I'm tired of coughing - it's been two months

[TrogL]

I got a really bad flu two months ago and never really got over it. I've been coughing off and on ever since. Last week I ended up in emerge with pneumonia and they gave me Doxycycline and let me go. Last night I ended up there again and they gave me a Salbutomal inhaler and turned me loose again.

Does this ever end?

[SeattleGirl]

1. That sucks. I have a question for you.

Are you on any kind of medication? The reason I ask is that my BIL had the flu several months ago, but just couldn't get rid of the cough (he doesn't smoke, and isn't around smokers). He went to the doc, and the doc said, oh, it's the meds you are taking for your acid reflux. Doc changed the meds, and poof! The cough was gone.

Another thing it could be is allergies.

[TrogL]

2. I've been wondering about allergies

Everybody's been coughing their guts out and blaming it on "snow mold", but that's all gone now.

However, the office still sounds like a sick ward.

[SeattleGirl]

3. That might be it, then.

I never had allergies until I reached my mid-20's. Now I have them. I cough a lot because of post nasal drip, but the OTC allergy meds I take stop it.

[TrogL]

4. Mine don't

I've tried all the usual stuff and I just end up coughing worse.

[SeattleGirl]

5. Damn.

Maybe you should talk to your doc about it. I know how freakin' irritating, mentally and physically, coughing like that can be.

[CraftyGal]

6. well lets see, TrogL...

shouldn't you be getting bedrest and drink plenty of fluids?:eyes:

I know that the bed rest sems beyond you.:spank: You are at work everday,and continue your other activities. I should know I live with you.:eyes:

Please somone help me with this...lol.

[TrogL]

7. Rest is boring

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Besides, you should see the neat stuff I'm coughing up.

[TrogL]

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[SeattleGirl]

8. Hey, a newbie!!!! Welcome to DU, CraftyGal!

:hi:

[CraftyGal]

9. I am not really a newbie...

I am more alurker. TrogL got me join last year. I am not really savy on all the uS politics as I am Canadaian politics. I love what I have been reading and get a chuckles.

I just had to bug TrogL when I saw this thread. Men...sheesh.

Crafty

[SeattleGirl]

11. Well, you are now an "official newbie" as you have joined DU.

I lurked for 2 years before I joined. :hi:

[TrogL]

12. I'm getting her all trained up on conspiracy theories

and DU lingo and traditions

[CraftyGal]

13. TrogL needs to work on his English...

still figuring out everything. No we don't see eye to eye on everything. I vole NDP (New Democratic party) he is a Liberal. I never understood that. My whole family were Liberals, I was the odd woman out.

Crafty

[TrogL]

14. What, the 'trained up' thing? Check this out

http://www.trainupachild.com/

[CraftyGal]

15. Play nicely now...

[TrogL]

16. She hit me

[CraftyGal]

17. You always say that.....

[TrogL]

19. What, you wanna go to bed?

[u4ic]

18. Perhaps it's RSV

A very nasty virus that had higher rates in Edmonton than in previous years.

I know a couple of people who got it, and had to go on antibiotics. Rinse, and repeat. (and in one particular case, repeat yet again).

I heard on cbc radio about this RSV, and how it took, for some, a few months to recover.


I hope the doxy helps you, and you'll be up and at 'em soon!


edit: Respiratory Syncytial Virus

[TrogL]

20. It appears to be a children's disease

I'll bet it mutated.

Certainly some of the symptoms match up.