To casually mention to my neighbour about his coughing

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A new neighbour has recently moved into the flat below me. He's about 35. I've noticed that he literally coughs every few mins and unfortunately I can hear it. I was hoping it would be a cold or flu thing he has and that it would eventually stop but it's been like this for a couple weeks.
I will be reading quietly in my bedroom and all of a sudden get startled by his coughing. I'm finding it really triggering and it's irritating me .
It's a really awkward one as coughing is involuntary but that doesn't make it any less annoying for me.
I can't move as I have another year left on my lease. I've bought noise cancelling ear plugs from Amazon.
Would it be really bad if next time I get talking to him ,I asked if he is ok, as I notice he has been coughing quite a lot? Hoping that this will maybe make him try and be a bit quieter or something.
Or do I just learn to live with this.

I have a horrible cough right now. Bouts where I just cannot catch a breath and fear that I’m about so simultaneously vomit and wet myself. There is no possibility of me being quieter or coughing less other than by dying (which, along with expelling part of a lung seems quite possible). I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, but I’d happily breathe on the OP if she came round to complain. I’m sure my family is fed up of me but they are nowhere near as fed up as I am. If the OP can tolerate her family coughing then it is not misophonia it’s a simple lack of empathy.

I work with someone like this and it’s really annoying, I hadn’t actually thought about it being a tic but makes perfect sense now

The selfish bastard should drive to an empty field to cough, how fucking dare he do it in his own home!

Perhaps you can increase your soundproofing, add a thick rug, carpet layers on the floor and get some softer furnishings to dampen the sound out a little. And also offer some healthy soup.

This is the same category as complaining about a crying baby! First, what do you expect him to do? Second, he'll be well aware of it and likely bothered more than you, so telling him will make him even more miserable.

This thread is 10 months old, hopefully he's not still coughing!

Pop a bag of Jakeman's cough sweets through his door.
The yellow ones are nice.

That's not possible and you know it. When I had covid I cought so much and so hard I hurt my back. If my neighbor would have told me to be quite I would have laughed at them

My gosh, you are a selfish person OP

I don’t think you can do much. The headphones are a good idea.

My father in law has had a chronic cough for about 25 years . It is in part habitual . It is worse when he is talking to you in the middle
of monologues . There are also other tics like teeth sucking when speaking.
So many investigations and tratements for catarrh. Finally he has started amitryptiline as he read it could cure a cough and the cough has gone. Just like that. A miracle for the whole
family.

Since it is 10 months later, I hope the neighbour just had a bug.

Please do go, knock on his door and tell him to cough quietly.

He will likely burst out laughing... and then burst out coughing, and with a bit of luck, he'll asphyxiate and allow you some peace.

OP's probably moved and is now the poster complaining about her neighbour's snoring.

Bad idea. Waste of time.
Go detached if you don't want close neighbour noise.

I understand how the poster feels.
We live in a close with a bungalow and it’s garden opposite us, with a couple in their early-mid 50s. It seems like all they do 630am until midnight is sit in their garden and smoke. Like proper chain smoking. How th heck do they afford it?!
I wouldn’t be so bothered about that but with the smoking, but they are coughing constantly with it. They both sound like they are ill with lung conditions which is awful for them, but the smoking clearly impacts.
They are doing something to trigger the coughing that’s the issue and that they do all their smoking and coughing outside their house with their Alsatians barking at them for attention. And it’s been like this since July when they moved in.
I am thinking about complaining to the council of the estate we live in but I know they will say tough shit. My partner and I have to both wear ear plugs. I know it sounds affected, but my life choices aren’t causing them lack of sleep.

I have my child tell come down at night frequently saying he woke up because of Mr and Mrs Coughy. He thinks someone is dying!
We can’t all wear noise cancelling headphones to bed and I think saying that to people who are dealing with this stuff is unrealistic.
My dad has lung issues from chemical work years ago and he has coughing fits, so I get the issues long term illnesses can cause and it’s truly awful for them.
Before this experience I would have thought the OP ott, but having lived through it, it is really distressing.