Ongoing cough after virus

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About 6/7 weeks ago I started with a sore throat, cough and feeling of a stuffy nose, symptoms eased after a few days but coughing continued.
Got to week five of still having coughing fits every day, clearing throat, stuffy nose , been told my voice sounds different at times.
Saw doctor who said chest clear but gave me antibiotics to take as it's been going's on for 6/7 weeks now, antibiotics not making much of a difference to the cough.
I have asthma which is mild never had any major problems and chest is not wheezing doctor said but my daughter has told me 3 nights over the last few weeks she heard me wheezing whilst asleep..I didn't feel wheezy when I woke?
Anyway after my long spiel!! I'm wondering if anyone has experienced this ongoing coughing 6/7 weeks or more after getting a virus lately?
All covid tests negative TIA

Given you have asthma, it's more than likely the virus has triggered your asthma -cough is a symptom of asthma as well as wheeze and being worse at night is classic asthma.

Are you following your asthma plan? (and if you don't have one you should get one)
Has taking your reliever inhaler - usually blue - helped?

What do you take for your asthma?

If you have a brown x2 daily inhaler did you double it? Check your plan. That's usually the case.

I have vary rarely wheezed with my asthma, it's all coughing for me.

Me neither @WarriorN If I'm wheezing that really bad. Coughing is normal and any viral infection will mean loads of reliever and preventer, plus possibly steroids.

I suspect you didn't need antibiotics but did need more asthma treatment.

Another surprised that your doctor doesn’t know about cough variant asthma.

Any respiratory virus usually ends with a lingering bad cough for weeks for me. Ventolin inhalers used to help but not so much anymore. It was very awkward when I went back to work after Covid and I even had one coworker make a complaint about me!

Thanks for replies sorry for being late back to the thread
I saw a different doctor today and again my chest is clear no infection no wheezing but cough still ongoing! The doctor heard me coughing and throat clearing whilst waiting to be seen and said it was a dry cough but as it's gone on so long he wants to refer me for a chest X-ray.
He also thinks it could be silent reflux causing it so wants me to try a months worth of PPI's to see how I get on.
I'm getting a little bit worried now but I'm trying to reassure myself that I had a chest X-ray 18 months ago that showed nothing but infection as I had a chest infection at that time.
He also prescribed a brown preventer inhaler to take to see if it's any help? but said it can cause oral and oesophageal thrush ( have had oesophageal thrush from inhalers before so feeling a bit afraid I'll get it again it was a nightmare to get rid of)

Brown inhaler is going up on your asthma plan so this is what we thought was likely.

They can all cause thrush as they are steroids, you have been unlucky before.

If you have a standard inhaler, using it through a spacer reduces your risk of thrush, plus rinsing your mouth with water after you use it. Ask your GP for a spacer if you haven't got one.

Have you had your inhaler technique checked recently? Good inhaler technique also reduces the risk of thrush. This is all stuff the practice asthma nurse can do.

It sounds like your asthma has worsened which it can do with age or sometimes a virus or hormonal changes.

Rinse your mouth thoroughly after you take your inhaler and you should be fine. Eat plain natural yogurt.

Ask the Gp surgery if they have an asthma nurse - gps often delegate managing asthma to a nurse these days. Theyll be able to give more guidance and monitoring. You should be going back in a couple of weeks and be being given an asthma plan.

I would also call asthma U.K. as I don't think you've been given the best guidance. Ideally you could also be tracking your peak flow daily to see the difference the inhaler is making - it should take just under 2 weeks. (They will probably say you should have been given oral steroids as well.)

I would take your blue inhaler every 4 hours and extra if you are coughing a lot at the moment. If tracking peak flow though, do blue afterwards. When the brown inhaler is working well you shouldn't need to use it.

I was late diagnosed around 40 but I think I'd had it mildly my whole life. Brown worked well for me for a few years but after my second child I needed Fostair which is a mixed inhaler. I've just moved to MART regime. (I swear hrt has improved my asthma!)

My asthma has got worse - it's got steadily worse since I had Covid and after speaking to a covid clinic nurse she more or less confirmed it's Long Covid.

I'm now on Fostair and have been prescribed Montukast too.

The nurse also suggested taking Allieve which is a antihistamine.

It's slowly improving