The Cough Chronicles: Patient Stories
If you have chronic cough, you may find support in hearing from others living with the condition.
“Chronic cough has changed the way I do just about everything.”
Ellen B.
Shares her chronic cough story
"For me, coughing can be an everyday thing, many times a day. And I’m constantly apologizing for something that I can’t control."
Judy C.
Shares her chronic cough story
"When I finally saw a doctor who told me I have chronic cough… I said to him, ‘You really listened to me."
Kris B.
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Patient Spotlight: Candis S.
By the time Candis S. was 51, she had been living with chronic cough for over ten years. “I first started coughing in 2009. When I retired two years later, my cough was more frequent, happening every time I laughed or whenever I was in cold air,” she says.
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Patient Spotlight: Dotty W.
Dotty W., a trained jazz singer and music teacher, has been living with chronic cough for more than 35 years. “It was around the mid-1980s when I began to have a consistent cough and started visiting doctor after doctor,” she recalls. “I learned I had to be my own advocate. I did a lot of research and investigating to learn about chronic cough and what I could do next.”
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