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.

[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.  

[cypruskit]

Every year I have the same problem.  What starts as a small cold which lasts three days, turns into a persistent cough that doesn't allow me to rest.  Today I'm on week four of this dry tickly cough which produces this clear/white mucus.  
The only thing that has helped me with finding relief of this persistent cough year after year is that I invested in a nebulizer which I add an ampule of saline and and ampule of Salbutamol for 3 times a day and the relief is almost immediate. Of course ask your Dr. if it will work for you.
The inhalers don't really work for me as I sometimes may not inhale them properly but with the nebuilizer the machine turns the ampules into a mist/steam and after inhaling this for 10 minutes, you are sure to get the proper treatment.  If it's a very bad cough, then my Dr. adds a cortisone ampule as well.
I hope this will help someone as I've been suffering for a while now before I discovered this treatment worked for me.

[lymo]

I had the same thing happen to me. First, I notice that I was sneezing a lot and after that were tickles inside my throat. I had mucus but not a lot. There was a time that I coughed for 1 minute without stopping and I barely could breath at all. I'm so lucky that I was in my home at that time. It was so embarrassing if happen in a public place. By the way, I had a GERD and I'm 31.

[tess0930]

I have had it for years and have been taking omperazole for Acidreflux.  Nothing seens to help.

[Amy52]

I've been having the breathing/coughing issues you described for over a year. What was it that you "breathed" that caused an irritant? Airborne Pathogens?