tirez
18-03-18, 12:44
I'm 34 years' old and new to this forum.
In mid-December last year, I caught a pretty bad cold that gave me a dry tickly cough that eventually began to subside. Then, some weeks later, I got the beginnings of a cold again, but this time with a chesty cough.
Although the cough has largely disappeared, I am still getting various symptoms, such as shortness of breath (at rest), tight chest and a rattling sound when I breathe.
The weird thing about my cough at the moment is that when I wake up I don't have any need to cough, but if I intentionally test it a few times and get up and about, it seems to slowly translate into a rattly chest (ie, when I breathe in and out, it makes a crackling sound from my chest). The same thing happens in the evening sometimes, although I rarely have problems during the day.
I cycle a lot (around 15 miles per day) and have a pretty healthy diet, smoke very occasionally (maybe a few times a year, if that - although I try to stop that from happening by cutting down on the all-night parties these days!). I never seem to feel the tight chest and difficulty breathing when I'm on the bike; although I do notice sometimes that I can't quite breathe as much as I should be able to sometimes, like when I'm stopped at a traffic light, for example.
I have been reasonably prone to colds going to my chest in the past (not always and I can't remember if any of the colds I had last year translated into a cough as well - my intuition is that they didn't).
The doctors have thrown everything at this: antibiotics (I've just finished one 24-hour dose), nasal spray, acid reflux meds, inhalers, antihistamines etc. They're still telling me that it's nothing to worry about, and every time I visit the GP they say my chest sounds clear (but the rattling sound never surfaces when I'm at the doc). I have had a chest x-ray, but it came back as clear.
Given that nothing has worked, I really don't know what else it could be apart from lung cancer. I'm having a really hard time believing that anxiety could be causing ongoing rattly/crackly sounds in my chest and shortness of breath/tight chest sensation. The fact this has been going on since mid-December is worrying me as well.
On the diet/exercise front, I honestly don't know how I could eat any healthier or do any more exercise. Before I started university in September I used to run 3 or 4 times a week, as well as the 15 mile + bike rides every day, and I even did a bike tour of Holland last year with my girlfriend, so imagined I was in pretty good shape.
Has anyone had any symptoms like this? I thought the crackly sound when I breathe was wheezing, but the GP told me that word is only used to describe laboured breathing, so I don't know how else to describe the crackling/bubbling/rattling sound when I breathe sometimes.
My anxiety over this is in overdrive at the moment...:weep:
In mid-December last year, I caught a pretty bad cold that gave me a dry tickly cough that eventually began to subside. Then, some weeks later, I got the beginnings of a cold again, but this time with a chesty cough.
Although the cough has largely disappeared, I am still getting various symptoms, such as shortness of breath (at rest), tight chest and a rattling sound when I breathe.
The weird thing about my cough at the moment is that when I wake up I don't have any need to cough, but if I intentionally test it a few times and get up and about, it seems to slowly translate into a rattly chest (ie, when I breathe in and out, it makes a crackling sound from my chest). The same thing happens in the evening sometimes, although I rarely have problems during the day.
I cycle a lot (around 15 miles per day) and have a pretty healthy diet, smoke very occasionally (maybe a few times a year, if that - although I try to stop that from happening by cutting down on the all-night parties these days!). I never seem to feel the tight chest and difficulty breathing when I'm on the bike; although I do notice sometimes that I can't quite breathe as much as I should be able to sometimes, like when I'm stopped at a traffic light, for example.
I have been reasonably prone to colds going to my chest in the past (not always and I can't remember if any of the colds I had last year translated into a cough as well - my intuition is that they didn't).
The doctors have thrown everything at this: antibiotics (I've just finished one 24-hour dose), nasal spray, acid reflux meds, inhalers, antihistamines etc. They're still telling me that it's nothing to worry about, and every time I visit the GP they say my chest sounds clear (but the rattling sound never surfaces when I'm at the doc). I have had a chest x-ray, but it came back as clear.
Given that nothing has worked, I really don't know what else it could be apart from lung cancer. I'm having a really hard time believing that anxiety could be causing ongoing rattly/crackly sounds in my chest and shortness of breath/tight chest sensation. The fact this has been going on since mid-December is worrying me as well.
On the diet/exercise front, I honestly don't know how I could eat any healthier or do any more exercise. Before I started university in September I used to run 3 or 4 times a week, as well as the 15 mile + bike rides every day, and I even did a bike tour of Holland last year with my girlfriend, so imagined I was in pretty good shape.
Has anyone had any symptoms like this? I thought the crackly sound when I breathe was wheezing, but the GP told me that word is only used to describe laboured breathing, so I don't know how else to describe the crackling/bubbling/rattling sound when I breathe sometimes.
My anxiety over this is in overdrive at the moment...:weep: