Persistent cough making it difficult to sleep

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Whenever I wake up, I always feel so relieved in the chest area. I took a nap just now and had a vivid dream (which I don't remember) and feel that way. I get the sense I may actually be very sick.

please take care of yourself.

An bronchitis is an serious illness. Around here you were not allowed to go to work and be told to stay at home, because you would need all the rest and comfort that you can get for getting better, just as an bronchitis can be passed on to your coworkers and customers. If there are some that have weak immune systems out of age, or having already another illness, weakening their body, they can easily get the bronchitis as well.

I live in a very cold area, so bronchitis is in winter very spreaded, and I already had it two times myself. So experiences that might help you:

If its cold outside, then the air outside can hold only a very few amount of fluidness. If that air gets inside your flat, and then get heated that air becomes even dryer. An very oldschool way to prevent the air in your room becoming to dry, is by simply hanging wet towels above your warm radiators.

Someone mentioned chamomile-tea before. Actually chamomile is a good tea to drink, for most kind of flus and infects, beause of it easing infections, so if you got an typical neck infect, causing you to cough its good. But for an bronchitis its not that good, because of it drying the skin, which actually can increase the amount of coughing, during an bronchitis. For lung infects, around here is used a "Bronchial-tea" that are a mix of certain herbs (which google actually cant translate all ) but they are as well easing infected areas, but without the drying effect. As well as some herbs, helping your lung to produce more fluid, so that it is easier to cough away the infectious slime.

Dont drink tea hot! Tea IS good but let it cool down, so that it is warm. Too great heat increases as well the coughing-stimulus in your neck, as does to cold air or drinks. Avoid green/black tea. They actually dry as well your skin and so increase the coughing.

Avoid physical efforts, your bronchies are responsible for your blood being supported with oxygen. When they are actually infected, they do that job pretty lame, so avoid exhausting yourself. It was best if you stayed at home.

Care for eating healthy, to support your body with the nutrition it needs for fighting the illness. Once your body has gathered information about the disease, its starts producing antibodies against it. For producing cells it needs certain materials, so care for eating healthy. That typical "chicken soup" is good because of the typical chicken/pea/noodle mix, because its a good mix of easy digestible flesh, vegetables as well as some pure carbohydrates for supplying you with energy. But its only an example, in general see to it, that you are eating healthy, and that you get some easy digestible protein and vitamins. So mild flesh, vegetables, fruits, ... Dont stress yourself about producing them: When I am ill, I either order them from restaurants that produce them fresh, or care for healthy frozen meals, that I only need to heat, but I definitely dont do great shopping tours and then cook for hours some meals. ^^ Care as well for drinking enough water/tea, if you have a low water amount in your blood, that makes it harder for your lungs to produce fluidness, to cough the slime away.

Keep yourself warm and wear a stale or cloth around your neck. Your antibodies work the better, the warmer your body is. The fever that so many illnesses involve, is nothing else then your body itself raising your body temperature, to help your antibodies fight the illness. So as long as it is in moderate amount, that is a good thing. If you dont have fever anyway, then care for wearing warm cloths, protect your neck, and avoid the cold. If you go outside and the cold air forces you to cough again, you can pull the stale upon your mouth, so that you breath in the stale, this either keeps the air you breath in warm, as well that it is then not as dry, because of the stale catching some of your breathing water.

If you still cant sleep, because of the amount of coughing, talk to your doctor about the problem and ask him for help. The problem is, that you SHALL cough in general to help your lung getting the infected slime out. But if its that much, that you cannot sleep, then that weakens you and your body. So for sleeping I got a medication for the evening, that helped me easen the coughing at night, but only so that I could sleep an amount of the day.

Really care for getting healthy again, so the two times I had an bronchitis, it healed actually in 1-2 weeks, with me being home for one week. But my lung-function still was worsened until spring. So the infection itself was gone, but for my defected lung-material fully recovering from it, I needed to wait until good, warm weather again. So dont mistake a bronchitis with some minor flu. As well that as long as you go outside among other people, there is a high risc, for you getting other infections as well, because of your body being weakened actually.

I went back to the doctor; she's changed up my medications and wants me to wait until Thursday to return to work.

Holy moly! I was prescribed hydrocodone! I was also prescribed an inhaler (Albuterol) and a new stronger antibiotic. I asked her if this was a bacterium and she affirmed, yes, as I don't fit the pattern of a viral infection. She thinks I have bronchitis, still.

I shouldn't have taken the hydrocodone, though, as I see my therapist today at 2:30 PM. I was told it could make me sleepy. I wonder if I should call him and ask him to reschedule.

EDIT: Hydrocodone is not nasty at all, which is a pleasant surprise. To me, some cough syrups seem to have a really nasty aftertaste.

EDIT 2: My therapist rescheduled with no charge.

Well, I just slept some and feel somewhat better. I'm going to work tomorrow, because not doing so would result in an occurrence that would take a year to roll off. My boss says I should stay home despite the occurrence, but unless he "sends" me home, which would cause it not to be an occurrence, then I'm going into work.

While sleeping I had a very vivid dream. What I can remember of that dream were meeting a lady who was helping me out, logging onto the forum I was recently banned from somehow under a different username, and doing a lot of walking and needing to take a van out and sign it out and then when I'm done with it post its current location so it can be picked up.

what your boss might not understand, is that if you go to work when you are sick and get sicker resulting in you having to take time off later, that is counterproductive from his standpoint. he is being penny-wise but pound-foolish.

My manager sent me home on account of the illness and told me to come back Thursday. Reading our attendance policy, this does NOT count as an occurrence.

Ugh, my chest is tight, I'm having a dry cough, and I can't sleep.

please see a doc first thing in the morning!

I was able to get to sleep and slept quite well. I still have a cough, but I gotta go back to work today. I will probably need to forgo the day dose of the hydrocodone today to accommodate work.

Well, I went ahead and took the Tussionex/hydrocodone and I'm at work and I seem to be doing fine. The Tussionex never seemed to have much effect on my mental state, which is good.

I'm here at work, doing OK, though I feel kinda dizzy and spacey. Maybe that's the medicine or maybe I just need to drink more water.

keeping well-hydrated is ALWAYS a good idea, your urine should not be any darker than straw-colored. as I heard in some old danny kaye movie, "the solution to pollution is dilution."

Ugh. Whenever I do any physical exertion or step out into the cold, my chest gets tight and I start coughing again.