concerned about a cough

kdholt
kdholt Member Posts: 229
edited June 2014 in Not Diagnosed With a Recurrence or Metastases but Concerned

Okay I am really getting paranoid. I never used to be this way before bc. Everytime I get something I think I ha ve mets. I have had a dry tickle cough for 4 weeks. Not sure what it is.I am on tamox. and have read a cough is a se of tamox, also it could be allergy. But how do you know if it is serious? Help! I am losing my mind.

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  • hollyann
    hollyann Member Posts: 2,992
    edited June 2009

    Tamoxifen can cause chronic coughing...I think it is a dry cough ...I have a cough from Arimidex...I thought just like you at first too till I called the onc.....You may want to call your onc just to put your mind at ease.......(((((((KDHOLT))))))..........

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  • kdholt
    kdholt Member Posts: 229
    edited June 2009

    Thanks Hollyann, I have been on tamoxifen for a year and just developed this cough recently, but I also quit paxil at the same time so am not sure if that is causing tamox. to effect me differently. I know I am more paranoid now too!!!! Is it possible to develop a se to a medication after being on it a year?

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  • hollyann
    hollyann Member Posts: 2,992
    edited June 2009

    kd anything is possibler with these drugs.......It could be just allergies too like you said in your post.....I developed my cough ovr 6 months after starting Arimidex so who knows?....I wish you good luck and please call your onc if you feel you need to.......It sure can't hurt to call.......

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  • nelia48
    nelia48 Member Posts: 539
    edited June 2009

    I also have a dry, tickle in my throat from the Arimidex.  I'm also on BP meds, and one of them has listed coughing as a side effect.  I would mention the cough to your onc and see what he says.  Mine always listens to my chest.  Since mine seems to be this tickle in my throat and not deep from the lungs, I don't tend to worry about it.  Nuisence though!

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  • mmm5
    mmm5 Member Posts: 1,470
    edited June 2009

    There is a virus going around this spring/summer that the cough lingers for 6-8 weeks and is exacerbated by allergies. Usually like Nelia wrote Lung mets would be a feeling in the lungs not in throat.

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  • Shirlrae
    Shirlrae Member Posts: 23
    edited June 2010
    I came down with a cough while on Arimidex. I have now switched to Tamoxifen and it is much worse, my voice also gets raspey and somewhat of a sore throat. It sometimes is a deep cough but the majority of the time it is a throat tickle. Oncologist seemed to dismiss it.
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  • carcharm
    carcharm Member Posts: 486
    edited June 2010

    Did you have chemo? Are you in chemoause? What I have found is that all you mucous membranes-vaginal-throat-eyes- become very dry with meno/chemopause. I too have a cough and things get stuck when they never used to.

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  • Shirlrae
    Shirlrae Member Posts: 23
    edited July 2010
    I did not have chemo,but this cough drives me crazy, like you sometimes I have a hard time swallowing. I have read that Tamox can cause chronic coughing.
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