30 weeks pregnant, sore throat and now a really bad chesty cough, kept me awake all night and possibly everyone else :( also ribs hurt a little now when coughing so hard. I’ve got paracetamol, hot honey and lemon drink and put my head in
A hot bowl of Vicks! Any other suggestions to help? :( so tricky when we can’t take much. Slept most of the day today on and off, and not looking forward to another evening of no sleep and all coughs
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I'm 32 wks and have had exactly the same, my chest is awful. X
🥹 how long have you had it for? Mine started Monday when I woke up not feeling myself. Xx
I had this about a month ago! It was HORRIFIC! Lasted about 2 weeks 🫣 I managed to get through about 8days until I really was at my wits end. I was hardly sleeping, really worried about the constant strain on my belly from coughing ect.
Although I was just using hot lemon in water and honey. I then did some research and the cough medicine Benylin (orange box) states it’s safe for pregnancy and breastfeeding so I started taking that once or twice a day just to try and shift it abit quicker!
Definitely do your research but it definitely helped me and baby boy is perfectly fine x
I’ve had a cold since last week and now I am coughing all the time, it’s so painful I feel like my abs have been ripped apart (I really hope I don’t get diastasis recti)
oh noooo :( I’m in wizard of oz in Grantham this week and had to miss todays 2 performances to just sleep and rest.
Oooh really??? I may get myself some tomorrow if I can. I’m not near a shop where I am staying unless I drive and really not in the mood. Just had a nice cold ice cream for my throat. Xx
yeah I didn’t have the rib pain yesterday it’s started today. Oooh what’s that? I’ve never heard of it x
it started on Mon but properly hit hard today, was up all night struggling to breath x
:( oh god bless you…. I feel like i need to sleep sat up but how can you do that 🤣
I had this 2 weeks ago, rib pain and laying down was the worst. In truth I didn’t take anything except having baths and lots of saline nasal spray which helped clear airways and throat. Salt water gargles also came in handy if you can stomach them, it took a week to shift xx
the rib pain really isn’t nice is it! As if coughing isn’t bad enough. Yeah I don’t mind the salt gargles :) I’ll do that before bed. It’s just the coughing at night when I want to sleep xxxx
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