I waved to white flag this morning and contacted my CF nurse to ask for antibiotics and prednisone. Sunday I woke up with a bad headache at 4am. It was on the top of my head and in my forehead. My sinuses in my forehead are basically non existent now possibly from all the surgeries and all the sinus issues I had as a kid. Sunday night I did a sinus rinse just to make sure there wasn’t anything hanging out in there. There was nothing alarming in there as I suspected. Monday morning I woke up super snotty and my husband said I was snoring all night. I took Mucinex and DayQuil throughout the day to try and help with the congestion and hoped for the best. I have also had a little bit of a sore throat from drainage but there’s no visible drainage in my throat.

This morning I’m still very snotty and now I’m coughing a lot. Yes, it has in fact invaded lung land. UGH!!

My CF doctor was able to see me at 9am for a Telehealth appointment. I did lung functions on my home spirometer before my appointment. My FEV1 was 30%/.83L, so it’s down a tiny bit but nothing to be concerned with. We decided on 14 days of oral Cipro, 13 days of prednisone (40mg for 3 days, 20mg for 5 days and 10mg for 5 days) and phenergan (promethazine) for possible nausea that the Cipro usually causes. The phenergan is an antihistamine and antiemetic to help with the nausea. Zofran doesn’t usually help me as well.

The last time I had a sinus issue I ended up at the urgent care to get started on antibiotics because it was a Saturday. I ended up doing 2 rounds of oral antibiotics (I believe) and then ended up on IVs at home. I went ahead and contacted my doctor in hopes to avoid that happening again. With that said, oral antibiotics rarely work any more and I end up on IVs so we’ll see how this goes. My goal is to make it through an upcoming trip (in 9 days) to KC for my dad’s 70th birthday celebration without IVs. I’ll do all the other stuff I need to do as well like sinus rinses and nose sprays in the meantime.

Halloween always starts my “sick season.” Growing up it was always up in the air if I would get to go trick-or-treating because it never failed I was sick on Halloween. As the years went on I had more of a fall/winter sick season and late spring into summer sick season, so it’s basically all year now. Here’s to hoping I caught it before it was going to get bad but I don’t really have the faith that my lungs will play nice because let’s be real, it’s my lungs we’re talking about here. As my favorite hash tag on Instagram says, #mylungsareassholes!!

Until next time…