Back to the doc I go

[wendyzski]

While I am marginally better than I was this time last week (after round 1 of the "prednisone and an antibiotic from column B") I am still in pretty much constant discomfort from shortness of breath and a constant need to cough. I'm waking up between 2 and 3 AM in need of my rescue meds every night.

So I called the pulmo and she's squeezing me in at noon. She was talking about a chest x-ray, which I don't think is needed. We DID one of those last year and it's fine. I'm reasonably sure that this is simply asthma symptoms that we can't seem to control with anything we've tried so far.

Comments

[starstraf.livejournal.com]

I'm so happy that the second drug I tried has completely solved my astmah

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

Let's see -
Intal - didn't work
Advair - adverse reaction (throat irritation, loss of voice)
Seravent - SEVERE adverse reaction (throat swelling)
Q-var - didn't work
Spriva - didn't work

I take Singulair AND Zyrtec and use a FloVent inhaler 2-3x/day AND Nasonex nasal spray to keep the inflammation down and I STILL need either daily prednisone or my nebulizer 2-4x/day in the fall.

[ashtalet.livejournal.com]

Is this year's fun instead of last year's plague, or did you have this last year and just have bigger things to worry about?

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

I always get worse in the fall. The last 2 years have been particularly bad and involved severe acute bronchitis, but I have always ended up coughing worse in some fashion every fall since age 11