Coughing

Hi Marie,
If you bend over at the waist when you cough it will help to relieve the pressure on the prolapse.
Hope this helps and you are better soon.
Flora

Good tip. It does help and i try to do a kegel at the same time. But when the coughing is bad it is just tough. I could not even feel myself doing a kegel and couldn't do them quick enough to brace the continuous coughing.

But standing in the posture helps with the pressure. Things down there did not have a chance to rest and go back up with all the coughing. So I had constant pressure all day without even being on my feet and I could not sit comfortably in any position.

Marie, just try your best each time you cough. I have to say that i have not seen my prolapses reverse to my "precold" condition but things feel higher when i am cold free and keeping my posture and pelvic exercises. Hope you are feeling better.

Hi Marie,

I definitely agree with Flora's comment about bending at the waist when coughing (which I also do when I sneeze hard). Sneezing hard also sends undue pressure to the area as well. I would also prop your side of the bed up with a pillow UNDER the mattress so that the conjestion doesn't lie in your chest at night, hence you won't cough as much. Also, while lying in bed when you do feel a cough coming (or a sneeze), draw your kness up in a fetal position. That seems to protect the area while in bed. Yes, the bulgy feeling occurs for me too when my colon is full like when I need to go or if I'm constipated. What I've learned is that it's all connected.... You will return to more normal once the coughing stops...don't worry! The same thing happened to me last year, and all was well again once the coughing stopped. I hope that helps and hope you're feeling back to yourself soon. Take good care, April

Hi

I'm half way throught my acupuncture training and heard the following which might be usefull.

I was recently taught the chinese biological clock and the time of the lung is 3-5 am. (I.E That is the time of this organs predominance.)

The teacher mentioned this for diagnosis purposes, saying that those with weakened lung energy often wake up coughing at this time or at the same time during the day. (Just as those with weakened liver energy can wake with headaches at the liver time 1-3 am.)

Anyway, i do think acupuncture is very helpfull for coughing, as i've had this done a few times during bad colds when i had to fly the next day or was really fed up with the dam thing :)

Pear juice is incredibly soothing for dryness of the bronchial passage. 'The lungs hate dryness' is a chinese saying and from this prespective coughing is viewed as a way for the lungs to try generate some minorly soothing mucous. You can get pure pear juice in health food shops - it's very gloopy.(if the cough is productive then don't take the pear juice).

There's also a very good mix of herbs for coughs made by Alfred Vogel which is called 'Bronchisan' in europe. Ask the health food practitioner in a good health food shop if this is suitable for you're case.

Also it might be usefull to steam with an antibacterial essentiall oil that is good for the respiratory system, eucylyptus anin and tea tree are recommended by patricia Davies, an expert in this field. She also suggests massage with these oils (mixed in an oil base).

I think i wrote some of this elsewhere so sorrty for the repetition but i do know it's hard to root out info sometimes.

Best wishes

Anne-helen

Dear Marie

Buteyko breathing has dramatically decreased the amount of coughing I do. I learnt it early this year. It is an asthma treatment technique but also seems to work for reducing or stopping repeated, ordinary coughing and repeated sneezing.

I was diagnosed with asthma about three years ago. I had previously always had weeks and weeks of coughing after a cold or flu, then one year it developed into serious wheezing and just did not go away.

One of the principles of Buteyko breathing is that we breathe too much, and we breathe too much through our mouths, ie hyperventilation. I have been able to almost eliminate wheezing completely, and can now prevent a coughing fit in the middle of the night, which used to be a frequent occurrence. My husband has been able to eliminate sneezing fits caused by very sensitive nasal passages.

I think that too much air passing over the mucous-type membranes that line the respiratory passages dries them out, and in the process, that more irritants are absorbed by them than they can handle, so they become inflammed. This causes them to produce more mucous to try and keep themselves moist, and to heal the inflammation. Therefore, you start coughing. By the way, when we get a head cold, we tend to breathe through the mouth all the time.

So by breathing less, the linings dry out less and less irritants get in to the linings. The inflammation dies down, the mucous decreases, and both wet and dry coughing becomes less.

You need to learn the various techniques from a registered practitioner, but there is a lot of information out there to help you understand the technical side of it, and lots of testimonials. Just google "buteyko asthma".

The other thing I have noticed is that when we adopt Wholewoman posture we tend to fill our lungs naturally when we stand tall with the chin tucked in. So we don't have to take such deep breaths.

Hope this is some use to you. This isn't a paid ad, but Buteyko breathing has changed my life, as I no longer have to worry about the coughing worsening my prolapses.

Cheers

Louise