Just Give Me 10 Days - Round 258

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  • Garbagegang
    Garbagegang Posts: 59 Member
    musicsax wrote: »
    @musicsax I don’t know what your cough is like but I had one (as did many other people) that lasted for MONTHS when we lived in Illinois. No prescription cough meds helped. I spent four months sleeping in my recliner because I started to cough if I was lying down. The doctor told me several months later that he and some other area doctors had been together discussing this as each had patients with the same condition. They decided we had had whooping cough!

    I remember DS had whooping cough when we were kids, her racking cough sounded like a seal barking, 60 years on I can still hear it in my head! My cough is not like that (luckily), but it has been so persistent especially when I lie down at night, keeping me awake. But I am pleased that it does seem to have subsided quite a lot during today, so I am hoping for a better nights sleep.

    @SheilaBoneham - I know as a child I did have the vaccination (we had all the childhood ones) & I'm sure DS would have had it too so not really sure why she suffered !?

    This might be a long shot, but do you take blood pressure medication/ACE inhibitors? I tried one that made me cough at night (evidently a fairly common side effect). My apologies if I missed something in the recent messages that explained what’s going with you. Sorry to hear! It’s so disruptive to sleep!