Lately, I have getting so sick. It all started in July of 2013, We were planning to have friends over the long weekend and suddenly, I was sick. We had to cancel our plans. It started off with just a common cold and then severe cough. The cough was so severe that I had to go to Urgent care. They took and X-ray and took a breathing test. The doctor prescribed antibiotics and a cough suppressant for the night. He mentioned, it could be some sort of sinus allergy. We thought it was some seasonal thing and after taking the antibiotics and resting for couple of days, the cough went away. Few said, having a toddler at home would make the parents also sick. Few days past by, I was feeling fine. Then by the end of July, I visited the doctor for the same symptoms. They treated me for Bronchitis, prescribed with an inhaler using Flovent medication to open up the airways in the lungs and Robitussin with codeine for the cough.
Again visited my Physician after 2 days as the cough got very severe. She asked me to keep taking the inhaler. The cough subsided for couple of days and then again in August, I visited the doctor again with the same symptoms. This time, she diagnosed with Upper Respiratory Infection.Same old medication. August, September, had the same issues..asked for a specialist referral, went to see an ENT doctor, the ENT specialist said nothing was wrong, everything looks good...
December...went to visit the doctor again with the same symptoms, tested me for FLu, strep throat...everything came out negative...still no answer...I thought it could have been some sort of allergy..went to have various allergy tests...all the results were negative, the allergist did a breathe test and Boy it was hard for me to blow hard...made be very tired to blow air out of my lungs....It didn't occur to me...at that time...I should be seeing a Pulmonary specialist who specialises in breathing...lungs...cough etc...The allergist mentioned that I have some sort of Asthma...I was upset...Asthma at this age? How can this happen? Felt bad...of course....WHY ME????Was asked to keep taking the FLovent...I did for a while and stopped taking it after I felt little better...
Luckily, October, December and January were cough free...Once again the symptoms creep up in February, the physician till date doesn't tell me to see a specialist. My light bulbs blew up and I asked for a referral to see a pulmonary specialist, then I made an appointment with the specialist, in the meanwhile, I am sick, sore throat-cold-severe cough....had to take time off from work...people at work were worried on what was happening to me...went to the clinic again.(this time, appointment with a NP)..finally after so many months, they take a chest x-ray...they found infection in the lungs...confirmed it as Pneumonia...prescribes antibiotics...The cough has been making me so tired and was not able to sleep for 3 days...if i lay down, the cough gets so severe....Had been taking the symbicort and albuterol...nothing was really working...in the meantime, finally had the appointment with the Pulmonary specialist. First thing, she orders is a CAT scan, blood work for several things...For the first time, I felt, she understood my problem...she prescribed me a more powerful medicine for the cough to make sleep during the night...it helped a lot...I took several breathing tests...all the other tests came negative...the doc finally wanted me to take a bronchoscopy to sneak peek at my lungs...I was fine for a week and then I am coughing up a bit...
I should have taken my health seriously when I having these symptoms so repeatedly...I should have changed my physician when she asked me what medication worked for me before so she can prescribe me those when I went to see her...and when she said that those medications will be effective only when I keep taking them for a long time...I hate her...seriously dislike her for not directing me properly...If you can't treat and then please direct me to someone who can...
I am writing this in my blog to show my agony...anguish..suffering... that I am going through at this point of my life. My work and my personal life is so getting affected by this stupid infection...
I am seriously so tired being sick...I want to be active and well again...I want to be cough-free...Please I am sick of being sick.....Please get me a cure to my cough :(
Again visited my Physician after 2 days as the cough got very severe. She asked me to keep taking the inhaler. The cough subsided for couple of days and then again in August, I visited the doctor again with the same symptoms. This time, she diagnosed with Upper Respiratory Infection.Same old medication. August, September, had the same issues..asked for a specialist referral, went to see an ENT doctor, the ENT specialist said nothing was wrong, everything looks good...
December...went to visit the doctor again with the same symptoms, tested me for FLu, strep throat...everything came out negative...still no answer...I thought it could have been some sort of allergy..went to have various allergy tests...all the results were negative, the allergist did a breathe test and Boy it was hard for me to blow hard...made be very tired to blow air out of my lungs....It didn't occur to me...at that time...I should be seeing a Pulmonary specialist who specialises in breathing...lungs...cough etc...The allergist mentioned that I have some sort of Asthma...I was upset...Asthma at this age? How can this happen? Felt bad...of course....WHY ME????Was asked to keep taking the FLovent...I did for a while and stopped taking it after I felt little better...
Luckily, October, December and January were cough free...Once again the symptoms creep up in February, the physician till date doesn't tell me to see a specialist. My light bulbs blew up and I asked for a referral to see a pulmonary specialist, then I made an appointment with the specialist, in the meanwhile, I am sick, sore throat-cold-severe cough....had to take time off from work...people at work were worried on what was happening to me...went to the clinic again.(this time, appointment with a NP)..finally after so many months, they take a chest x-ray...they found infection in the lungs...confirmed it as Pneumonia...prescribes antibiotics...The cough has been making me so tired and was not able to sleep for 3 days...if i lay down, the cough gets so severe....Had been taking the symbicort and albuterol...nothing was really working...in the meantime, finally had the appointment with the Pulmonary specialist. First thing, she orders is a CAT scan, blood work for several things...For the first time, I felt, she understood my problem...she prescribed me a more powerful medicine for the cough to make sleep during the night...it helped a lot...I took several breathing tests...all the other tests came negative...the doc finally wanted me to take a bronchoscopy to sneak peek at my lungs...I was fine for a week and then I am coughing up a bit...
I should have taken my health seriously when I having these symptoms so repeatedly...I should have changed my physician when she asked me what medication worked for me before so she can prescribe me those when I went to see her...and when she said that those medications will be effective only when I keep taking them for a long time...I hate her...seriously dislike her for not directing me properly...If you can't treat and then please direct me to someone who can...
I am writing this in my blog to show my agony...anguish..suffering... that I am going through at this point of my life. My work and my personal life is so getting affected by this stupid infection...
I am seriously so tired being sick...I want to be active and well again...I want to be cough-free...Please I am sick of being sick.....Please get me a cure to my cough :(
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