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Right side sleeping may be the major cause in most cases of relatively healthy people.
This Is Why You Should Sleep on Your Left Side (Backed by Science)
Once you know what to search for there are lots of articles and pics to find on this matter.
Also, left side sleeping dramatically reduces gastroparesis - where your organs press against your diaphragm and lungs making it hard to breathe and leads to mouth breathing. This is a reason one needs to lose weight and un-bloat.
Additionally, there is something called "Chronic Cough Hypersensitivity Syndrome" Chronic cough hypersensitivity syndrome
There are lots of medical links on this also. Basically, the vocal chord nerves become super sensitive and things that would not normally cause a tickle or cough actually do. Things like food, or salt, or cold air, or getting in a vehicle, or any drink or change in environment can then cause the cough. And then, one cough leads to another due to CO2 depletion/hyperventilation and before you know it, you are choking and gagging and spitting up crud, or worse, or almost passing out while driving down the road blah blah blah nightmare to the max.
I think a lot of peeps have a leftover cough from the flu or cold or whatever, and it just seems to last forever. This is what is going on. The nerves get hyper-sensitized and never calm down. I seem to remember reading that the medical docs will prescribe gabapentin to calm the nerves. To me, this seems like using a nuclear bomb to kill a gnat. I haven't done anything but read the side effects of that drug and I wouldn't take it. I think they use it for epileptic seizures.
Anyway, that is why the benzocaine throat lozenges are on the list. My theory was to deaden the nerves continuously for as long as it takes and maybe that would stop the hyper-sensitivity. So far, it is working. I guess one could chomp on ice all night and day too. You can also drop some ambesol down your throat too.
Basically, one cough leads to another, so the focus must be to stop the first one, if possible. So, making sure one's mouth stays shut when eating, drinking, driving, walking, exercising, sleeping and talking is crucial to controlling the hypersensitive nerve problem.
My cough started in November 1997 after a cold. It got a thousand times worse in July 2007 when I had heart/colon cancer/lung/got septic/nearly died collapse. Now, it is 99% gone. Only took 20 years.
This Is Why You Should Sleep on Your Left Side (Backed by Science)
Once you know what to search for there are lots of articles and pics to find on this matter.
Also, left side sleeping dramatically reduces gastroparesis - where your organs press against your diaphragm and lungs making it hard to breathe and leads to mouth breathing. This is a reason one needs to lose weight and un-bloat.
Additionally, there is something called "Chronic Cough Hypersensitivity Syndrome" Chronic cough hypersensitivity syndrome
There are lots of medical links on this also. Basically, the vocal chord nerves become super sensitive and things that would not normally cause a tickle or cough actually do. Things like food, or salt, or cold air, or getting in a vehicle, or any drink or change in environment can then cause the cough. And then, one cough leads to another due to CO2 depletion/hyperventilation and before you know it, you are choking and gagging and spitting up crud, or worse, or almost passing out while driving down the road blah blah blah nightmare to the max.
I think a lot of peeps have a leftover cough from the flu or cold or whatever, and it just seems to last forever. This is what is going on. The nerves get hyper-sensitized and never calm down. I seem to remember reading that the medical docs will prescribe gabapentin to calm the nerves. To me, this seems like using a nuclear bomb to kill a gnat. I haven't done anything but read the side effects of that drug and I wouldn't take it. I think they use it for epileptic seizures.
Anyway, that is why the benzocaine throat lozenges are on the list. My theory was to deaden the nerves continuously for as long as it takes and maybe that would stop the hyper-sensitivity. So far, it is working. I guess one could chomp on ice all night and day too. You can also drop some ambesol down your throat too.
Basically, one cough leads to another, so the focus must be to stop the first one, if possible. So, making sure one's mouth stays shut when eating, drinking, driving, walking, exercising, sleeping and talking is crucial to controlling the hypersensitive nerve problem.
My cough started in November 1997 after a cold. It got a thousand times worse in July 2007 when I had heart/colon cancer/lung/got septic/nearly died collapse. Now, it is 99% gone. Only took 20 years.