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Cough, made worse by lying down
Cough, made worse by lying down
Dr. Geoffrey Rutledge reviewed this
39 year experience in Internal Medicine
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A 42-year old female asked:
I have common cold, cough is more serious when lying down for some minutes. Worse symptoms in the evening hours. Why?
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A 29-year old female asked:
Hi, I am female. I am having a pain in my upper rt side of my abdomen and my rib cage. The pain is getting worse by cough, deep breath or lying down.
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A 26-year old female asked:
I have a dry cough and pain in centre of chest, cough worse when sitting/lying down, pain dull and sharpens when cough/ breathe in deeply?
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A 19-year old female asked:
Hi I have had pain since thursday in my chest and ribs and diaphragm i have a cough finding it hard to bring phlegm up worse lying down what is this?
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A 42-year old male asked:
I have Costochondritis from years of working out. Went a little too heavy last Friday. Having sternum pain hurts to the touch and in occasion hurts when I cough. Even lying down makes it worse. Ice or heat therapy for it?
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A 25-year old female asked:
I have chest pain under my left breast. Pinching when I breath deep and move, worse lying down. No feverI take Qvar daily and had serve cough in Dec. ?
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A 28-year old female asked:
Productive cough for week with metallic taste in mouth and wheeze on exhale. worse when lying down. no fever. require doctor visit? started like cold.
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A 39-year old asked:
Why does my cough get much worse when I lay down?
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A 22-year old female asked:
It's been a week in a half and this cold gets better than it gets worse! It's going up and down with a persistent congested cough & chest pain?!
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A 30-year old male asked:
Hi. been having sharp chest pain on the left side for few days now. it gets worse if i cough sneez or bend down to pick up something.
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A member asked about a male:
My 2 yr old is stuffy with think green stuff, woke up today with hives, getting worse now, and has a dry cough when i laid him down for bed.
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A 22-year old male asked:
Squishy jelly movable things on both sides of trachea tight feeling. over a year and cough worse when laying down. Had larynscope and seen Drs Cancer?
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A 33-year old male asked:
I have had the flu for 7 days, the cough is still there and it is choking me and I can't breathe it's especially worse when laying down, whats wrong?
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A 51-year old female asked:
I have a terrible cough that produces either very little phlegm or a mouth full of watery phlegm. Laying down seems to make it worse.?
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A 19-year old male asked about a 48-year old male:
Coughing that brings up mucus, cough in the chest, over 6 months, slight fatigue, talking causes coughing, laying down makes it worse, what may it be?
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A female asked:
Persistent hacking cough for~2yrs. Severe whooping cough (1xmonth) Lately, chin itches with cough; cough worse at night;unrelated tolying down. Diagnosis?
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A 23-year old female asked:
Bad cough and producing yellow sputum. Notice wheezing from my chest when I laugh or lie down. Cough worse when laying down. What should I take?
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A male asked:
I have had a dry wheezing cough for 5 weeks...worse when I lay down to sleep...have albuterol and now prednisone, no help..never have smoked..now what?
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A 37-year old female asked:
I have a cough that started a few days ago, it gets worse when I laying down, sore throat aswell ?
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A 20-year old female asked:
I have upper abdomen pain for three days, I don't know what it is. It stops when I lie down, and gets worse when I sneeze, cough, hiccup, or yawn.
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A female asked:
How can I stop post-nasal drip? I have continual drainage down the back of my throat which causes me to cough. How can I get it to stop? No cold or anything. Good health otherwise. If it wouldn't drain i wouldn't cough. Worse at night as it feels lik
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A 22-year old female asked:
Last 3 days, pain in my chest when breathing, when i sleep/lay down i feel and hear a gurgling sound that sounds like its coming from upper chest and throat. Cough during day but worse at night. What could it be? & medicine to help?
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A 36-year old male asked:
Hi Doc. I have a breathless problem of which at night i am unable to breath. I cough, i have sinuses and when i cough there is a wheezing sound on my lungs that irritates me and lots of mucus on my lungs. I get worse when i lie down. What's the prblm?
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A 43-year old male asked:
I have severe right shoulder pain that gets worse when I cough and radiates down my right arm, causing numbness. Is this likely 2 be lung cancer ?
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A 34-year old female asked:
Irritating dry cough for 7weeks after cold, tickly feeling in throat, wheezing,no blood or phlegm, worse when lay down.Dr said chest clear, is it bad?
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A 35-year old female asked:
A sharp pain on my right side hip bone (right next to tailbone). Worse when laying down and sneeze/cough. Why? Also get tingling in right leg 1 toe.
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A 16-year old female asked:
Sharp pains in chest pain in shoulder blade down to bottom ribs , cough , spit up is almost yellow , sore to breathe pain gets worse with deep breath?
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A 22-year old female asked:
I have a cough,gets worse when I lay down &a sore, red throat. It hurts to swallow. I have green mucus in the corner of my left eye almost constantly?
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A 30-year old female asked:
Hello,I have a sore throat, a slight cough and a bit of a runny nose. Sore throat has lasted for the past 4 days, and is worse at night when I lay down. No fever, no sinus pressure. Is this something to be concerned about?
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A 50-year old female asked:
I am experiencing cough (worsened by: lying down, at night) (quality: chronic cough) .
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