Coughing and neighbours

[minniebow]

I live in a mid terrace and I swear there must be only a layer of bricks between each house as I can hear what NDN’s are having for tea, how many times they fart (pleasant I know), who their mate slept with etc. There’s zero privacy and both sides claim to have lived here for 10+ years so they should know that.

I’ve not really been sick since I moved in 2 years ago, the odd sniffle here and there. I’ve had the most horrendous flu which I’m thinking might be verging on tonsillitis. I have really bad asmtha and I’ve been having coughing fits for the past 2 days. Nothing helps! I go to sleep at 10pm and wake up at 7am for work, I don’t wake and cough in the night. Yet one NDN has taken it upon themselves to bang on the wall and shout for me to stop coughing, during the day time. Yet I can hear them blow their noses, pissing in the mornings, really everything. I don’t think they realise this and I’m at my wits end. They’re so rude. I could have a serious illness for all they know

next time you hear them farting or blowing their nose shout i can hear you farting/ blowing your nose
they obviously don't realize you can hear them too

Yes, do it back to them.

I would either retaliate in kind, or you could pop a note through their door explaining that you can hear everything from them, and don't appreciate them banging on the wall over the noise of your coughing in the daytime.

Oh I would be going round and very firmly telling them exactly what I thought of their twatty behaviour. And pointing out that you can hear them fart etc.

Oh my god, you have little privacy..

I can't offer any advice except try bronchoscopy pastilles from super drug, they work for all types of coughs and they are non medicinal (they work better than cough medicine for me, so they are my first port of call when I have a cough)...

If you are feeling self conscious about coughing and want to muffle the sound you could cough into a blanket or pillow to.muffle some of the sound (the way that the anti anxiety exercise of screaming into a pillow is supposed to muffle sound)

Hope you feel better soon op

*BRONCHOSTOP pastilles Not bronchoscopy pastilles....damn autocorrect

I have this exact same problem!!

Several months back I had a bad chest infection and would regularly wake up having a coughing fit. I was that self conscious I took myself to the spare room fearing I would wake neighbours who's bedroom joins onto mine.

Low and behold whilst in the spare room having a coughing fit I hear their young dc wake up and start crying. Felt bloody awful.

They've got their own back on me this week. Neighbour must have flu or something and heard her coughing at all times. But she took the biscuit the other night when she was, shall we say, quite poorly at 3am!

It's just one of those things and needs give and take. Luckily they are really nice and they or us have never had any run ins about noise etc.