I have a relation that also coughed for many years and had
many tests which proved negative until she came across someone who
suggested it might be the steel band in partial dentures. when this was
replaced with a plastic piece she has now stopped coughing.
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- NickP
- Leigh, in Lancashire, United Kingdom
- I've had a cough for 18 years now, and have tried many, many things to get rid of it, without any lasting success. This blog is full of ideas that people have sent me after I appeared in the newspapers, and on radio and TV, talking about it a few years ago.
Things I've tried:
- Just about every "conventional" medical test there is... plus
- Acupuncture
- Hypnotherapy
- Cutting out dairy & wheat
- Humidifier in the bedroom
- Food intolerance tests
- Meditation
- Chinese herbal medicine
- Homeopathy
- Buteyko
Simple ideas
- My favourite - chewing Airwaves gum
- A Fisherman's Friend!
- Cup of boiling water, 2 tspns honey, 2 slices lemon
- Suck fruit pastilles
- Gargle with vinegary water
Odd ideas
"Wear a Darth Vader Voice Changer Mask ... it'll distract from the coughing and hide the chewing!"
"Give up drinking Coke! (I don't anyway)
"... it's a fur ball, like my cat gets - someone should give you a slap on the back!"
"A girl I know who was constantly coughing was found to be eating her own hair while asleep, so you might want to consult a sleep therapist… or a barber."
"Take down your net curtains!"
"Eat three bananas a day."
or "four lemons"
or "10 dessert spoons of extra virgin olive oil!"
"Surround yourself with spider plants.."
"Give up drinking Coke! (I don't anyway)
"... it's a fur ball, like my cat gets - someone should give you a slap on the back!"
"A girl I know who was constantly coughing was found to be eating her own hair while asleep, so you might want to consult a sleep therapist… or a barber."
"Take down your net curtains!"
"Eat three bananas a day."
or "four lemons"
or "10 dessert spoons of extra virgin olive oil!"
"Surround yourself with spider plants.."
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Cough jokes - because we need to keep a sense of humour!
...John was a clerk in a small drugstore but he was not much of a salesman. He could never find the item the customer wanted. Bob, the owner, had had about enough and warned John that the next sale he missed would be his last.
Just then a man came in coughing and he asked John for their best cough syrup. Try as he might John could not find the cough syrup. Remembering Bob's warning he sold the man a box of Ex-Lax and told him to take it all at once. The customer did as John said and then walked outside and leaned against a lamp post.
Bob had seen the whole thing and came over to ask John what had transpired. "He wanted something for his cough but I couldn't find the cough syrup. I substituted Ex-Lax and told him to take it all at once," John explained.
"Ex-Lax won't cure a cough," Bob shouted angrily.
"Sure it will," John said, pointing at the man leaning on the lamp post. "Look at him. He's afraid to cough!"
Next: not a joke, but these emails made me laugh on the Manchester Evening News website when the story first appeared:
"I can help this man. I need his address. I have a electronic device which will surely help him to cure from this caugh. If anyone can give me his address, i can post the device for free. it can also help from various body pains including back pain." sadab, Dhaka, Bangladesh
"Thanks Sadab, they're known in the UK as cattle prods. Do send it to him though..."
Mr.Manchester
Just then a man came in coughing and he asked John for their best cough syrup. Try as he might John could not find the cough syrup. Remembering Bob's warning he sold the man a box of Ex-Lax and told him to take it all at once. The customer did as John said and then walked outside and leaned against a lamp post.
Bob had seen the whole thing and came over to ask John what had transpired. "He wanted something for his cough but I couldn't find the cough syrup. I substituted Ex-Lax and told him to take it all at once," John explained.
"Ex-Lax won't cure a cough," Bob shouted angrily.
"Sure it will," John said, pointing at the man leaning on the lamp post. "Look at him. He's afraid to cough!"
Next: not a joke, but these emails made me laugh on the Manchester Evening News website when the story first appeared:
"I can help this man. I need his address. I have a electronic device which will surely help him to cure from this caugh. If anyone can give me his address, i can post the device for free. it can also help from various body pains including back pain." sadab, Dhaka, Bangladesh
"Thanks Sadab, they're known in the UK as cattle prods. Do send it to him though..."
Mr.Manchester
2 comments:
Having read all the comments on the site and finding all of them covering my symptoms in one form or another, this was the only one that has not been suggested before, ie a metal dental plate.
I started coughing in approx 1984 and tried all the recommended medication suggested by my GP, including nasal sprays, throat sprays etc, to no avail. It eventually got so bad the spasms were making me black out, this prompted my GP to send me to a consultant. The consultant put me on Omnaprozole 10mg twice a day, and eventually in 2003 sent me for a throat examination ( Gastroscopy I think). I didn’t have a general anaesthetic for the inspection. which I afterwards regretted as it took to burly female nurses to hold me down whilst he shoved the camera down my throat. It really hurt, but I survived and went home regretting not having a general anaesthetic. Guess what, my cough was cured. I survived an emergency Abdominal Aortic Aneurism in 2004, which I almost certainly wouldn’t have done if I still had my cough.
Six months ago it came back and I’m desperately trying to get my consultant (who I see every six months) to send me for another gastroscopy, but she is sceptical that this was the cure (or the relief). So I see her again soon and will push again. She has put me on a regime of 40mg omnaprozole daily and Ranitidine 150 & Metoclopramide 10mg twice daily.
In the meant-time I will take my Cobalt plate out.
PS I find a pint of Tanglefoot beer definitely helps
For 1984 read 1994, sorry!!
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