To want to stop coughing to sleep

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I have had a cold and then a cough for about three weeks. Have been awake since midnight with a cough. Apart from a sharp pain under the boob feel well and have been eating. Would it b unreasonable to work rom home to have a couple more hours sleep before work?fWould i

If you can, why not! I would. I hope you feel better soon.

I have a couple of things on that i should be in the office for. Due to half term team members are on leave andmy manager does not like too many people working from home.

Can you dial into the meetings or attend them by Skype or similar?

You need some Benilyn, the drowsy stuff for tonight. Ensures you get a good nights sleep despite the coughing.

Was not able to dial in as my mannager wanted the team in.

Cdespite taking boots cold and flu nighttime really cant sleep as chest really crackley and cant get comfortable.

Please see your GP. Sooner rather than later.

I had a niggling cough on and off for a few weeks, which strengthened to a full week of coughing that got worse at night. Nothing else at all was wrong. I bought over the counter remedies; first for a dry cough then for a chesty cough when it became a bit more congested for that week straight.

About 2 weeks ago I had an awful night where I actually "hurt myself" with coughing. Same as you, under the boob, so I went to the doctor to ask about antibiotics. He was immediately concerned about heart attack (!!!) because I was presenting with chest pain and had pain when deep breathing (turns out I was pretty much limiting myself to shallow breaths). Luckily he could rule out heart due to having an ECG machine at the GP surgery.

He then immediately suspected pneumonia. Yep, proper lung damaging pneumonia. He listened and said there was something on the lungs. He prescribed strong antibiotics and ibuprofen and sent me off immediately for blood tests and chest x-ray. I was completely flabbergasted!!

Luckily I didn't have pneumonia, just pleurisy. Yay!

But if you do have pneumonia they have monitor with follow up chest x-rays to make sure it's completely cleared. A friend of mine had similar at the same time. She just felt a bit more lethargic than me... she DID have pneumonia!

About 20 years ago, I was awake all night coughing. The problems really start, with tickly coughs, once it becomes inflamed and raw.

Once I feel a tickly cough coming on, instead of coughing, I surpress it and I have a sip of ice cold water, I haven't been kept awake with a cough ever since.

Chesty coughs, where you need to move gunk off your chest, are a different matter. I'm no medic, but this works for me.