Chest Infection

[4getmenot]

I got a cold last Sunday and I still have a really bad cough which has been keeping me up all night. I think I have a chest infection, I rang docs this morning to get appointment and get some antibiotics and they said they were booked up all week but I could ring tomorrow morning to get a emergency appointment then. I dont want another sleepless night is there anything I can buy in shops that would help?

[Lakitu]

Get yourself a small bottle of eucalyptus and put a couple of drops into hot water and breathe in the steam. Get your self a bottle of covonia, really vile stuff but it's really does help.

I believe vaporub on your chest will help break down the mucus too

[4getmenot]

Thank you lakitu, I�m fine through the day then as soon as I go to sleep it dries up and in morning I am honking my lungs up again (sorry to be disgusting). Its just really getting me down.

[Lakitu]

I was like that too, only having problems at night and coughing up a lung in the morning.

The steaming effect will help loosen everything up and the covonia really is owerful stuff (but you'll gag at the taste - have a large glass of water ready LOL)

[redcrx]

if you call them first thing tomorrow you should get appt for same day sis.

little CRX is still coughing a lot when tired and cant stop himself. Do you get hayfever at all? it could be to do with that as well

[4getmenot]

yes they said that redcrx but I called first thing today and they were booked up. I just cant stand another night of it. As for hayfever I have been taking antihistamines aswell as my sinuses have been giving me really bad headache with the cold and all.

[cazzz1975]

I really feel for you 4get, I have just got over that and I am just starting to not have to cough my guts up in the morning, it takes eons to go :S

[4getmenot]

:-( Well I just went to shops and got some corvonia and first mouthful I thought it wasnt that bad then the after taste came, Yuk!!! Tastes worse than the gunk I;ve been coughing up.

[Lakitu]

I know, it's really minging but it really does help xx

[4getmenot]

well my mum said the worse it tastes the better it will work so lets hope

[shylock73]

A good old remedy is to put `Vick Vapour-Rub` on the bottom of your feet and spread it all over. Sarah Kennedy mentioned it this morning on Radio 2 at 6.40 approx if you doubt my word, also a cure for sea-sickness. Listen again on Radio 2.

[4getmenot]

yes I had heard that too and did it last week, didnt do a thing. But the Vix did expire 2002

[LoftyLottie]

I thought I could hear strange coughing noises from along the road 4get!!

Damned doctors! I would rather go back to the days when you just went down to the surgery and queued, but you won't remember that far back t! We might have had a long wait, but noone was ever turned away. Do you not have a practice nurse who has dispense prescriptions if necessary? If they have any doubts they then talk to a doctor - at least you get to see one then.

I hope you feel better soon. x

[zzxxee]

prop yourself right up on lots of pillows and take a medicine called buttercup mixed with 1 teaspoon of honey and a splash of brandy

[maggiemcgill]

I recently had this problem, fine in the all day except the morning.
I tried all kinds of remedies which didn�t work, until I tried Lemsip chesty cough syrup. It's not got that sticky, medicine flavour like a lot of the others.

Hope you get better soon :D

[carron81]

i would call your docs, ask if you could pop down & pick up a tube so you can hand in a spit sample.
i ended up with the flu at the end of aug 06, it went away but i was left with this really irritating cough & i just didnt feel right.i tried everything in the chemist, after a month i though its time to go to the doctor
went & he said - these things just need time to heal.as ive never had any health problems i listened to him
my breathing got worse. ended up making an emergency app & seen a different doctor.he told me to try yoga!!! this would control my breathing. so yet again, off i went. couldnt do yoga but because my breathing & cough was that bad
so, yet again. i had to make another emergency app. saw a doctor & he said there was a few virus' at the back of my throat. i was so happy thinking i would get somehing for this. he told my the only thing i could do was not cough!!! so off i went thinking the virus would heal soon
then my face started to swell up, so i went to the dentist. she took one look at me &couldnt believe that the doc hadnt given me anything. she had to put me on pain killers & antibiotics. she said because whatever was wrong with my chest had made me run down & my imune system wouldn't be fighting as hard to heal infections.
went back to the doc, finally saw someone that knew what she was speaking about. she coulndt believe none of the docs had asked for a spit sample, she got me to do that, signed me up for asthma testing
a few days later she called to say that i had a really bad chest infection. this was now dec 06 but the antibiotics never cleared it. so then had to go for xrays and that was showing up shadows in my lungs which turned out to be bronchitis.im now waiting to go for a CAT scan, they think the tubes of my lungs are damaged
sorry for going on so much. but if that first doctor had just done one simple spit sample i wouldnt be in the position im in today!so get on at