anxious_thoughts
22-03-18, 04:12
Hello,
I don’t even know where to begin! For the past 5 months I’ve been coughing and have had bad post nasal drip that won’t go away no matter how many times I use my netipot. It’s honestly driving me insane!
Back when it first began my doctor thought it was a chest infection so she put me on antibiotics and took a chest X-ray but everything was clear and the meds didn’t help. She even gave me a nasal spray to help with the post nasal drip but it doesn’t work. I had to use an orange and blue puffer since my doctor hears wheezing in my chest but I really don’t feel much of a difference after using them. My doctor sent me to an allergist about a month ago and we found out I’m extremely allergic to dusts and cats. The allergist brought up asthma and sent me out for a lung challenge test which I did a couple weeks ago, and now I have to go do a methacholine challenge test next week (which I’m deathly afraid of!)
Anyways, the cough comes and goes. It’s not really there during the day, and I don’t have much wheezing during the day. It all mostly happens at night. The puffers help with the wheezing as well as drinking water.
I have the constant sensation in my throat that there’s phlegm. It’s been like that since my cough started (it started after I had two colds in a row) but since January I’ve started to have a lot more phlegm that’s really thick. The phlegm is also either white or clear and it comes out chunky and only tiny bits. So I don’t think the colour of it is a concern. However, I’m so worried about the wheezing. Last night I woke up in the middle of the night and my chest was very wheezy. Every time I took a breath I could hear a rattle and a whistling noise. Before going to bed last night my cough was so bad and I noticed that when it’s bad the wheezing is usually worse.
I honestly don’t know what to do anymore. I sometimes will get coughing fits that have the chesty cough sensation. But most of the time during the day my cough is usually just me trying to get the phlegm out. I’m hoping it’s all just post nasal drip for allergies. But I’m extremely worried that I have something sinister and that my lungs will give out any day now :(
I don’t even know where to begin! For the past 5 months I’ve been coughing and have had bad post nasal drip that won’t go away no matter how many times I use my netipot. It’s honestly driving me insane!
Back when it first began my doctor thought it was a chest infection so she put me on antibiotics and took a chest X-ray but everything was clear and the meds didn’t help. She even gave me a nasal spray to help with the post nasal drip but it doesn’t work. I had to use an orange and blue puffer since my doctor hears wheezing in my chest but I really don’t feel much of a difference after using them. My doctor sent me to an allergist about a month ago and we found out I’m extremely allergic to dusts and cats. The allergist brought up asthma and sent me out for a lung challenge test which I did a couple weeks ago, and now I have to go do a methacholine challenge test next week (which I’m deathly afraid of!)
Anyways, the cough comes and goes. It’s not really there during the day, and I don’t have much wheezing during the day. It all mostly happens at night. The puffers help with the wheezing as well as drinking water.
I have the constant sensation in my throat that there’s phlegm. It’s been like that since my cough started (it started after I had two colds in a row) but since January I’ve started to have a lot more phlegm that’s really thick. The phlegm is also either white or clear and it comes out chunky and only tiny bits. So I don’t think the colour of it is a concern. However, I’m so worried about the wheezing. Last night I woke up in the middle of the night and my chest was very wheezy. Every time I took a breath I could hear a rattle and a whistling noise. Before going to bed last night my cough was so bad and I noticed that when it’s bad the wheezing is usually worse.
I honestly don’t know what to do anymore. I sometimes will get coughing fits that have the chesty cough sensation. But most of the time during the day my cough is usually just me trying to get the phlegm out. I’m hoping it’s all just post nasal drip for allergies. But I’m extremely worried that I have something sinister and that my lungs will give out any day now :(