Posted by ChrisM. on 6/17/2008, 10:44 pm, in reply to "REaction to Cough Medicine"
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I know this sounds counterintuitive, but slow tiny sips of water usually helps ease my coughs. We never want to supress productive coughs as we need to huff out as much sputum as possible. Sometimes we tend to associate problems and try to stop the urinary problems by not drinking fluids only to have it backfire as a cough that's too dry to get the irritant out of the chest area. Our COPD has cost most of us the celia which helps move mucous up and out, so it helps to loosen it as much as possible and huff it up and out. You commented that it "was lightcolored until yesterday...." which suggests to me you might actually a brewing an infection that's not necesarily going to induce a temperature....Might be worth letting a good lung Doc listen to the lungs and perhaps treat as a "just in case" situation...

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Posted by KarenSC on 6/17/2008, 5:35 pm, in reply to "REaction to Cough Medicine"
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Sometimes using my albuterol inhaler helps.

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Posted by ConniCA on 6/17/2008, 1:27 pm, in reply to "REaction to Cough Medicine"
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Call your doctor. If the Rx causes trouble give the doc the info and the opportunity to help you. As far as the incontenence goes, that's a prolem I share, especially when I have a cough (I do not usually have problems with cough or phlegm with my COPD). Horrible! I buy those most absorbant incontenence pads and wonder if I'll ever pee the regular way again! But, once the cough clears up, I do better. Although I began taking Vesicare a couple of months ago which helps.

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