Anyone have "cough variant" asthma? Vocal cord dysfunction?

@colleenyoung all I need to know is that it works!

@SusanEllen66 and @5148branelly, the home remedy of putting Vicks VapoRub on your feet may help stimulate sensory nerves in the soles of the feet to interrupt the cough cycle has not been proven. There is no scientific proof that putting Vicks VapoRub on your feet will help ease a cough and other cold symptoms. Even so, many people swear that rubbing their feet with Vicks and covering them with socks lessens the severity and duration of the common cold. It can be soothing.

Here's more information on the benefits and limitations of Vicks VapoRub:
- How Vicks VapoRub on Your Feet Helps With Cold and Skin Ailments https://www.verywellhealth.com/can-vicks-vapo-rub-on-the-feet-help-with-a-cough-770258

@5148branelly there are nerves on the bottom of our feet that “speak” to the cough center of the brain.

Many conditions have in common the symptoms of coughing, post nasal drip, and sinusitis. Sinus rinses with saline solution can be very helpful in clearing sinus mucus and irritants, along with warding off sinus infection and coughing. I have found ALKALOL NASAL WASH , which is a mucus solvent and cleaner can be added to the saline solution ( follow directions on back of bottle) to really clean and refresh sinuses and helps greatly in allergy season( year round for me). It is available on line if you don’t find it in a drugstore.
I also have been using one spray only of Astepro Allergy nasal antihistamine instead of Allegra. Goes right to the problem area! May be drying so find your own schedule as symptoms direct.
Another thing anyone with irritation in the throat and sinuses and lungs should look into is Silent Reflux. Different from Gerd and can be greatly helped by diet and initially Pepsid (Famatodine) but NOT omeprazole which only targets acid reflux and is very hard to withdraw from. Look up the little book “ Dropping Acid” by Koufman, Stern and Bauer. It explains Silent Reflux and gives great lists in red or green print of foods that you can or should not eat or drink. Takes a few months of trying to be good and conscious of how we eat but it Does work! Then you find your triggers and work your diet around them. I have EGPA and am on Nucala to control my other symptoms, but sinusitis is not much affected by it. I have found Alkalol sinus rinse ( I use a Waterpulse nasal wash bottle) along with the Astepro nasal spray is helping me a lot and avoiding sinus surgery which I have already had twice and does not solve the problem in my case. Just comes right back. Good luck to all of us, and we should all invest in kleenex!
God bless us every one!
MTH13

@drsharon
It arrived today, so I’ll give it a whirl tomorrow!

@5148branelly it’s basically a plastic bottle you gently squeeze. Concept is kind of gross but it actually works so you get used to it. I bought it at Costco

@drsharon
Thanks. I have a Neilmed on order. It seems like a powerized Neti Pot which I found to be impossible to use. I hope this helps. I’d be fine w/ not taking Mucinex.

@SusanEllen66 —why on the bottom of your feet?

I have mild asthma and cough, but never wheeze. I have a couple severe pollen allergies and a couple other moderate ones. I haven't been diagnosed with vocal cord dysfunction, but was having trouble with my voice frequently when I saw a frontal sinus specialist who took a look. They were covered in yellow secretions despite aggressive treatment with nasal sprays, saline rinses and antihistamines. He prescribed Mometasone for the nasal rinse bottles and I'm much better. It's been 3 years, I'm much better and am trying to reduce it to daily now that pollen season is over, but often need the second dose.

@drsharon —Thanks!
I’ll check this out!