Anyone else dealing with chest infection?

I normally have a very bad chest infection most years. It does feel the same every year (like I am coughing up razor blades and feels like it goes from my chest to my ears). No other symptoms (no blocked nose, no streaming or itchy eyes, just the cough). I've only had one year where I had a few streaks of blood in the cough but most of the time it is a dry cough and means no sleeping on my back and trying to not cough because it just hurts too much. I'm waiting for it to return this year...


I have in the past been on antibiotics for it but each time it would take two courses of two different antibiotics to work. It's not as if I like taking antibiotics (without going into mass consipritally sounding details, you'll have trust me on that!) but the pain from coughing gets too bad.


I would say the best thing to do is to go back to your GP and keep going back if the treatment they have offered does not work or has not helped enough. My GP once told me if you don't go back they assume that what they have given you has worked and is a cure. If it isn't and you still need help, go back because they can do more but will always start at the lest intrusive and mildest form of treatment first before moving up a scale with each time you return.


But like I say; if you don't go back they assume you are fine, you are cured and you are happy with the situation. Go back if this is not the case.

I have got frequent chest infections for years. Never smoked but always asked about it at doctors. I've had chest x-rays before and had another one last week - because it was particularly bad this year so am back to the GP next week for results but I can definitely empathise. I don't really have any ways of managing particularly well though. I hate the coughing so much

Other thing could be you're allergic to something in your environment - dust mite droppings and/or mould spores, both of which tend to be worse in winter because windows are closed and we aren't out in the fresh air as much.

It wouldn't hurt to look at washing all your bedlinen on a very hot wash, vacuuming thoroughly including the mattress, replacing pillows and cleaning your curtains/rugs, plus cleaning down all places where mould can grow (bathroom, around windows, back of wardrobes, etc) and dusting all corners of rooms and tops of furniture - even if it makes no difference at all, the worst you'll have is a brilliantly clean home out of it and the same cough.