question: i have had this cough/cold for over a week now and it wont go away no matter what i do.  the weird thing though is that it started out as a cough then i got cold symptoms and now i have both a cough and cold.  another weird thing is that i will cough a little bit during the day, but after 5:00 pm when i start to wind down from the day if i try to lay down and rest a bit i will have cough attacks where i will cough really hard and sometimes it makes it sort of hard to breath.  i dont know what this means but if you could help me out that would be great.