zummerset
06-01-18, 10:44
Hi, hoping you can offer me some reassurance and stop my propensity for thinking negatively.
For the last few years I get a cold every year and every year it ends up on my chest. A right rattling and gurgling affair it is too. Ex smoker that will still have a puff occasionally but by no means heavy or regular (once or twice a month socially....but stopping that too soon). Cough never lasts more than a week or so and I only cough up the usual gunk. As a point of fact I didn't have the cough last year!
Couple of questions, is it normal to have a heavy cold end up on your chest like that yearly. I am very rarely given Antibiotics and my own GP (if I bother him) generally tells me to use a vapour bath and ride it out.
Second question, I went to see a different GP this time (mine wasnt available) who has given me Antibiotics and has suggested a chest xray in 6 weeks. He did point out he wasn't looking for anything sinister but equally didn't exactly tell me what he was?
I'm not really prone to worrying too much but I am a little confused and wonder if he is being a bit over thorough and why? Cough has nearly gone now and I am feeling much better.
Please be gentle as I don't want anything else to worry about ;)
Thanks...
For the last few years I get a cold every year and every year it ends up on my chest. A right rattling and gurgling affair it is too. Ex smoker that will still have a puff occasionally but by no means heavy or regular (once or twice a month socially....but stopping that too soon). Cough never lasts more than a week or so and I only cough up the usual gunk. As a point of fact I didn't have the cough last year!
Couple of questions, is it normal to have a heavy cold end up on your chest like that yearly. I am very rarely given Antibiotics and my own GP (if I bother him) generally tells me to use a vapour bath and ride it out.
Second question, I went to see a different GP this time (mine wasnt available) who has given me Antibiotics and has suggested a chest xray in 6 weeks. He did point out he wasn't looking for anything sinister but equally didn't exactly tell me what he was?
I'm not really prone to worrying too much but I am a little confused and wonder if he is being a bit over thorough and why? Cough has nearly gone now and I am feeling much better.
Please be gentle as I don't want anything else to worry about ;)
Thanks...