Well, hmm. Months of a hacking cough, now bad enough to be painful and debilitating, not to mention sleep-depriving. The oncologist chimed in unhelpfully last week with, "Well, you're almost done with chemo. It'll go away." (Note to those lucky enough not to have cancer: If ever you're stricken with this, don't take issues and side effects to your oncologist. He doesn't care about your aches and pains, no matter how bad they are. He cares about your blood work and whether of not you need a transfusion this week. Go to your gp. Trust me on this.)
..which I did, finally, after remembering that the toddler was hacking two weeks ago and put on an albuterol inhaler. She recovered quickly, of course. Me, not so much.
"Well," she said," we don't know that you DON'T have pertussis," and promptly prescribed antibiotics and cough syrup w codeine.
Local gp: 1
Uncle Trog, who recommended guifenesin, which really helped: 1
Oncologist: 0
Interesting article on pertussis (whooping cough) in adults is here.
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