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I brought christmas lights on my last hospital stay like I said I would do. I was a huge success! The medical staff, visitors, roomates absolutely loved it! :D Thanks for the idea!

I learned during my last hospital stay that how often we need to do a #2 is a good indicator of whether or not we take enough enzymes. If you need to go to the bathroom every time you eat a meal, then you probably need more enzymes. They tried to up my intake to 5 but then I had a "poop is a...

You mean this? http://forum.cysticfibrosis.com/threads/38591-Coughing-infection-cycle?p=918099&viewfull=1#post918099 I actually agree with his intervention. You are an asshole. You jump on people, make rude, condescending and unwarranted comments very often and I actually think you're not...

Wow... what a fucking huge dick you are. Shut the fuck up you asshole. I can't believe what kind of fucking moron you can be. You are yourself a CFer but yet, you are too fucking stupid to understand that within this disease, some people are luckier and some are much less lucky with genetics...

There is a way to cough to avoid that and it doesn't make your cough less effective.

Erm... use a cheap plastic bucket/trash can and put water in it. You won't have to clean up anything. Throw it away when gunk builds up on its sides and/or let it sit with water and a drop of bleach overnight once in a while.

In high school, I was on the bus drinking a bottle of Boost once and OH! A wild cough appeared! I spat out a mouthful of Boost everywhere on the seat in front of me. Luckily no one was there. LOL but many people saw it and were wondering wtf happened. "I coughed."

This is inaccurate. They don't seal the artery shut. They shoot some kind of polymer on its wall to "reduce its size" (obstructing part of it) to reduce the blood flow to the lungs. What happens is that the lung arteries grow supersized due to the abnormally high flow of blood needed in our...

I wanted to do my IV course through a normal IV catheter the last time, but for some reason my veins decided to not cooperate anymore. So I had to go with the PICC. To answer your question 2005CFmom, I'd rather have many stings during a 14 days IV course than to further lose sensitivity in 2...

Sleep pills that are available over the counter are the exact same thing as allergy pills. AFAIK we have no counter-indication for allergy pills.

Azithromycin is an antibiotic that also has antiinflammatory properties. It is these antiinflammatory properties that are thought to account for the improvement in clinical outcome observed when patients with chronic lung diseases such as cystic fibrosis are treated long-term with...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130331165601.htm "The research team, led by Bill B. Chen, Ph.D., associate professor, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, conducted experiments in which mice that lacked the ability to make Fbxo3 were infected with a strain...

Have you ever taken Levaquin or Cipro? They can have nasty long term side effects that pop up randomly long after treatment.

ASAP here means go to the ER if you need to before it gets even worse. Really. Hearing loss issues are very time sensitive.

All ovens have a timer. Use it?

Yes. THC binds with fat and that's how it's extracted from the plant. The other way is with alcohol. It's called "tincture" and requires 90%+ pure alcohol. If you want to know more about it, google "green dragon".

I had the same done at 3 because I was snoring. Clear runny nose does NOT mean that there is infection. I there was infection, it would be colored. I always have a runny nose, especially in winter or when my heart rate goes up. It's always clear and that's not infection.

Sounds like it will have the same fate as new year resolutions...

I usually have 3 to 7 days to know whether I will be able to overcome an exacerbation without antibiotics. It depends on how quick and how severe the onset is. Like sometimes, I feel that I'm getting slowly sicker over several days and then it peaks after 5 to 7 days. When the onset is this...

They collect a stool sample every time I go to the hospital to see if my dosage is right. I've had the same dosage ever since I was 6 (24 now) so it doesn't depend on weight. It depends on how much you eat and how much of a pancreatic function you have left. Since my dosage never changed since...