I don’t know at what point I’d be admitted to hospital with this cough or even how that would help

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I think I have Whooping cough. I’ve had several GP consultations in the last 2 1/2 weeks, including one earlier this week. I always feel a bit of a time waster. The coughing seems to have worsened in the last two days, and my sleep has too. If I go and see the GP again tomorrow I’ll feel a complete time waster. I’ll sit there, probably not coughing, and will be sent home again. My lungs are so uncomfortable I’ve had perhaps 1 hour of sleep so far tonight, despite taking two co-codamol (up until today the codeine in this has helped suppress my cough and helped me sleep, but not tonight). I’m probably not at the point where I’d be admitted to hospital. But I don’t know what they’d do in hospital anyway? The GP gave me a subutimol inhaler which I’ve gone back to using tonight, but it hasn’t eased the cough or discomfort. I’ve had a course of antibiotics. I don’t have any fever. I don’t know how I’m ever going to get better. Please help.

Thanks everyone. Neverdropyourmooncup I’ve come to the same conclusion about codeine and also felt it wasn’t agreeing with me, so stopped it.

My husbands gone out to buy a nebuliser for me, does anyone know if pharmacies or anywhere sell the saline solution - so I could get it today?

Boil the kettle.

Stir in sea salt.

Allow to cool to baby bottle temperature.

Other than that, Neil Med is sold on Amazon.

Exactly what I keep saying “the gift that keeps on giving” The upset stomach past two days really was the cherry on the cakez The shittest start to a new year ever!

That comment above was for @DillDanding

Yes we have this in the house. Awful...started beginning of November for my 11 year old..she is better now. Just an odd cough here and there. I am 3 weeks, maybe 4 behind her and hadn't felt ill really during it all until last week when I was worried I was getting a secondary infection. So...what we have been doing...massive doses of vit c (whooping cough vit c protocol), vit d, zinc, mullein herb, lungwort, marshmallow root. Steaming with eucalyptus and thyme linalool, castor oil packs on chest and back, hot foot soaks with Epsom salts and a thyme foot rub. Homeopathic coccus cacti. Now seem to be at a coughing the sit up phase which my daughter had when we were in holiday which was nice and made it far from relaxing!!! It is like egg white and so difficult to budge. Will post some breathing stuff that may help hold on...

Yes, so if you Google buteyko for asthma this is really useful. Breathing low hands on side ribs, slow and having breath holds can really help. If it is difficult then just hold breath for 2 ...breath in after a hold should be smooth and controlled to be beneficial. Also...there is a sort of assisted cough that can help move it all...fists together at chest and arms by ribs at side, breath in and then pump arms up and down while sort of coughing air out of your mouth maybe 5 or 6 times on one breath. It is called assisted coughing breath and can help loosen. Also thyme....get a plant and make tea with it.

Do you have a spacer for inhaler? Ten puffs into the spacer then six breaths should have similar effect as nebuliser. (Told by 111 doctor)

Thanks everyone for the suggestions.

If you are breathless to this extent you need medical advice.

I think I failed to convey to convey to the doctors how breathless I was. Last week I asked my GP why I couldn’t speak and he said I’d damaged my vocal cords by coughing. I went again to the GP yesterday and said I was too breathless to speak properly (thanks to the posters who helped me understand this). The GP has given me a steroid which I took yesterday with dinner and I feel so much better. The tightness and discomfort in my chest has really eased, my coughing is so much more productive and is generally easier. I feel like a different person (still coughed on and off for much of the night).