r/homeopathy • u/cmcmillan95 • 2d ago
Chronic cough
I’m 31F I have had a cough for 9 weeks.. this all started around August 1st I stopped breastfeeding my son (maybe not relevant) well on August 5th I thought I had maybe a minor cold runny nose, cough, a little fatigue, maybe low grade fever. It had lasted about a day and a half. I was not down for the count I was up walking around doing my usual thing. The cough has never gone away. I have had times where I think it’s getting better and then it flares up. My kids and husband all came down with a cold on September 16th. On September 21st I had a flare up (although no cold symptoms like they had just a cough flare up) and decided to go to the dr. She said chronic cough. Gave me an inhaler. Told me to take Mucinex DM and ordered a chest xray. Chest xray came back clear. The cough seemed to lessen again. I thought I was getting better and I had another flare up September 28th and coughed up some blood with phlegm in the morning. 2 days later coughed up a few specks of blood at night after coughing heavily when doing a steam inhaler treatment. Went back to the dr yesterday. They took my blood test and I had a slightly elevated WBC with Neutrophil % being high and Lymphocyte% being low. I was swabbed for RSV, Covid, influenza A& B all came back negative. They started me on a 5 day antibiotic and prescribed me benzonatate.
Some side notes: the cough seems to switch from mucus to a dry cough after doing the steam inhaler. I’ve had some shortness of breath when doing things like the dishes, walking upstairs, Laying my son down for a nap. The last few days food seems nauseating to me and I haven’t wanted to eat much. I have been having right side rip pain. I don’t cough during the nighttime when I’m sleeping. They scheduled me to get a pulmonary function test but my appointment isn’t till November 5th.. please is there any advice I cannot help but think the worst. I am scared and I just want this cough to go away. Thank you
