So basically I've been coughing now for four weeks. It very quickly became a horrible nutty green phlegm chesty cough and I got no sleep for a couple of weeks and had to buy tena lady for the first time in my life! I became really wheezy (as I usually do when I get a cough) so the nurse practitioner at my surgery prescribed me an inhaler (again, as they usually do). No sign of a chest infection.
So fast forward to today (sorry for rambling and tmi!). I'm still having broken nights perhaps every other night or so, still need the tena lady and still occasionally using the inhaler, but now the cough is more like the most unbearable tickly throat ever. I feel the tickle suddenly come on and then it's like my throat constricts like something's gripping it and I cough uncontrollably. Sometimes it makes me do massive sneezes and my eyes water like mad. It many ways it's so much worse than the hacking chesty cough as its sudden and violent (the tena lady essential!!).
I've never had a cough like this before. I'm exhausted and aching like billy-o after four weeks of it. Do I need to go back to the docs?