what makes a cough dry?
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I was recently prescribed a secondary high blood pressure medicine, Lisinopril, which is one of the ACE inhibitors and started having a dry hacking cough, especially at night, that was so bad I couldn’t sleep so I went to urgent care and then to my doctor and was prescribed cough medicines then an RX for GERD but none of those stopped my coughing. I realized that when OTC Delsym nor RX Tussionex cough syrups didn’t work that it had to be something else. I looked up dry hacking cough on Google and saw where 20% of people who take ACE inhibitors get a dry hacking cough so I mentioned it to my doctor and he apologized for not catching it. This was after about a month of coughing every night and sometimes coughing fits during the day. My doctor gave me a different type of blood pressure medicine and I noticed my coughing started up again so I stopped taking that RX and coughed for about another 3 weeks.
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