Cough!!!

[Klfhl]

Just a query: I have had a cough for over 10 weeks now...GP said nothing I. Chest so may be sinuses

, have taken my steroid meds now for 5 weeks and couch still here and seems to be more often than previously..... I take pregablin, citalopram and co codamol and have queried if meds are cause!!!! Unfortunately not even the salbutamol inhaler makes breathing easier after coughing bout and fed up sounding like I'm a smoker every day" can anyone shed some light on this or do others also find they have similar annoying coughs? Thanks Y xxxxxxx

[Regnofibro1]

I had a allergy test done and found out what I was allergic too. My cough went on for nearly a year. Specialists said it could very well be allergies. I took shots for them for about a year. I don't cough like that anymore and I am a smoker( well e-cig). Maybe this info helps a little.

[Klfhl in reply to Regnofibro1]

This does help as I do have hayfever and normally my antihistamine works well but maybe I'm used to it now!! Thanks very much xx

[Hidden]

Please go back to your GP. They say if you have a cough for over 3 weeks, get it checked out.

There is obviously something not quite right here. If you are not happy with your current GP, then see another if you can to get proper answers. It may well be a allergy as klfh1 suggested.

Pls let us know how you get on xxxxx

[Klfhl in reply to Hidden]

Thanks I was arming myself with info as you have to wait for docs appointment and earliest they have is 01 July xx just want to go prepared as a lot of you on here are long time sufferers and have an encyclopaedia of information is genuinely trust lol xxx thanks all for taking few mins to reply xx

[Hidden in reply to Klfhl]

We truly care my friend xxx

[Klfhl]

I had a sinus flare up and I have hayfever so steroid is for sinuses.... Inhaler is to help as breathing affected due to sinuses running down back throat. X

[TheAuthor]

I am so genuinely sorry to read that and I sincerely hope that you can find some resolution and relief to this issue. I have both Asthma and COPD, and a correlated airway so I am prescribed 10mg of steroids (Prednisolone) daily along with my Ventolin, Atrevent and Symbicort inhalers; yet I still have a persistent cough. I also have a C-PAP Machine and a Nebuliser either side of my bed.

I would definitely get this checked out just to have other illnesses ruled out of the equation. I want to sincerely wish you all the best of luck.

All my hopes and dreams for you

Ken

[Sewnsew]

Just looked up pregabalin on medicines.org

Respiratory side effects or pregabalin

Dyspnoea (breathlessness) epistaxis (nose bleeds), cough, nasal congestion, rhinitis, snoring, nasal dryness

Pulmonary oedema , throat tightness

[Klfhl in reply to Sewnsew]

Sounds like this May be my cause thanks xx

[Sewnsew]

Also Citalopram

Respiratory side effects

Yawning, rhinitis, sinusitis

Rare, coughing

Makes you think!

[maggi999]

Just a thought - lots of fibromites have acid reflux at night. This can give you a sore throat and a cough. Ask your GP to consider giving you a PPI medication like omeprazole for a few weeks xx

[Klfhl]

Avamys, fluticasone furoate is name of spray xxxx

[Redhots7]

Cough is not part of Fibro . Ask your doc to do X-Ray of lungs. When you are a Fibro patient, sometimes that is all they see . I almost died last year because my doc thought another pain and breathing difficulties were just

more Fibro . The next day I was in ER with pneumonia and 2 blood clots in my lungs . Simple x-rat would have shown .

[Klfhl in reply to Redhots7]

Going for x ray tomorrow she don't think cough to do with meds but has no clue what it is thinking asthma clinic also and referral back to ENT also thanks all xxx

[Hidden]

I hop e you get it sorted.i had my cough fro 2 years and like you Gp said "chest is fine"but considered nothing else.