Back in I came down with a cold/sinus/hayfever symptoms.
I used to always suffer from sinus infections but not in recent years. Over the past few years if I began to feel unwell, I used to take Garlic and that helped. Unfortunately I live at home and my mother can't stand the smell of garlic and it's been banned from the house. Even with garlic tablets she's claiming to get a smell of garlic from them. (I doubt that one very much. I can't smell garlic from the tablets and I think she was just being overly dramatic).
So anyways back in June I felt these symptoms come on :mucus, watery eyes, cough. I began to drink plenty of fluids. The worst of this was the cough. I was coughing to the point of vomiting and leaking from the bladder. The cough was worse at night and during excercise. I don't have a car and walk and I was slowed down over summer due to coughing fits.
It was early July by the time I got to the doctor. Hayfever was diagnosed. I found the steroids helped and as soon as I stopped them the cough worsened.
I was busy throughout August and it was the end of August by the time I made it back to the doctor. I got antibiotics and an inhaler. She didn't diagnose asthma but she felt I could benefit from an inhaler because of the wheeze.
The cough started to improve and I began sleeping better - the first time all summer.
Unfortunately something happened at work where I was in a room with a blanket that shouldn't have been washed in a machine and I was subjected to a very dusty environment. I began choking on my cough. It took a day or so for things to calm down.
Anyways here I am now about two weeks after that dusty episode and I'm down with a cold. Usually colds don't bother me but this is flooring me. It's the cough that is back again causing havoc.
I'm sick to my back teeth of this cough. I have noticed, definitely stress plays a part in the coughing episodes too. For instance, if there's someone applying pressure on me, etc.