Morning folks, hope you are all doing ok and looking forward to some warmer weather,
I have posted about my cough before but at the moment I am feeling really down and unsure what to do. I sleep well all night but every morning I spend an hour coughing up sputum before my lungs feel clearer and not wheezy. It is not a nice cough and I do worry what it is doing to my already damaged lungs. I know how to do the coughs with the abc cycle but sometimes I just cough, I take bevispi, salbutamol and carbocysteine tablets , and try and walk a mile daily. I do my housework as normal although maybe a little slower. Sometimes I cough so much I get a pain across my back/shoulders. I am so frustrated, I have tried everything . I use an air physio daily, steam inhalations before bed and even bought some cough medicine with gualfasin (cant spell) to smooth my chest. Basically how on earth can I improve this cough without it being a daily morning nightmare . Could it be the inhaler needs changing ? Please help me if you can suggest anything, xx
do you have chronic bronchitis/emphysema? I have quite a few health problems and this coughing is pushing me to the limit, Thank you so much for replying x
Spirometry and COPD/Emphysema. 
COPD -- coughing-up
Emphysema 
Emphysema
emphysema 
Hi. I have copd but only minimal emphysema changes. The intractable cough was one of my worst symptoms untill palliative care suggested a low dose of oxycode. (They suggested morphine first but I'm allergic.) It has really helped.
*OXYCODONE * sorry
Thank you for replying. I am willing to try anything as it seems to be getting so much worse. I have a docs appt on Friday but somehow doubt this will give me any help. I am wondering if the rescue pack of steroids would help. Will see what Friday brings,
I hope you can find some relief. Sadly very few gps truly understand lung diseases so requests for meds confuses them! (See my posts about my gp practice)