Sometime last week I got a cold, but I'm worried it's not just a cold, because the coughing is getting worse and my throat feels like something is stabbing me, every time I try to go to sleep I wake up coughing really bed and it's starting to hurt to talk. I've tried cough medicine, cold medicine and cough drop but nothing's really working. I know it can't be tonsillitis because I had them removed. Can someone try to help me understand what it might be before I try to get someone to take me to the hospital.