GirlAfraid23
15-02-14, 08:30
So I've been on antibiotics since Tuesday.
GP said I had a chest infection. At the start of the week I felt unwell - chills, fever, body aches etc.
Now I don't have those symptoms but I do have a lingering cough that won't go away.
Every time I lay down at night and try to sleep I get a wheezing/crackling in my chest and I have to cough.
When I wake up (in the night) and morning, I sometimes have a coughing fit for an hour. Which obviously means I am currently exhausted. It's the weekend today and I should be having a lie in...instead I woke up at 5am and started coughing then went back into a fitful sleep then awake again at 7am and coughed for an hour...I'm so tired now but everytime I lay down it starts up again.
At night, I don't get to sleep until late because of the cough and wheezing.
Does anyone have any advice?
Should I go back to my GP as antibiotics clearly aren't working?
I'm supposed to be going away on Monday for a night so will I be ok for that? I won't get a doctor before Monday unless I go to an out of hours.
Panic mode has set in!
GP said I had a chest infection. At the start of the week I felt unwell - chills, fever, body aches etc.
Now I don't have those symptoms but I do have a lingering cough that won't go away.
Every time I lay down at night and try to sleep I get a wheezing/crackling in my chest and I have to cough.
When I wake up (in the night) and morning, I sometimes have a coughing fit for an hour. Which obviously means I am currently exhausted. It's the weekend today and I should be having a lie in...instead I woke up at 5am and started coughing then went back into a fitful sleep then awake again at 7am and coughed for an hour...I'm so tired now but everytime I lay down it starts up again.
At night, I don't get to sleep until late because of the cough and wheezing.
Does anyone have any advice?
Should I go back to my GP as antibiotics clearly aren't working?
I'm supposed to be going away on Monday for a night so will I be ok for that? I won't get a doctor before Monday unless I go to an out of hours.
Panic mode has set in!