I finished 3 weeks of IVs earlier this week. I do feel better than I did BUT I’m still having coughing attacks. I’m attributing it more to asthma though. I was offered prednisone at clinic on Friday (yesterday) but I declined for the time being. I’m going to hold off and see if treatments and such can help. We all know how much I love prednisone, NOT! My lung functions were the same at FEV1 .96L/34%. My first two attempts were 33% and my last one was the 34%. I will follow-up in 6 weeks. Continue reading
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1 week follow up on chest x-ray
Wednesday I had a chest x-ray to check the progress of the upper right lobe where I was having the slight pain, which is where the x-ray showed the atelectasis (air trapping). My x-ray was unchanged. The prednisone didn’t do much if anything for the atelectasis. The next step is a chest CT. I am scheduled for the CT Thursday the 17th. After they get the results from the CT we will then figure out what the next step will be and if there needs to be. The atelectasis could simply be more shadowing and not as prominent as it appears which the CT will give us a more definite answer. Continue reading
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