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[wanderlost]

I'm sure this has come up before, but I am sitting here doing the vest - which never makes me cough - and wondering if I cough more/less/the same as everyone else?

So tell me about your cough - how much would you average you cough in a day? When do you cough most? What kind if cough is it?

I would say, if I added it all up, I probably cough for 2 hours a day...? that doesn't seem like enough because I cough a lot - at least it seems that way to me.

I cough - always first thing in the morning - wake up - sit up - cough cough cough
I cough a ton with the hypertonic saline/vest combo, but hardly at all with the vest alone

I cough everytime I laugh, often when I yell

I cough anytime I do exercise - even walking up stairs (but usually if I keep exercising I get a second wind and then can continue to exercise without coughing much more)

I cough when I lay down at night

I cough when i go out into the cold or humid

um....plus I just randomly cough

My cough is usually like a car engine revving up until it then sounds like a 100 year old man who has been smoking for 90 of those years - loose wet and phlegmy

<img src="i/expressions/coughing.gif" border="0">

 

[wanderlost]

I'm sure this has come up before, but I am sitting here doing the vest - which never makes me cough - and wondering if I cough more/less/the same as everyone else?

So tell me about your cough - how much would you average you cough in a day? When do you cough most? What kind if cough is it?

I would say, if I added it all up, I probably cough for 2 hours a day...? that doesn't seem like enough because I cough a lot - at least it seems that way to me.

I cough - always first thing in the morning - wake up - sit up - cough cough cough
I cough a ton with the hypertonic saline/vest combo, but hardly at all with the vest alone

I cough everytime I laugh, often when I yell

I cough anytime I do exercise - even walking up stairs (but usually if I keep exercising I get a second wind and then can continue to exercise without coughing much more)

I cough when I lay down at night

I cough when i go out into the cold or humid

um....plus I just randomly cough

My cough is usually like a car engine revving up until it then sounds like a 100 year old man who has been smoking for 90 of those years - loose wet and phlegmy

<img src="i/expressions/coughing.gif" border="0">

 

[wanderlost]

I'm sure this has come up before, but I am sitting here doing the vest - which never makes me cough - and wondering if I cough more/less/the same as everyone else?

So tell me about your cough - how much would you average you cough in a day? When do you cough most? What kind if cough is it?

I would say, if I added it all up, I probably cough for 2 hours a day...? that doesn't seem like enough because I cough a lot - at least it seems that way to me.

I cough - always first thing in the morning - wake up - sit up - cough cough cough
I cough a ton with the hypertonic saline/vest combo, but hardly at all with the vest alone

I cough everytime I laugh, often when I yell

I cough anytime I do exercise - even walking up stairs (but usually if I keep exercising I get a second wind and then can continue to exercise without coughing much more)

I cough when I lay down at night

I cough when i go out into the cold or humid

um....plus I just randomly cough

My cough is usually like a car engine revving up until it then sounds like a 100 year old man who has been smoking for 90 of those years - loose wet and phlegmy

<img src="i/expressions/coughing.gif" border="0">

 

[wanderlost]

I'm sure this has come up before, but I am sitting here doing the vest - which never makes me cough - and wondering if I cough more/less/the same as everyone else?

So tell me about your cough - how much would you average you cough in a day? When do you cough most? What kind if cough is it?

I would say, if I added it all up, I probably cough for 2 hours a day...? that doesn't seem like enough because I cough a lot - at least it seems that way to me.

I cough - always first thing in the morning - wake up - sit up - cough cough cough
I cough a ton with the hypertonic saline/vest combo, but hardly at all with the vest alone

I cough everytime I laugh, often when I yell

I cough anytime I do exercise - even walking up stairs (but usually if I keep exercising I get a second wind and then can continue to exercise without coughing much more)

I cough when I lay down at night

I cough when i go out into the cold or humid

um....plus I just randomly cough

My cough is usually like a car engine revving up until it then sounds like a 100 year old man who has been smoking for 90 of those years - loose wet and phlegmy

<img src="i/expressions/coughing.gif" border="0">

 

[wanderlost]

I'm sure this has come up before, but I am sitting here doing the vest - which never makes me cough - and wondering if I cough more/less/the same as everyone else?

So tell me about your cough - how much would you average you cough in a day? When do you cough most? What kind if cough is it?

I would say, if I added it all up, I probably cough for 2 hours a day...? that doesn't seem like enough because I cough a lot - at least it seems that way to me.

I cough - always first thing in the morning - wake up - sit up - cough cough cough
I cough a ton with the hypertonic saline/vest combo, but hardly at all with the vest alone

I cough everytime I laugh, often when I yell

I cough anytime I do exercise - even walking up stairs (but usually if I keep exercising I get a second wind and then can continue to exercise without coughing much more)

I cough when I lay down at night

I cough when i go out into the cold or humid

um....plus I just randomly cough

My cough is usually like a car engine revving up until it then sounds like a 100 year old man who has been smoking for 90 of those years - loose wet and phlegmy

<img src="i/expressions/coughing.gif" border="0">

 

[princessjdc]

I rarely cough at all but sometimes I do cough when I laugh but not often only when sick or congested or something.

When I do my vest I never cough I always make myself cough or huff cough

hypertonic saline use to make me cough but now only once in awhile

I never cough during exercise unless I make myself
Never cough in the morning or at night or when I lay down, I very rarely cough unless i have a cold or congested or something.

The doc always has me pick 1-10 on how much I cough 10 being the worst and I always say 1, their has been a few times where I would say 3 or 5 but I cant remember when the last time that was when I said that.

Oh and when I do cough it either sounds dry or wet/mucousy.

 

[princessjdc]

I rarely cough at all but sometimes I do cough when I laugh but not often only when sick or congested or something.

When I do my vest I never cough I always make myself cough or huff cough

hypertonic saline use to make me cough but now only once in awhile

I never cough during exercise unless I make myself
Never cough in the morning or at night or when I lay down, I very rarely cough unless i have a cold or congested or something.

The doc always has me pick 1-10 on how much I cough 10 being the worst and I always say 1, their has been a few times where I would say 3 or 5 but I cant remember when the last time that was when I said that.

Oh and when I do cough it either sounds dry or wet/mucousy.

 

[princessjdc]

I rarely cough at all but sometimes I do cough when I laugh but not often only when sick or congested or something.

When I do my vest I never cough I always make myself cough or huff cough

hypertonic saline use to make me cough but now only once in awhile

I never cough during exercise unless I make myself
Never cough in the morning or at night or when I lay down, I very rarely cough unless i have a cold or congested or something.

The doc always has me pick 1-10 on how much I cough 10 being the worst and I always say 1, their has been a few times where I would say 3 or 5 but I cant remember when the last time that was when I said that.

Oh and when I do cough it either sounds dry or wet/mucousy.

 

[princessjdc]

I rarely cough at all but sometimes I do cough when I laugh but not often only when sick or congested or something.

When I do my vest I never cough I always make myself cough or huff cough

hypertonic saline use to make me cough but now only once in awhile

I never cough during exercise unless I make myself
Never cough in the morning or at night or when I lay down, I very rarely cough unless i have a cold or congested or something.

The doc always has me pick 1-10 on how much I cough 10 being the worst and I always say 1, their has been a few times where I would say 3 or 5 but I cant remember when the last time that was when I said that.

Oh and when I do cough it either sounds dry or wet/mucousy.

 

[princessjdc]

I rarely cough at all but sometimes I do cough when I laugh but not often only when sick or congested or something.

When I do my vest I never cough I always make myself cough or huff cough

hypertonic saline use to make me cough but now only once in awhile

I never cough during exercise unless I make myself
Never cough in the morning or at night or when I lay down, I very rarely cough unless i have a cold or congested or something.

The doc always has me pick 1-10 on how much I cough 10 being the worst and I always say 1, their has been a few times where I would say 3 or 5 but I cant remember when the last time that was when I said that.

Oh and when I do cough it either sounds dry or wet/mucousy.

 

[Wheezie]

Sounds pretty similar to me - I cough first thing in the morning; I cough a lot with the albuterol/atrovent neb combined with the vest, but vest alone doesn't make me cough too much (UNLESS I really concentrate and do deep breathing at the same time, that really gets me hacking); HTS doesn't make me cough a lot, so I must be doing something wrong - it hasn't been the wonder drug I thought it'd be from reading everyone's raves about it here; I rarely allow myself to laugh because it makes me cough so much and then I get annoyed; I cough when I sing, lol; cough when I lay down, especially on my back (at night or anytime); cough when I exercise or walk briskly or take the stairs at work; cough a lot when it's cold...

If I'm really mucous-ie, my cough sounds how you described. But sometimes it's just a dry, hacking, annoying cough. Sometimes it also goes and goes and goes and I almost think I'm going to pass out because I need to breathe in, but I can't and then I have to take this huge, deep breathe to compensate and it really draws unwanted attention (and that's usually when some stranger asks, "are you okay?" as if I can really answer when I can't even stop coughing long enough to take a breath!!) Ah, the joys of CF...

 

[Wheezie]

Sounds pretty similar to me - I cough first thing in the morning; I cough a lot with the albuterol/atrovent neb combined with the vest, but vest alone doesn't make me cough too much (UNLESS I really concentrate and do deep breathing at the same time, that really gets me hacking); HTS doesn't make me cough a lot, so I must be doing something wrong - it hasn't been the wonder drug I thought it'd be from reading everyone's raves about it here; I rarely allow myself to laugh because it makes me cough so much and then I get annoyed; I cough when I sing, lol; cough when I lay down, especially on my back (at night or anytime); cough when I exercise or walk briskly or take the stairs at work; cough a lot when it's cold...

If I'm really mucous-ie, my cough sounds how you described. But sometimes it's just a dry, hacking, annoying cough. Sometimes it also goes and goes and goes and I almost think I'm going to pass out because I need to breathe in, but I can't and then I have to take this huge, deep breathe to compensate and it really draws unwanted attention (and that's usually when some stranger asks, "are you okay?" as if I can really answer when I can't even stop coughing long enough to take a breath!!) Ah, the joys of CF...

 

[Wheezie]

Sounds pretty similar to me - I cough first thing in the morning; I cough a lot with the albuterol/atrovent neb combined with the vest, but vest alone doesn't make me cough too much (UNLESS I really concentrate and do deep breathing at the same time, that really gets me hacking); HTS doesn't make me cough a lot, so I must be doing something wrong - it hasn't been the wonder drug I thought it'd be from reading everyone's raves about it here; I rarely allow myself to laugh because it makes me cough so much and then I get annoyed; I cough when I sing, lol; cough when I lay down, especially on my back (at night or anytime); cough when I exercise or walk briskly or take the stairs at work; cough a lot when it's cold...

If I'm really mucous-ie, my cough sounds how you described. But sometimes it's just a dry, hacking, annoying cough. Sometimes it also goes and goes and goes and I almost think I'm going to pass out because I need to breathe in, but I can't and then I have to take this huge, deep breathe to compensate and it really draws unwanted attention (and that's usually when some stranger asks, "are you okay?" as if I can really answer when I can't even stop coughing long enough to take a breath!!) Ah, the joys of CF...

 

[Wheezie]

Sounds pretty similar to me - I cough first thing in the morning; I cough a lot with the albuterol/atrovent neb combined with the vest, but vest alone doesn't make me cough too much (UNLESS I really concentrate and do deep breathing at the same time, that really gets me hacking); HTS doesn't make me cough a lot, so I must be doing something wrong - it hasn't been the wonder drug I thought it'd be from reading everyone's raves about it here; I rarely allow myself to laugh because it makes me cough so much and then I get annoyed; I cough when I sing, lol; cough when I lay down, especially on my back (at night or anytime); cough when I exercise or walk briskly or take the stairs at work; cough a lot when it's cold...

If I'm really mucous-ie, my cough sounds how you described. But sometimes it's just a dry, hacking, annoying cough. Sometimes it also goes and goes and goes and I almost think I'm going to pass out because I need to breathe in, but I can't and then I have to take this huge, deep breathe to compensate and it really draws unwanted attention (and that's usually when some stranger asks, "are you okay?" as if I can really answer when I can't even stop coughing long enough to take a breath!!) Ah, the joys of CF...

 

[Wheezie]

Sounds pretty similar to me - I cough first thing in the morning; I cough a lot with the albuterol/atrovent neb combined with the vest, but vest alone doesn't make me cough too much (UNLESS I really concentrate and do deep breathing at the same time, that really gets me hacking); HTS doesn't make me cough a lot, so I must be doing something wrong - it hasn't been the wonder drug I thought it'd be from reading everyone's raves about it here; I rarely allow myself to laugh because it makes me cough so much and then I get annoyed; I cough when I sing, lol; cough when I lay down, especially on my back (at night or anytime); cough when I exercise or walk briskly or take the stairs at work; cough a lot when it's cold...

If I'm really mucous-ie, my cough sounds how you described. But sometimes it's just a dry, hacking, annoying cough. Sometimes it also goes and goes and goes and I almost think I'm going to pass out because I need to breathe in, but I can't and then I have to take this huge, deep breathe to compensate and it really draws unwanted attention (and that's usually when some stranger asks, "are you okay?" as if I can really answer when I can't even stop coughing long enough to take a breath!!) Ah, the joys of CF...

 

[jodijp]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>Wheezie</b></i>
(and that's usually when some stranger asks, "are you okay?" as if I can really answer when I can't even stop coughing long enough to take a breath!!).</end quote></div>

Don't ya just hate that question! <img src="i/expressions/coughing.gif" border="0">

 

[jodijp]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>Wheezie</b></i>
(and that's usually when some stranger asks, "are you okay?" as if I can really answer when I can't even stop coughing long enough to take a breath!!).</end quote></div>

Don't ya just hate that question! <img src="i/expressions/coughing.gif" border="0">

 

[jodijp]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>Wheezie</b></i>
(and that's usually when some stranger asks, "are you okay?" as if I can really answer when I can't even stop coughing long enough to take a breath!!).</end quote></div>

Don't ya just hate that question! <img src="i/expressions/coughing.gif" border="0">

 

[jodijp]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>Wheezie</b></i>
(and that's usually when some stranger asks, "are you okay?" as if I can really answer when I can't even stop coughing long enough to take a breath!!).</end quote>

Don't ya just hate that question! <img src="i/expressions/coughing.gif" border="0">

 

[jodijp]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>Wheezie</b></i>
(and that's usually when some stranger asks, "are you okay?" as if I can really answer when I can't even stop coughing long enough to take a breath!!).</end quote>

Don't ya just hate that question! <img src="i/expressions/coughing.gif" border="0">