Horrible relentless hacking cough

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Had this for a few days - doesn’t seem to be getting better. Relentless hacking cough, not coughing anything up but wheezing. Sometimes the cough is so bad I’m almost throwing up. Never experienced a cough like this. I’m basically useless today.

Anyone else had this? Wtf is it?!

Thanks all. Let’s hope it goes soon!

You have my sympathies. I’m also suffering, had a virus and started to feel better but now it’s turned into the most painful cough, my whole chest hurts, lots of gunk and I’m wheezing a bit. It’s giving me a headache and my throat is sore from coughing so much.

Anyone know a magical way to get antibiotics on a weekend without sitting for 5hrs in urgent care?!

The only way I could find to get them quickly is to lie about what you have and buy them online. But I didn't bother in the end.

Ring 111 and get an OOH appointment?

Ibuprofen every 4 hours. It will calm the inflammation.

What ailments can they be prescribed for online? Out of curiosity!

Covid!

When it's viral antibiotics don't help!

@Flyhigher covid test is negative

if you are offered 5 hours go for it and count it as a win! It is more like 25 here....

Yes, we have that dreaded cough in our household. Daughter went down with it first and has suffered the most. At her worst she was awake most of the night, and would have awful coughing fits where she would wake up gasping for breath. Also coughed so much it caused sickness and vomiting. Younger son had the cough but not so bad. We are about 6-7 weeks in now and they both cough a few times per day, but on the whole much better. I then caught the cough and am about 4 weeks in. Only just started to feel better in the last couple of days but still coughing a fair few times per day. Am wondering if it’s the 100 day cough as never had anything that has lasted so long as this.

Look after yourself. I had it at the end of November. GP and OOH service uninterested and unhelpful. I’ve now had it confirmed I have post viral syndrome. I still have coughing fits, pain in the joints and muscles, awful fatigue and nerve damage. Really, really rest, sleep as much as you can and look at nutrition and supplements. I’m living such a limited life just now and really hope I recover fully.

I would try and get some antibiotics if it continues. If it is whooping cough then they are effective in the first 3 weeks only I think. I've had it for13 weeks, the Dr's have thrown everything at it including a chest xray, but to no avail. Its on the way out now I think but seriously, if it carries on for over a week don't delay in pushing for a test and meds, because it's f'ing awful.

What ailments can they be prescribed for online? Out of curiosity!

One pharmacy website would prescribe for an ear infection but not a chest infection. I was rattling to the bottom of my rib cage and coughing up green lumps.

I've been coughing since Xmas. Getting better weekly, as opposed to daily.
Never done it before but got desperate and slept with Neal's Yard version of Vicks rub on my feet under socks.
It helped to reduce the cough!!
When I don't do it, I cough more.
Bloody hate the coughing- never smoked & asthmatic.

I’ve just had it. It started with a sore throat and then went on to the coughing, followed by an awful cold. The coughing was appalling, to the point where I was vomiting as people said. The coughing lasted about three days . I’m over it now but feeling desperately fatigued and woolly headed. I’m worried I have post viral fatigue.
I had the same thing last year and it lasted weeks. I got over it and then it came back.

I've had a cough since December, I've never, ever known anything like this!

I got flu in February and then the cough got even worse after that.

It's this crunchy , loud, wheezing cough that keeps me awake every night. I'm at my wits end.

I got my chest checked just after the flu and it was clear and my oxygen levels were good.

I guess I'm just going to have to ride this one out and hope it doesn't return next winter.

Another vote for considering possible whooping cough (also known as pertussis or the 100 day cough). If it started with symptoms that seemed more like an innocuous virus (sore throat, blocked nose, maybe a bit of sneezing), then developed into a dramatically worsening cough that gets even worse in the evening and all night and is completely uncontrollable and goes on for weeks, then those are all whooping cough symptoms. Adults often don’t whoop with it - children and babies do - but it’s so violent it can crack ribs, burst blood vessels, cause vomiting, a hernia or a prolapse, or even collapse a bit of lung… The childhood vaccines wane rapidly, so you are pretty much unprotected from as early as the age of 10… It’s caused by specific bacteria, but for some reason, according to the advice, antibiotics don’t do a huge amount to relieve the symptoms (nothing at all after 3 weeks), but they do dramatically reduce the amount of time you are infectious to others, so you don’t inflict the disease on other people. As you are thought to be infectious for about 3 weeks after the cough starts, that’s when they offer antibiotics. After that, it will be because you got another infection on top of it from having been so ill…

As the GP service in huge swathes of the country is now so overloaded it is worse than useless (because it gets in the way of people accessing appropriate, or any, attention), there are doubtless large numbers of people infecting large numbers of other people with whooping cough, which is a notifiable disease, without realising.

Just starting week 5 of this here. First 3 weeks were awful. 4th week definite progress but nights still bad. Can't remember a time I wasn't coughing...

I thought it was just me. I have a runny nose, sinusy type headache and a hacking cough. It just doesn't seem to be clearing.

Does anyone else feel tired?

I was exhausted for the whole of February. I do feel fine now but it took until last weekend from the 21st of Jan.

My pharmacist told me it’s whooping cough and adults don’t always have the whoop. He said it’s a notifiable disease so GPs are reluctant to diagnose because they’d have to fill out significant paperwork. I’ve been coughing for about three weeks now and getting slowly worse not better. I’m exhausted because of coughing all night, headaches from coughing, feel like crap. Apparently it can last months.

I had the whoop, and two GP’s refused to swab me on request. Five months later, I’m told I have “post viral syndrome”. I still have coughing fits, sometimes with the whoop.