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how do I go about getting a vest? is it hard to get insurance to pay? how much are they? do you like using it - does it work? what company makes it? thanks!

wow...I am not sure what is happening around here, but I am going ot change the subject for a minute. My babe is now 8 weeks old and has doubled her birth weight - go momma milk! Bu-ut, I have been super super nasty gassy since she was born. At first I thought it was just a side effect from...

As you probably know, I don't do many meds - besides enzymes, advair and albuterol inhalers and hs (but I am not too disciplined on the neb). However, I think it's time to gewt a wee bit more aggressive in my treatments. I am not getting any younger!! So what is pulmozyme? What does it do...

GIRL!! Marlee Sol was welcomed to the world at 9:48 a.m. on October 6, 2006. She weighed 5lbs 5oz and was a whopping 17.5 inches long. The birth was completely natural and I couldn't be happier with how things went (except I forgot to get my placenta back). We're home, and dad is napping with...

I was looking at Julie's tummy and was amazed, so I thought I'd post mine. Here is the difference between one baby, and three! <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.cysticfibrosismaleinfertility.com">Julie's site</a> me: <img...

I hate talking about poop. Too much of my life has been spent describing my stools, but I must ask. I am constipated. It's pregnancy related, but probably combined with CF. I have always been regular and had well formed stools, so this is out of the ordinary. I might go a little tiny drop...

Of all the days for the site to be down...argh! If you read my blog, you might know that I haven't been feeling well. I went to the clinic Friday, and as I already knew, he diagnosed a sinus infection gone upper respiratory...and gave me augmentin. In the back of my mind I vaguely felt that...

OK, so you probably know by now I am pregnant (11 weeks tomorrow! hooray!) and I just had all my routine stuff done at the OB - pap, blood work, etc. and they called today and said my white blood count was slightly elevated and they were going to pull it again in a month. My question is - as...

I am a mom, but not a mom of a CFer - however, being a CFer myself, I think I have a nice long sturdy leg to stand on. I read so much about mom's of CFers who try to shield their children from everything. I know there was a waterpark debate going for a while, and I have read about parent's not...

I am trying to type this as I neb my hypertonic saline - and I realize that I either stop breathing or breathe really fast when I type - wierd. So my question is about coughing - how often do you do it? I wonder the correlation between coughing and health as well, as I have had decent health...

There is a post on here about what your future looks like and it has gotten me thinking. In all actuality, I think I should mix CF into my future outlook, but I don't. I know that many here are "sick" with Cf and that just as many are (relatively) healthy. Many of you know by now, that I...

What meds did you take during your pregnancy? I am currently on advair. albuterol and creon. With my son, I stopped all my meds except the creon, and was fine. this time, 7 years later, I have been using less of my inhalers but I can feel the difference whereas 7 years ago I felt fine without...

I figured since Julie's good news has come up (yea twins!) I might let my own cat out of the bag....we're pregnant too!! We lost one due to miscarriage in December, so I have been hesitant to tell a lot of folks, but I'm pretty excited (though nervous, of course). I have an ultrasound on the...

Do you know of your insurance covered it? I had a hard time first finding a pharmacy to make it here (IN) and then they wanted to charge $120 but won't bill insurance - I don't have the time or the money to deal with that every month, so I used the CF services pharmacy and they still charge...

Since we've all been folowing Julie's journey towards pregnancy, I thought I'd updat on my own. Some of you may remember that I was pregnant at Christmastime, but miscarried soon after. Well, today I go in for my follicle study - that's where they do an ultrasound to see how many eggs the...

1) is it pseudenoma or pseudemona? 2)The last time I went to the clinic, about a week ago, I just happened to glance at my chart and saw a lab sheet that said many pseudemona asperillius (or whatever) type 2. So I asked the doc, as I have NEVER been told that I have psuedemonas. I do not take...

I had my clinic visit today. I have been kinda congested lately and thought my PFTs might have gone down, but they were at 79% which is actually up a bit, so that was nice to hear. I mentioned I wanted to try the hypertonic saline, and so they gave me a nebulizer, but have to locate a pharmacy...

I was reading the banana thread and I was wondering: when and with what do you take your enzymes? I take mine with just about everything - I always did, since childhood, but now I am wondering if I actually need to do that. It never occured to me to just take them with fatty foods. huh. I...

I reported about a month ago that I was pregnant, but sadly I miscarried at the end of December. We are hoping to be pregnant again soon and I wanted to thank everyone for their prayers and aupport and kind words.

In the thread "Mild form of the diease" (sorry, don't know how to link it), someone asked me about my pregnancy and then another mom replied to that too, so I wanted to start a thread to ask some questions of other CF moms: **did you have gestational diabetes? (I was diagnosed as such, and I...