aec13cat
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Reged: 08/01/2009
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Loc: N. Ireland
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Mine is driving me mad. As soon as I go to bed it just won't stop. Have tried Covonia, sipping honey and lemon in warm water, sucking mints, sitting pretty upright etc. Any suggestions welcome after about 3 hours sleep last night!! 
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scarpantoni
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Reged: 22/07/2009
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Hello aec23cat ... Time of year I think ... I have had a niggly one for over a month now.
I like Original Buttercup ... but it does not stop completely during the day, but certainly helps when I want to sleep .... that, and a stiff drink to knock me out.
Hope you feel better soon and are singing at the top of your lungs real soon !!!
Love Scarp. xx 
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aec13cat
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Reged: 08/01/2009
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Loc: N. Ireland
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Hi Scarp and thank you. Had actually decided tonight I would have a few glasses of wine to hopefully help me sleep so will just say it was your suggestion!!
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annemari
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Reged: 07/03/2008
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Loc: Gloucestershire.
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I had this problem when I was in hospital a few years ago, and ever mindfull that I was disturbing the other patients, the more I tried to stop it the worse it became.
Eventually along came a lovely Nurse who gave me a slightly higher than normal dosage of Benylin. I thought it would never work, doesn't at home, so wouldn't on the ward, I then realised that the Benylin was on the hotter side of warm. Down in one gulp and problem solved.
I now do it this way at home as well, but I also take up to bed at night a glass of cold water that I have kept in the fridge, to sip at if I need it. Works a treat.
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Annemari xx
 The Three Musketeers were together again at Cardiff. Summer, ChattyCathy and my 'Mum' Auntie Annemari"
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aec13cat
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Loc: N. Ireland
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Between the wine and the hot Benylin I should sleep tonight. thanks.
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scottishmags
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Hi there
I used to get this a lot staying in university halls; eventually I realised the rooms were so overheated and dry; that was making things much worse
Do you heat your bedroom? Try turning the radiator off (you're still allowed a hot-water-bottle!) and putting a large bowl of boiling water near the bed to give off some steam. Breathe the moist air in as much as possible
You could buy a vaporiser but that costs money - this is the cheap Scottish equivalent!
I hope it eases off soon cos it's so exhausting
Mags
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scarpantoni
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Reged: 22/07/2009
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Go girl ... knock yerself out !!
xxxxx Scarp
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coby28
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Reged: 01/11/2008
Posts: 1115
Loc: Co Antrim
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Olbas oil in a steam inhalation has helped me but mine has been a horrible chesty cough rather than a dry tickly cough.
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aec13cat
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Reged: 08/01/2009
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Loc: N. Ireland
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No heat on Scottishmags and a window open also but will try the bowl of steaming water and might put some eucalyptus oil in it as well.
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rosacarol
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Reged: 16/10/2009
Posts: 353
Loc: Reading
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Try gargling with a couple of soluble paracetamol. Tastes horrible but it desensitises your throat.
Rosa x
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tuzanne
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Reged: 17/07/2009
Posts: 436
Loc: Essex
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I work on a childrens ward so caught loads of cold bugs in first couple of years before I started to get immune. I had a cough which seemed to go on for ever and the only way I could get any sleep to stop coughing was to use my OH's asthma inhaler. I know you are not supposed to use other people's perscriptions but this seemed to help open airways and let me get some sleep. I also used method of getting honey and lemon cough sweets to suck just after putting head on pillow.
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wispa
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Reged: 16/01/2008
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Loc: Suffolk,
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Drambuie and ice.
The ice cools the throat, the honey soothes the throat, the whisky kills germs, it's thick so it clings to the throat,
and it tastes wonderful
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kitty52
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Reged: 24/10/2009
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Hi aec13cat,
As already mentioned above, I found that the only thing that worked for me was Benylin Dry Coughs Original - you have to ask for it at the pharmacy part of a chemist shop. It is a cough suppressant and can make you drowsy, but when taken at night this is a definite benefit! Hope you feel better soon, it is so miserable when you can't sleep because of a cough.
Kitty x
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