Dry cough from tickle in throat

[menundy]

I have had this cough for 4 months now. The dr has changed my diagnosis everytime I go (which is frequent). The cough starts with a tickle in my throat, which makes me cough this loud obnoxious cough that feels and sounds "dry" but produces this sometimes thin, sometimes thick white/clear mucus. This happens all the time, day night whatever. The dr has changed my Bp medicine twice, both times waiting 3+ weeks, then it was antibiotics, then asthma, then allergies, then musenex and chest xrays, bloodwork and others... Has tried numerous cough medicines to help me sleep, which did nothing. This cough is unrelenting and is driving me crazy.I am always tired anymore and I feel like I am getting worse. Please if you have had this problem or know a suggestion let me know I am willing to do anything at this point.

[Iglet]

Just recently went through this. Started with sore throat and cold. Then the dry, hacking cough with little mucus. Laryngitis followed from all the constant coughing, which also disturbed my sleep for days. In desperation, after reading all these posts, I decided to try just gargling with warm water and salt added, as I read somewhere it was moisturizing and antiseptic to the throat.  It worked wonders!  I have only done this three times so far and what was a constant cough has all but disappeared! Please try it! Also, I felt I was extremely dehydrated in both my nose and throat from the cold, so I started drinking extra water, tea, etc. Between the gargling and the extra fluids, it has all but gone in only two days!

[yoshi45]

I've had this problem since childhood. I always get a persistent and annoying cough for 3-4 months after getting sick around the fall. Getting a flu shot didn't help. I've always had a phlegm problem and it never seems to come out thru my nose as it should. I recently discovered I may have a deviated septum that causes this phlegm problem. I will be seeing an ENT soon and hopefully get properly diagnosed for a deviated septum and get a septoplasty to rectify this issue, because I am frankly, like everyone on here, so sick and tired of this cough. Consistently every time I get sick I get a lingering tickling in my throat that never goes away and it decreases my quality of life, destroys relationships with friends because I am always irritated by this tickle and cough for months, and disrupts my daily life from school to doing simple things like eating. I don't care what it takes, I want to get rid of it

[pmmb]

Try Clear lungs by Ridgecrest Herbals.  You can get it in the health food store.  They are capsules.  You take 2x day.   I could not get rid of my cough...musinex, nothing would take it away.  This product worked in 2 days.  Amazing.  

[swanoria]

I've had all these symptoms too, off and on.  Mine are related to laryngopharyngeal reflux.  No fun at all!

[lucy11266]

I am having a tickly/itchy feeling in my throat all the time for past few months and I can not figure out what to do.  I am unable to get a doctor who listens so I could use help.  I have had previous trauma to esophagus which led to thoracic surgery which makes things more difficult.  I am coughing until throughing up.  

[dposey]

My 25 year old son had what he was told was pneumonia and was given two rounds of antibiotics, two chest x-rays, etc.  He even told the doctor that he was having trouble breathing and his left side of his chest hurt when he took a deep breath.  This went on for about a three weeks.  Two days after his second doctor visit he died of a massive PE in his left lung.  5/17/2015.