COPD & Emphysema Support Group

Good to know joanny & debbear, that is it exactly!! Feels like something is stuck in my throat!! I don't like it!!!!

You can always count on people here trying to help!! I am onlisinipril for high bp & was sent a link that it has been known to cause coughing in some. It could be that - I will check -- but the greatest part of all this is ---- we all have this disease & so many go out of their way to help others when they aren't feeling so hot themselves!!! Some people are amazingly caring -- thank-you L--

Denise............I always tell my hubby that as soon as I cough my lung out, I will be fine...........cause that is sure how it feels sometimes:(:( Cough......cough..............

~~~~bear

I saw my Pulmonary Doc as a F/U and told him about my cough. He prescribed Methylprednisolone (a cortiosteroid). I finished it today and so far I'm cough free.
I have the feeling of a lump in the back of my throat (which is caused by GERD) and secretions in the back of my throat would seem to cause a coughing fit.
I'll see if the medicine keeps on working.

Thanks MDlady, I have since found out that it may be my blood pressure med --

I have severe bouts of coughing too. So reading all these suggestions, something caught my eye that bjrapp2020 said - dry mouth! I get that from time to time. So I need to keep lozenges around to create moisture in my mouth. When I get coughing it is usually a dry cough, sometimes with a little phlegm, but as a whole I just keep coughing for no apparent reason. I wonder if it could be a result of dry mouth.

Carol, that is possible -- do you take high blood pressure medicine?

Joany, read your comment about the lozeng and coughing and wanted to assure you I spit that out as soon as I feel a cough coming on. Sometimes I cough enough it irritates my throat and that soothes it. Your advice is very good advice and I should have included that in my comment. Thanks
BJ

Joany...That was a good reminder!

Dry mouth is common with some of the meds we take. Sue once recommended Biotine (found in drugstores). You spray it in your mouth and I see they've been advertising it on t.v. it has really helped me.

I have a morning cough, which I relate to wearing a CPAP at night..things seem to get clogged up a bit. That's not too bad, but the "coughing spasms" are the pits. Throat seems toget a dry scratchy patch all at once and there it goes...end up with watery eyes, red face and sore ribs. Scary and embarrassing all at the same time.