Coughing

[Dr Jekyll]

Had a massive cold last week, blocked nose, sore throat, cough, various aches, you know the kind of thing. It then passed off except for the cough. I have a slight blocked nose, a bit of a sore throat, but I'm coughing most of the day and (it feels like) all night. Can't sleep and my ribs/chest hurts with all the coughing.
There is also an occasional odd noise when I breathe, a squeak or crackling sound.

Does this means I've been hit by a chest infection as well as the cold or is it the cold still lingering on?

[motco]

Pholcodine linctus works but shouldn't be used if you're coughing up phlegm according to the label.

[SimonTheSailor]

Is this the Aussie flu virus ?

I've got similar at the minute with an annoying dry tickly cough.....

[davek_964]

My cough was never as bad as you describe - but it's hung around for about a month now. It is getting better, and it's almost gone - but the improvement is so slow, I reckon I have at least a week - if not two - before it's gone completely.

[Seventy]

Mine lasted the best part of three months
Couple of times it subsided only to return - my missus made me go to the doctor who checked me over, said I had a viral infection, and said they called it the 'hundred day cough'.
Mine was dry.

[Derek Smith]

I've had Aussie flu since 31 December. I still have sweats and shiver on occasion, but with lower frequency. The main problem now is coughing. Any change in temperature starts me off. At night I wake up coughing two or three times. It's reducing slowly and the chest pains from coughing have gone.

Paracetamol works to a limited extent, as do wine gums.

I am seriously irritated by it all.

[Europa1]

As the public information ads say, if you have a cough that isn't shifting, please do get it checked out. I had one that wasn't shifting, I didn't feel particularly ill, but the ex-squeeze made me go the doctor...and this Friday I have an appointment to find out if I'm going on to the transplant list.

[Pericoloso]

Middle of last week I had an odd "cold".

Was generally fine during the day but when trying to sleep ,nose got all bunged up and plenty of coughing ensued but strangely

I sneezed once all week.

Mostly gone now ,thankfully.