I was diagnosed with pneumonia on Thursday. I already take Hydrocodone (as directed)-and have been for several years-for some major back issues. So I have a pretty good tolerance to medication.

My doctor prescribed me Hydrotussin to help the cough and help me sleep at night. It's not working too well and is not making me real tired. I know nothing is going to take the cough away completely, but this doesn't help a whole lot. I was going to call my doctor and ask if there is anything a little stronger that can help me (I haven't slept in nights!), but before I do, I want to see if anyone knows if there is anything stronger. I looked on the bottle to see if there was any kind of mgs, but it didn't have any.

Just to add, I had bronchitis this past spring and had 2 different kinds of prescription Robitussin and they didn't work well. I think the Hydrotussin is a little stronger than the Robitussin's were, though.

I just want relief for a little while...Thank you!

Hi all, thanks for all your help! I really appreciate it.

Well, the Hydrotussin (which is Hydrocodone-what I take for my back-and Guaifenesin together) started to help me after a few days. The first few days I was hacking so bad, but needed to-I had so much gunk in there. I could tell the Guaifensesin worked because I'd wake up dead in the middle of sleep being forced to cough. I think those first few days NOTHING would have helped. I called my doctor for a refill and luckily he did refill it. Well, what do you know I opened it and turned around to get a measuring spoon thing and my son knocks it over. I probably lost 3/4 of it. So I call the pharmacy and they tell me to call my doctor. I called them Friday early afternoon and they said they'd leave him a message. No call by like 4:30pm, so I call back and even though they close at 5:00pm, they call people until 5:30pm. So 5:30pm comes and goes, no call. I called the answering service and left a message. The doctors is open Saturday for urgent care needs only and I didn't want to have to go in, but I called and my doctor wasn't in Saturday so she said I probably won't recieve a call back until Monday. Thanks people.

However, he did give me a second prescription when I got the syrup filled. It's gel caps called Benzonatate. It's I guess another cough medicine. I think it's giving me headaches though. And I don't know if this is causing it as well, but I have Restless Leg Syndrome and it has been acting up the past few nights. So I'm not taking any today to see if that's the cause.

I think by now it's just a dry cough. Still consistant and there all the time, but I don't hear too much mucous in there-or feel it.

Johna and twokatss, thanks for the tip on the syrup. If I remember right, when I had bronchitis in the Spring, I had Mytussin and it didn't really work well. I could be mistaken, but isn't codeine and codone (as in Hydrocodone) in the same family? I'm guessing if it's got Hydrocodone in it, it's like having codiene. I could be wrong.

itburns2004, I have a slight case of asthma. Since I was 12 (I'm 32 now) I've gone through periods (mostly during allergy season) when my breathing gets tight and I just can't get that deep breath in. But I've never really had an attack. So I have an inhaler. What's odd was for the past few months, this shortness of breath thing has been going on. Usually when I have it, it'll last a week or so. This was lasting months and the inhaler or nebulizer wasn't working. I know I should have gone to the doctor (my husband kept pushing me, I have a problem with going every time) and I kept saying, "After this (add whatever holiday/birthday/major event) I'll go. Well then I got this pnuemonia and now I'm wondering if all these breathing problems I was having was like a precursor of pneumonia to come? I told him about it when I first went in, but after he saw my x-rays, I forgot to ask him if it has anything to do with it.

So I don't know if my doctor will refill what I spilled or if I'm SOL. I'll let ya'll know. Thanks again for all the support!