I have a periodic dry cough with costo, does anyone else have this symptom?
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I know heavy coughing can cause costochondritis, but I don't normally cough at all. I was diagnosed with costo due to some "heaviness" in my chest and sore ribs.
But I find that one way I know I have a bout of costo is when suddenly I'll just cough. It's a single cough, one dry hack. And then maybe an hour or two hours later, another. Then maybe not for a few days. It lasts as long as I have the bout. It rarely happens when I'm lying down.
On one hand, it doesn't seem like an odd symptom, considering a lot of the ribs are right over the lungs. On the other hand, I don't see it as a symptom anywhere. On yet another hand, I never cough otherwise. But the bout I'm having currently started about six weeks ago and I've had this cough I described for that period of time.
In the last six weeks, I was at the doctor on an unrelated issue. She checked my breathing and everything was normal. And she said that coughing isn't a symptom of costochondritis and could be environmental or something else. Yet I always have it with bouts of costo.
Does anyone else get a cough as a symptom? Or is it just me and it must be something else? It would put my mind at ease to know I'm not the only one...
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