Persistent cough making it difficult to sleep

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I've been coughing some more and my chest feels a little tight.

I've been tired, apparently. I just got home from work and slept for a long time, even though my sleeping schedule has normalized in the past few days. As I got up, I can tell how irritable I've been. I also had a really vivid dream. I feel kinda achy after getting up.

care to talk about the dream?

My chest is a bit tight and I'm coughing again.

I hope you can determinedly make your presence at your doc's office known sufficient for them to give you definitive medical treatment. you have been suffering too long without treatment, I do hope you make your doc do what he or she is supposed to do to heal you.

Thanks. Exercise just made everything worse.

Another thing I've noticed is that in the last week, I've gotten a lot more irritable; sleep seems to help irritability somewhat, but when I'm at work and so can't sleep, whoo boy!

OK. I've done what I shouldn't have been doing. I've been doing that stimming thing where I listen to the same part of the same song over and over again while moving around the room. Now I've been coughing again, and it seemed to get so hard again that I almost threw up. My chest is tight again.

You know, I'm beginning to wonder if this really isn't bronchitis. My coughing seems to have gotten worse again with things getting dry and with exercise. I'm still questioning if I actually have asthma. That would be a relief, actually, because I know asthma is very treatable.

Ugh. My eyes are itchy and red.

Sounds more like bronchitis or pneumonia, I know we arent too close geographically but our local news just did a spot on several local cases of pertussis. Hope you get treated and the doc can get you back up to par.
Sending some happy thoughts and good vibes your way.

bronchitis and/or atypical pneumonia typically do not present with fever outside of flu.

Thanks.

Here's something I'm really excited about now: I just found out that Medicare's exclusion of sex reassignment surgery was found to have an inadequate evidence base, which means Medicare might cover the surgery now! Medicare coverage of the surgery could spark a sea change! I'm so excited about it! Such excitement is probably not good for my cough, though.

try not to think about it, distract yourself with something else. let it be a pleasant surprise.