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AIBU?

To be actually sitting here crying over this coughbecause I can't DO anything for it due to being an incubator?

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missmakesstuff · 31/03/2015 01:37

And think that someone, somewhere, should do some bloody testing on drugs so I can get something better than 'simple fucking linctus' and paracetamol....

I'm 41 weeks pregnant and since dh borough a cold home last week have had a cough for over a week. So fed up, couldn't sleep till at least midnight, then awake again half an hour ago, woken myself up by wetting myself. Lovely.

Have tried everything, have inhaled steam, a vaporizer with menthol, I stink of tiger balm, I have drunk my own body weight not insubstantial in honey and lemon, and I have now just bloody had it.

I steamy to take a luck off good cough medicine that will knock me out for long enough so I can sleep for the first time in a week and not wake up every morning with false contractions because my coughing has caused the muscles in my stomach to hurt so much I'm convinced baby might actually make an appearance this year.

But if I go to the gp or boots, all get is the head tipped to the side 'sorry, we can't give you anything...have you tried honey and lemon with whisky?

Aaargh! Of course dh, the Tucker, has Nora worded comfort and just pretends I'm not keeping him awake. He had a cough for one night and now is fine again. Because he doesn't have a person compressing his lungs to half their size

Is it too much to ask that someone could just give pregnant women actual hard facts about what is actually in the good drugs and why we can't have them so we cam make a bloody choice ourselves?

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Amy106 · 31/03/2015 01:43

YANBU at all. Very sorry to hear you are so sick. Flowers

missmakesstuff · 31/03/2015 01:46

I just want to take a good cough medicine, for fucks sake I hate auto correct on my phone.

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missmakesstuff · 31/03/2015 01:49

Think is, I know in the grand scheme of things I'm very lucky..happy baby, everything going fine, not like I have to do anything tomorrow but take dd to school and nod and smile and say yes, still pregnant, not long now
but I'm just so miserable. Why oh why would a baby want to stay in there with this going on!? It's loud out here, it must be ridiculous in there!

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nocoolnamesleft · 31/03/2015 01:55

As far as I can tell, there aren't any good cough medicines. (Okay, some of the stronger opiates can suppress cough, but no way you'd want to risk that)

UghReally · 31/03/2015 02:00

Corvonia (Sp?) always works for me but im not sure if it contains anything pregnant women cant have??

missmakesstuff · 31/03/2015 02:03

No, I know... But I get coughs a lot, any time I get a cold it's a cough within a day and no other symptoms, usually lasting at least two weeks. There are some I've found that at least give some relief at night, even just knocking me out enough to sleep and cough but just keep dh awake

Or I could take ibuprofen, which does the job, but again, can't take it. I've been taking co-codamol for rib pain, not helped by this cough, but gp now advised I shouldn't as could make baby sleepy. Last thing I want as he doesn't seem bothered about going anywhere fast as it is So that's out.

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Incapinka · 31/03/2015 02:07

Feeling your pain although I am not pregnant. Have had a bloody awful cough for last 3 weeks and can safely say that you are not missing out on any of the cough medicines I have tried. They taste awful and they don't bloody work. Have coughed so hard I am surprised that I haven't (yet) coughed up a lung, perforated an ear drum or coughed out a prolapse. Good luck OP. hope the coughing encourages baby to shoot out in a pain free delivery!

missmakesstuff · 31/03/2015 02:07

I have covonia cheery, it's got levomenthol, as far as I can work out the liquorice squall extract and other thing in it are pretty harmless. Thing that annoys me is not the gp or pharmacy would reccommend it, even though it just says check with gp or pharmacist...

So I googled and bought it in a supermarket. Does fuck all though.

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missmakesstuff · 31/03/2015 02:09

Yes, maybe inca, it's got to be doing something?!
my head feels awful, like my brain is actually beginning to rattle around in there. I'm also fed up of the retching...I sound like I smoke 40 a day!

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Providore · 31/03/2015 02:11

I had a horrific cough when pregnant. Like you, I actually cried in the middle of the (sleepless!) night. The next day I went from pharmacy to pharmacy; all just shook their heads at me until one elderly pharmacist told me to go across the road to the homeopathic pharmacy. I spent a few minutes describing the cough to a homeopath, she gave me a remedy, I took a dose that evening - and never coughed again. Amazing!

missmakesstuff · 31/03/2015 02:11

Covonia chesty. Again, stupid bloody phone. That's another aibu. Chesty is a word, why change it to bloody cheery?! Do I sound cheery? Do I? Bloody useless phone.

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missmakesstuff · 31/03/2015 02:12

Providore I'm willing to try anything, do you know what it was called?

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Incapinka · 31/03/2015 02:13

You really do have my sympathy. This lurgy is the lurgy which keeps on giving. Just when I think it is on the way out, it returns with venom! Hope you don't have to wait too much longer before you meet your little one -can take ibuprofen-

Providore · 31/03/2015 02:17

The remedy depends on the specifics of the cough. It was Ainsworths in Marylebone - if you call them in the morning they'll ask you a few questions and can post a remedy out to you straight away if you can't get it locally. I know lots on MN disapprove of any positive mention of homeopathy on here, but hey, it can't hurt to try it and honestly, what I experienced was nothing short of miraculous.

Feckeggblue · 31/03/2015 02:18

I'd take anything, you're 41 weeks, baby is fully formed and ready to go. Can you lie to the pharmacist and say it's for someone else? Or GP to check it's not a chest infection? Sounds v nasty

beastling · 31/03/2015 02:23

Oh you poor thing. I got a cough at about 16 weeks that came back 4 times (am now 34 weeks). Complete with coughing fits til I puked and pishing myself all the time. I eventually got an inhaler with a spacer that seemed to help a little- could you request one of those? My total sympathies on the not being taken seriously as you are pg-also had a hideous sinus infection that was making me so fucking miserable- after weeks of steaming my head on medical I went back to the doctors and only then did someone look to see how bad it was. Pretty bad it turned out- had antibiotics for that one eventually Hmm

missmakesstuff · 31/03/2015 02:29

Thanks providore, might try that tomorrow. I don't care if it's a placebo, if it works.

I had considered just getting some night nurse or robutussin as that's worked before feck even just one night of sleep would be something. Maybe I'll see if it's not better tomorrow. Gp said chest fine, I went because I'd had enough of the pain in my ribs last Friday. No better now!

I just want this baby out...I can't see how I will cope in labour like this...but once that's all over then there's breastfeeding, no drugs for a good while yet! There's always wine though

I'm fearing going into labour, not coping cause of lack of sleep and having a c section (vbac and aiming to stay at home) then having a cough and stitches..puts the fear up me, the thought of coping with that. how ridiculous is that?! But actually so miserable now all my brain is doing is running away with me.

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missmakesstuff · 31/03/2015 02:34

. Just get so fed uproar no-one is even willing to look stuff up to say what it will do so we can weigh up the pros and cons, especially at a late stage...its just, no, you are pregnant, you can't have anything.
No weighing up the fact that the downsides of being ill are possibly going to do more harm than the remedy.
Antibiotics is the other thing, I know the risk is I will get thrush, and don't want to give them to baby this late on as they could affect him, but the go was happy to hand those out if I'd wanted them! ( I know it wouldn't make any difference though).
have heard that an inhaler can help, had one as a child. Maybe I need to get my chest looked at after baby is here, this is the second cough in just over a month.

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catellington · 31/03/2015 02:36

I'm 39 weeks and am just getting over this cough cold thing. I don't find much helps normally, I have halls sootherscand that's it really. I also hear starburst are quite good for a cough!

My issue is that with the heartburn I struggle to drink much but have to with the cough or I wake up with desert mouth. So I then gave to have masses of Rennies to cope with the heartburn!

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missmakesstuff · 31/03/2015 02:41

Thanks all, lots to think about, feeling a bit less hopeless now...off back to bed, to try to sleep before dd is up in 4 hrs..school hols soon, I'm hoping my body is just going to do the whole 'ill holiday thing' a bit early (I'm a teacher, so the talking thing does make sense) and will start off labour at the weekend...when I'm better!

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missmakesstuff · 31/03/2015 02:42

Yes, definitely get your standard issue gaviscon cat!

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DelphiniumBlue · 31/03/2015 02:52

Ginger works really well for coughs. Chop up raw ginger, put in a flask with Honey, sugar or anything else you fancy, let it seep, keep on sipping.regularly.
Hope you feel better qqickly

catellington · 31/03/2015 03:00

Nah gaviscon makes me heave. I love my orange flavoured rennies! Like the sound of delphiniums ginger concoction might try that.

night night and hope you feel better soon! I had exactly the same type of thing at the same stage last time, the symptoms did seem to miraculously disappear when I was in labour......

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