docs but they couldnt see anything, "take 2 teaspoonfuls of footpowder and gargle, things will be fine" but it just hasnt gone. Ever.

Just as a very sad aside, my boss, who was about 15 years older than me, phoned me on our last day off to see how I was. We had a brief chat and he told me he was going to go out for a run that evening. I advised against, as he wasnt as young as he used to be, body had been messed up a bit, medicines etc etc but he assured me he would be fine, went for a run, and dropped dead of a heart attack. He was only 41 and a thoroughly nice bloke, dedicated to his wife and kids and brave as a big bag of brave things too.