Frog In My Throat
I love giving out health reports on my blog. (Easier
than talking to mom about them on the phone). Also, I
have been told my health reports are fairly
entertaining... so here goes.
Today I have an appointment with the doctor about the cough I've had for over a month now. For the most part, I feel fine during the day (I cough less), but my nights are punctuated with the singing of birds and crickets in my throat (cough cough cough)... at some point in the night, I begin to croak like a frog and it becomes unbearable. At this point, Tapi (who otherwise sleeps enviably well through my bird songs) wakes up and sits there staring at me 'in concern n all'. We then walk to the living room; he makes me tea; and I cough and read a book while he waits for my throat/lungs to settle! (which it invariably does even before I get to drinking tea). Then I get carried away by the book I am reading... and while I still cough intermittently, I could care less that I am coughing (much like during the day)!
So I figured, it may not be a morning-night thing after all. It is a vertical-horizontal thing. But, then again sometimes I am horizontal and I don't cough. It is a mystery to me how it appears and disappears the way it does. It is not quite clear to me if I cough more when I am outdoors, or running! Although I do cough sometimes and have thrown up once while/after running! It is all very puzzling to me.
Lately, I cough every time I change position. Like when I go from sitting to standing, from standing to walking... when I toss and turn in my sleep, when I open the window, when I close the window. It is as if every action I take is auspiciously marked with the echo of my throat.
Last month, I had deadly headaches all through the day, my jaw would vibrate every time I closed my mouth (It also locks up), and I would feel unbearable pain in my ears with a ringing sound, followed by my nose feeling pressure and I thought I showed all the classic symptoms of some rare unidentifiable disease. Strangely enough, if I think it is some rare and unidentifiable disease, I avoid going to the doctor lest he think this is all sham and too unreal... and wolf down sudafeds and the like until the symptoms vanish! Eventually everything else subsided except this stupid unrelenting cough.
Now when I go to the doctor, I won't have the drama of last month. I don't cough as much during the day and can't recreate my night scenario. So I am going to look incredibly stupid to him! Perhaps it will help if I tell him that Tapi thinks I am allergic to him, cos the cough only happens at night!
Do you think my doctor should read my post? I am tempted to give him a list of possibilities I dug up from the net. TMJ Disorder (lock jaw n all), Cough-Variant Asthma (which I was diagnosed with last year), Sinusitis (possible?), Spring Allergy (pollen in the air n all)... I wonder what my favorite doctor cousin Sveta thinks. I'm going to forward this post to her.
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Back from the doctor. Asthma it is. Hail WebMD, FamilyDoctor and Google :)
Today I have an appointment with the doctor about the cough I've had for over a month now. For the most part, I feel fine during the day (I cough less), but my nights are punctuated with the singing of birds and crickets in my throat (cough cough cough)... at some point in the night, I begin to croak like a frog and it becomes unbearable. At this point, Tapi (who otherwise sleeps enviably well through my bird songs) wakes up and sits there staring at me 'in concern n all'. We then walk to the living room; he makes me tea; and I cough and read a book while he waits for my throat/lungs to settle! (which it invariably does even before I get to drinking tea). Then I get carried away by the book I am reading... and while I still cough intermittently, I could care less that I am coughing (much like during the day)!
So I figured, it may not be a morning-night thing after all. It is a vertical-horizontal thing. But, then again sometimes I am horizontal and I don't cough. It is a mystery to me how it appears and disappears the way it does. It is not quite clear to me if I cough more when I am outdoors, or running! Although I do cough sometimes and have thrown up once while/after running! It is all very puzzling to me.
Lately, I cough every time I change position. Like when I go from sitting to standing, from standing to walking... when I toss and turn in my sleep, when I open the window, when I close the window. It is as if every action I take is auspiciously marked with the echo of my throat.
Last month, I had deadly headaches all through the day, my jaw would vibrate every time I closed my mouth (It also locks up), and I would feel unbearable pain in my ears with a ringing sound, followed by my nose feeling pressure and I thought I showed all the classic symptoms of some rare unidentifiable disease. Strangely enough, if I think it is some rare and unidentifiable disease, I avoid going to the doctor lest he think this is all sham and too unreal... and wolf down sudafeds and the like until the symptoms vanish! Eventually everything else subsided except this stupid unrelenting cough.
Now when I go to the doctor, I won't have the drama of last month. I don't cough as much during the day and can't recreate my night scenario. So I am going to look incredibly stupid to him! Perhaps it will help if I tell him that Tapi thinks I am allergic to him, cos the cough only happens at night!
Do you think my doctor should read my post? I am tempted to give him a list of possibilities I dug up from the net. TMJ Disorder (lock jaw n all), Cough-Variant Asthma (which I was diagnosed with last year), Sinusitis (possible?), Spring Allergy (pollen in the air n all)... I wonder what my favorite doctor cousin Sveta thinks. I'm going to forward this post to her.
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Back from the doctor. Asthma it is. Hail WebMD, FamilyDoctor and Google :)
