Coughing... :(

I was having cough during my early pregnancy. It was bad.. lasted quite some time; almost 3 months, i think.. until CNY over, I was still coughing. It was the dry type. No phlegm, no sore throat.

Spoken to my gynae during my next visit on 2 Jan 09. He refused to give me anything but some advice on drinking more water and no cold stuff AND to take "pi pa kao". It didn't help... I felt like I'm coughing my lungs out. Also, I get cramp in my lower abdomen if I cough too hard. I was afraid I'll be hurting the baby. 2 weeks later, I couldn't take it any more and went to my gynae again. This time he prescribed some medicine for me, saying its safe to take medication at 15 weeks. Earlier, it was not too good for the baby.

Well, medication didn't help either. I was still coughing after the course. Then I went over to the government hospital. My intention was to seek 2nd opinion. At the same time to have a record there in case of complication that the private clinic can't handle and I was needed to admit to the government hospital. Well I had another round of medicine that didn't work again. The doc said if I continue to cough like that, they will have to send me for TB test. That really scare me!

I started asking around.. friends, family and they told me to take bird nest.. I took.. bought the expensive ones, you know, those concentrated type. Really ex loh.... but it worked! By mid Feb 09 I wasn't coughing anymore... :)... But I'm still taking bird nest until now.. But now change to lower grade ones lah.. bo lui....