And how do I fix it because it's driving me mad.
I have had a cough for about a month. For the first 3 weeks or so I was coughing up green slime and feeling generally rotten but now it's just a mild chesty cough with an annoying tickly cough that keeps coming and going.
I've had asthma for 30 years and it was bad when I was a child/teen but it's been very mild for the past 15 years or so. When I started with this cough I upped my steroid inhaler dose as I usually do and I kept increasing the dose until I was taking the same dose that I was taking when I was a teenager (600 beclamethasone daily instead of the 100 I normally take these days). It has helped although I still end up needing 8-12 puffs of ventolin every day. Other things that have helped are hot drinks and breathing through my nose instead of my mouth.
I'm wondering if this is my asthma playing up all of a sudden, covid (unlikely as I haven't been anywhere and nobody in our house has any symptoms) or something else.
I know I should go to the gp but I have ptsd so I try and avoid drs/hospitals unless my head is hanging off.