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since last night i've had some pain in my left lung. i noticed it before i went to sleep and then during the night i had a sort of coughing fit and it was really painful then. i would breathe in deeply to cough and it would hurt (although not an extremely sharp pain) and i just didn't feel...

just wondered if anyone gets this. i've had it in the last several months and i don't remember having it before then. i don't know if it is my body fighting off a virus when i have no other symptoms, or what? it tends to be mostly around my neck and shoulders but spreads down my back and...

i got home from work today after i'd had the feeling like "i can't wait to do therapy after work" because i'd been tight in this one area all day. i did a really big cleansing cough and there was blood. this is very unusual for me. every time i have EVER coughed up blood it has always been...

sometimes when i am pondering the difficulties of life, it makes me feel better to realize that i am much healthier than i thought i would be at my age. or to realize how poor my health would be if i had never come out of my self-care slump that i hit in high school--would i be on the tx list...

i have a bubbles (new in wrapper) mask i got with my pari pediatric nebulizer compressor and an asthma coloring book (and stickers!!) that i do not need. i also have about a baggie's worth of insulin pen needles if anyone is interested. i'm just doing some house cleaning!

has anyone upgraded from one to the other or used both and has an opinion about which is better? thanks!

hey jenn, maybe it is the time of year--who knows--but i have found myself reminiscing a lot lately. i have been thinking of john... i have been missing him terribly. i can't believe it has been three months. his death has taken a long time to sink in for me--it is finally feeling more...

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this may end up to be an off-topic question depending on what you guys think. yesterday i was brushing my tongue and it bled slightly--very weird. then i notice some little marks on the roof of my mouth. freaked me out. today i realized that for the last two days my sense of taste has also...

i am just wondering b/c when i was done i was absolutely exhausted! i didn't sleep much the whole two weeks, i was eating less and basically doing nothing physical so i had no energy. i have been off IVs for 5 days now and i am still feeling sluggish and not quite ready to get back into my old...

just wondered if anyone had had to deal with getting TOBI out of the carpet. i have a nice splatter spot on my tan carpet and it is quite discolored--it turned the carpet darker than its natural color. i tried regular carpet cleaner but it didn't really work. any ideas? is this permanent??

what is the deal with the Pari LC Star and Pari LC Sprint nebulizers? they look the same as the plain old LCs i'm used to using... do any of you use these? are they supposed to be faster?? any information would be greatly appreciated. (i had this at the end of my compressor post but i...

has anyone ever gotten a port and then regretted it? for example, say you had been getting a lot of ivs and then after your port you didn't need as many ivs and you found the port was a hassle to flush every month or something? or, was there another reason you regretted it? like the surgery...

i wanted to see if this sounds right to you guys: to draw blood from a picc line, first flush with a syringe of saline (5 ml). then draw 2 syringes full of blood to be thrown away to make sure the picc is cleared of any antibiotic residue. finally, draw your blood. i ask because the nurse...

so, i looked back at some old threads to see what kinds of nebulizers everybody uses. here is what i found: omeron--looked cool but they were expensive and small, so i'm not sure they would deliver the medicine properly? inspiration--seems fairly priced but i'm not hot about those flat...

question: i know the picc can get sore being in for a while. and my arm definitly has that weirdo feeling like my vein is irritated. but, if my arm was sore from my vein being irritated, would it be MORE sore at the insertion point?? i am on day 7 with my picc and things have been great...

i think i figured out what i was doing wrong. first of all, i was taking in slow breaths and pausing between them for several seconds. this morning, i tried inhaling more quickly and only pausing for a second or two between breaths and it worked !!!! i was very excited. another thing...

sorry for the corny topic title. i am frustrated b/c i have finally replaced all my old neb cups with new ones in the last couple of months. i also took the time to color code them straight out of the bag so that i am sure that each outer cup matches the inner stem that it came with. my...

i'm looking to switch from the hill rom vest (which i've just recently finished my 30 day trial for) to the RespirTech vest. has anyone had experience making this switch? or, does anyone have fabulous things to say about the RespirTech??? thanks.

i am about a couple of weeks past my 30-day trial with the vest and hill rom is currently in the process of getting approval of my insurance. i am now about to be on my THIRD vest--the first two basically had the same problem of air leaking from the hose connection. i have also had a series of...