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Chronic Cough 4 years now, Desperate for help. Seeking at all forums as no one knows.
DESPERATELY in need of HELP! PLEASE - I have a chronic cough (4 years now)I had CT Scans of sinus, throat, had Bravo Ph done twice, numerous Allergy tests, Asthma tests, chest X-ray, antibiotics, different Acid Reflux medications for months at a time. All test negative. No one can figure out why I cough.
**I cough only when upright! After every meal and out of the blues with or without liquids, just anytime. I do have quiet moments that will last for hours but the my coughing fit out of the blues. The coughing fits last about an hour, cough starts off dry then sometimes movement after coughing for 30 min & sometimes cough little stuff (white). I sleep quite well, no coughing, no disturbance, perfect night sleep. Numerous ENT, Gas, lung doctors last 4 years with no help. Allerx & Ah Chew helps calm it down but not cure or take away completely. No other medication helps. NONE. HELP SOMEBODY. No doctors here has helped, St Johns, UCLA, Cedars. Cough meds do not help, I need a cure to live a normal life. THANK YOU!!! Numberous meds from Antibiotics, allergy pills Acid Refulx and nothing helps. thank you. My medical file is quite extensive, I have 1/2 of them and no can help.
**I cough only when upright! After every meal and out of the blues with or without liquids, just anytime. I do have quiet moments that will last for hours but the my coughing fit out of the blues. The coughing fits last about an hour, cough starts off dry then sometimes movement after coughing for 30 min & sometimes cough little stuff (white). I sleep quite well, no coughing, no disturbance, perfect night sleep. Numerous ENT, Gas, lung doctors last 4 years with no help. Allerx & Ah Chew helps calm it down but not cure or take away completely. No other medication helps. NONE. HELP SOMEBODY. No doctors here has helped, St Johns, UCLA, Cedars. Cough meds do not help, I need a cure to live a normal life. THANK YOU!!! Numberous meds from Antibiotics, allergy pills Acid Refulx and nothing helps. thank you. My medical file is quite extensive, I have 1/2 of them and no can help.
I too have had a chronic cough for several years and laryngitus for two years now that started after a cold but never went away. The Dr's don't seem to care enough to do anything about it. I am only 38. I was put on allergy meds but thats wasn't it. I was put on heartburn medicine and that wasn't it. I went to 3 different Dr's. They never sent me to a specialist or ordered any tests. I gave up even asking about it anymore. I just go around sounding like a frog and no body can understand me.And my coughing can be so bad I throw up. Oh well. Maybe some day I will find a decent Dr. Right now I am dealing with other health problems that are more of a concern for me. I am worried but what do you do. It sounds like you have at least had some tests done and thats good. One thing I found out that helped my coughing for a little while was the high blood pressure medicine I was on. It gives you a bad dry cough and feels like something is in your throat. They took me off and it was better until they put me on another one. Then I started coughing bad again. So, I will have to bring this up again to him. Do you take any other meds? Other meds can do it too. I hope you find some help.
Hello there - what I'm about to tell you literally transformed our family's life. My wife has had a chronic cough for 10 years now. It started once she got pregnant with our first child. At first the Doctors thought she was sick and they gave her the normal treatments. What transpired over the course of a decade was nothing short of hellacious.
Her cough was so bad - and it was constant - that it affected every part of her life. From social, to business, to family life. It was a cough that was there morning, all day, and night. When she would get on an airplane (which is frequent in her line of work) people would look at her as if she had a deadly illness. When she would go to school to pick up the kids the other parents would notice that she was always "sick".
Over the course of 10 years we saw every type of specialist. First we started with our general practitioner, then we moved on to a pulmonologist. After that we saw ENTs (ear nose and throat), followed by allergists. Then we'd get so frustrated when nothing would work that we'd quit awhile and start all over again. Wherever we went the answer was always the same. They diagnosed her with asthma or even "cough variant asthma" and would give her all different type of meds to treat it. We went to a "cough specialist" in a far away city and he diagnosed her with post nasal drip.
Meds typically included a bronchodilator, inhaled steroids, steroid nasal spray, prednisone (systemic steroids), nebulizers, etc. None of the medicine helped. None. We had mold tests done in the home and everything came back normal.
An important note, which I didn't realize was important over the years is that she had the cough all year round. And it was there wherever our travels took us. It didn't matter if she was in the northeast, southeast (where we live), Canada, Europe, Mexico, etc.
Fast forward - recently our 9 year old daughter came down with pneumonia twice within 7 weeks. This really got the attention of our daughter's pediatrician. She sat down with us and my wife's chronic cough came up (obviously). When she heard about that she instantly knew and it all made sense. The pediatrician has 2 kids that had chronic asthma which really upset the doctor since it was her own kids which she cured.
Here's the solution - she told us that we needed to completely cut out ALL dairy and wheat from our diet and go 100% "paleo". Listen - if you are as desperate as we were please listen. Paleo basically means only meats, fruits, and veggies. No dairy and no wheat. What we learned from her was that dairy and wheat are the two main food allergens and often simply present as a cough or asthma. When our doctor cut out dairy from her kids lives their asthma was cured.
We were reluctant but decided it couldn't hurt to give it a try. That night I got my wife a chicken salad - no dressing. The next morning she was slightly better. I decided I'd keep giving it a chance. We went all in on the paleo plan religiously with absolutely no dairy and wheat. Within about a week her cough was about 70% better. Now we are a few weeks in and it's about 95% gone. Gone meaning on Thanksgiving day she didn't cough a single time whereas before it'd be every 5 minutes and violent loud coughing.
Ironically, my brother had been diagnosed with "asthma" 3 years ago. He got all of the inhalers, steroids, etc. When I called him to tell him about what the pediatrician told us he was skeptical but he tried it. He used to use his inhaler for his chronic cough many, many times each day. Since going off of dairy he hasn't used the medicine a single time. To test the dairy theory after being clear for a couple of weeks he decided to have as much dairy as he wanted for one day (milk, cheese, pies, etc). His cough got so bad after that and for the next two days. After another week of being clear my brother then decided to try just a tablespoon of sour cream with a meal. Same thing - coughing fits. Obviously now he won't touch dairy.
I hope you take this note seriously as I see in the previous thread that a few people mentioned dairy but I thought that this full perspective might help. And as for my daughter that had pneumonia - she's fine now and dairy free. Since eliminating dairy she's been allergy and congestion free as well.
Remember the two main culprits are dairy and wheat in that order. Others have egg allergies that can cause the same problems.
Please try this as it broke my heart to read that you were having the same struggle that our family has had. What you have to remember is that doctors treat the symptoms and most often don't try to find out why you cough. Sure - you might have post nasal drip or asthma that causes you to cough. But both of those conditions are simply an inflammation caused by an irritant. Most likely something that you are eating.
Best of luck and let me know how you do.
Her cough was so bad - and it was constant - that it affected every part of her life. From social, to business, to family life. It was a cough that was there morning, all day, and night. When she would get on an airplane (which is frequent in her line of work) people would look at her as if she had a deadly illness. When she would go to school to pick up the kids the other parents would notice that she was always "sick".
Over the course of 10 years we saw every type of specialist. First we started with our general practitioner, then we moved on to a pulmonologist. After that we saw ENTs (ear nose and throat), followed by allergists. Then we'd get so frustrated when nothing would work that we'd quit awhile and start all over again. Wherever we went the answer was always the same. They diagnosed her with asthma or even "cough variant asthma" and would give her all different type of meds to treat it. We went to a "cough specialist" in a far away city and he diagnosed her with post nasal drip.
Meds typically included a bronchodilator, inhaled steroids, steroid nasal spray, prednisone (systemic steroids), nebulizers, etc. None of the medicine helped. None. We had mold tests done in the home and everything came back normal.
An important note, which I didn't realize was important over the years is that she had the cough all year round. And it was there wherever our travels took us. It didn't matter if she was in the northeast, southeast (where we live), Canada, Europe, Mexico, etc.
Fast forward - recently our 9 year old daughter came down with pneumonia twice within 7 weeks. This really got the attention of our daughter's pediatrician. She sat down with us and my wife's chronic cough came up (obviously). When she heard about that she instantly knew and it all made sense. The pediatrician has 2 kids that had chronic asthma which really upset the doctor since it was her own kids which she cured.
Here's the solution - she told us that we needed to completely cut out ALL dairy and wheat from our diet and go 100% "paleo". Listen - if you are as desperate as we were please listen. Paleo basically means only meats, fruits, and veggies. No dairy and no wheat. What we learned from her was that dairy and wheat are the two main food allergens and often simply present as a cough or asthma. When our doctor cut out dairy from her kids lives their asthma was cured.
We were reluctant but decided it couldn't hurt to give it a try. That night I got my wife a chicken salad - no dressing. The next morning she was slightly better. I decided I'd keep giving it a chance. We went all in on the paleo plan religiously with absolutely no dairy and wheat. Within about a week her cough was about 70% better. Now we are a few weeks in and it's about 95% gone. Gone meaning on Thanksgiving day she didn't cough a single time whereas before it'd be every 5 minutes and violent loud coughing.
Ironically, my brother had been diagnosed with "asthma" 3 years ago. He got all of the inhalers, steroids, etc. When I called him to tell him about what the pediatrician told us he was skeptical but he tried it. He used to use his inhaler for his chronic cough many, many times each day. Since going off of dairy he hasn't used the medicine a single time. To test the dairy theory after being clear for a couple of weeks he decided to have as much dairy as he wanted for one day (milk, cheese, pies, etc). His cough got so bad after that and for the next two days. After another week of being clear my brother then decided to try just a tablespoon of sour cream with a meal. Same thing - coughing fits. Obviously now he won't touch dairy.
I hope you take this note seriously as I see in the previous thread that a few people mentioned dairy but I thought that this full perspective might help. And as for my daughter that had pneumonia - she's fine now and dairy free. Since eliminating dairy she's been allergy and congestion free as well.
Remember the two main culprits are dairy and wheat in that order. Others have egg allergies that can cause the same problems.
Please try this as it broke my heart to read that you were having the same struggle that our family has had. What you have to remember is that doctors treat the symptoms and most often don't try to find out why you cough. Sure - you might have post nasal drip or asthma that causes you to cough. But both of those conditions are simply an inflammation caused by an irritant. Most likely something that you are eating.
Best of luck and let me know how you do.
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Hi. Did your wife have a barking cough by any chance. I had pneumonia a year ago and ever since then I have been stuck with a horrible barking cough and have been tested for just about everything as well. Please help me I went from being a healthy, fit, 17 year old athlete to a weak pessimistic 18 year old who ended up deferring college because of this issue. Please I wanna give up
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Could you please help me. I am having same probelm from past 1.5 years :(
Could you please help me. I am having same probelm from past 1.5 years :(
It doesn't seem there is a cure unless it goes away by itself but a cough buddy with the same cough as me is taking Tylenol cold Multi - Symptom for adults caplets. It's red at top and purple in middle and a little yellow in left hand corner. She says it helps about 75% in the control of the cough. It's all I can recommend unless someone contacts me regarding a cure but it helps.
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