What causes shoulder pain and dry cough?
Patient: Hi I went to my local Dr Friday having had pain in my right side and shoulder and was told because I had a fever it was probably infected or inflamed gallstones. I explained to Dr I was going on holiday in the Saturday and she said ok because your not in pain when I examined you and you seem ok go, take these antibiotics, rest loads, go on a strict fat free diet. if I was sick or skin started to turn yellow I needed to go to hospital. so I ve been doing all this,I ve developed a dry cough tonight (the Wednesday night) it started off just now and again but I went to bed about 2 hrs ago and it got really bad. I think the pain in my shoulder was to blame for most of it, but I wondered if I should be worried about the cough? it seems to have pretty much gone now. we are headed home on Friday where a scan letter should be waiting for me but I wondered if it s related? Doctor: hi,I do not think that the cough and shoulder pain are related. Cough , which is for most of the people a dry one is common. For that I will advice to take steam and do deep breathing exercises. Along with this you can continue your physician prescription. Now let's talk about your shoulder pain, which may be due to some other issue. if the pain is too much you can try initially taking hot water fermentation for it and do slow upper limb movements. for this you can simply clench your hands and do lift it up and down slowly and gradually with in your pain limits. let's add some exercise for respiratory system Along with this . try taking deep breaths when you raise you hands up and blow the air out through your mouth when getting the hands down. hope this helps. if the symptoms persists you can meet up a physician for the same.