To ask if it’s normal to feel like you have a brick on your chest with a cough?!

[Mar124]

As above!! I’ve barely any other symptoms but a bad cough. I feel like my chest is heavy it feels like a brick is pressing it down, or there’s some kind of barrier. I don’t know how to explain it. Not short of breath but a barrier to breathing. The fact I’m not actually sick, means I don’t want to go to the doctor as it must be minor with no temp, or other illness symptoms. Could it still be a chest infection with just what I’ve described?

Sometimes, yes. Depends tbh. It’s not unusual though.

Most people have a feeling of chest tightness with a dry cough. You may feel a squeezing sensation in the chest or pressure, like there's a weight on your chest

OP, don’t try to guess. I’d ring your GP or 111 to get professional advice.

Yes it could be a chest infection

The only times I had this feeling was when I had covid.

When I had whooping cough I started off with no other symptoms, no raised temperature etc, just a really bad cough, particularly at night.

Yes, I had this feeling with the virus/chest infection I just had. I did also get the other symptoms of full body aches, fatigue, hot and cold temperature, etc and of course the incessant coughing.

Sounds like covid

That was the main symptom when I had Covid.

I feel like that with pretty much every cough I get. I'm asthmatic so pretty much all of my coughs become a chest infection.

Sounds like a chest infection to me and you need to be seen as you may need antibiotics. Sometimes non asthmatics can benefit from a temporary inhaler in these circumstances too.