Chesty cough for 6 weeks

[ToddlerTamerMumma]

Title says it all really...

I've been suffering from a productive (ew..phlegm) chesty cough for over 6 weeks now. I went to the GP about 4 weeks ago and was given a 5 day course of Amoxicilin and told it could be a small chest infection. I felt the coughing reduced a bit but it was by no means cleared up. I'm coughing up much less crap these days but the cough and weird feeling in my chest still remains

I find it's worse in the morning, and then random times of day I can have a sudden breathlessness episode (where its hard to speak a full sentence) and feel the need to cough/that my chest is kind of tight and burning. Other times I feel totally normal!

Do you think there's anything else going on? My OH has asthma and said the tight breathless need-to-cough feeling is kind of how he experiences his asthma when it's bad. I've no experience of these kind of illnesess myself so not sure if chest infections routinely take this long to clear?

They can, and particularly if you're worried about something unresolved in your life. Can you think of anything that is bothering you and making you feel as though the axe could fall, a situation or outcome where you feel you don't have much control over how it will go? Recovering from bronchitis can be harder if there's anxiety-provoking life issues running in the background. And if that 's the case, do what you can to process your fears and worries rather than staying stuck in them. You may well then notice that your chest clears and the breathlessness goes away. Sometimes just reviewing our perspective on an issue that's affecting us deeply can bring recovery from persistent chest problems.

I realise that might sound a bit wacky, and I don't wish to suggest that what you're going through with your health is psychosomatic. It's very real, which is why it might respond to a decisive shift in another area of your reality.

Please take this with a pinch of salt if it doesn't connect for you.

@reenchantmentforeverydaylife - That's actually a really interesting take on this. I have actually been under some incredible stress recently with home improvements on-going (quite disruptive ones!) and work stress along with general parenting life being non-stop I realise now that I've actually not had any time whatsoever to just sit down for a few days and rest for a bit. I'm going to aim to relax a little each day and pick my old daily yoga habit back up, as I definitely think you may be on to something there!