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    throwing up and spitting up blood??? Help!!!

    Hey everyone. My husband has been recently diagnosed with CF and he has spent the last two days throwing up blood and stomach acid. He is not on his meds right now b/c we don't have health insurance and the medication is so expensive as you all know. He also has a very swollen tongue full of...
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    throwing up and spitting up blood??? Help!!!

    Hey everyone. My husband has been recently diagnosed with CF and he has spent the last two days throwing up blood and stomach acid. He is not on his meds right now b/c we don't have health insurance and the medication is so expensive as you all know. He also has a very swollen tongue full of...
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    humidity becoming a problem where we live, any suggestions, advice.....

    Hey there. My husband has recently been diagnosed with CF and we are still new to all of this. The humidity where we live is crazy and it seems to be making his symptoms worse and very hard to breathe. We are looking into moving where the air is better. Any suggestions? Do any of you have...
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    severe chest and gum pain......anyone have this

    hey there. my husband is very newly diagnosed with CF and he is complaining about severe chest pain and his gums hurting him. he has also been spitting up blood. Anyone have these symptoms and if so, do I need to take him the the CF clinic or to the hospital thanks
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    Men with CF and In Vitro???? how does this work for the woman??

    Hey there. My husband is newly diagnosed and we've been married a little less than a year. He is 5 years younger than me, I just turned 30. I was hoping that we could start trying for babies by the time I was 31 & 1/2 b/c I don't want to be too up there b4 I have my 1st. The CF doctors...
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    sweat test borderline, now doing fecal elastase test and sputum culture....... anyone have this experience??

    sweat test borderline, now doing fecal elastase test and sputum culture....... anyone have this experience?? My husband is 25 and has all the signs and symptoms of CF, but it's tough getting diagnosis. he has struggled his whole life but no one ever put it past just sinus trouble and now his...
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    help

    hey there. my husband is 25 and was just diagnosed with CF 3 weeks ago. they put him on enzymes, nexium and albuterol inhaler. They also gave him a "pickle" to do a few times a day. He says he feels his lungs have gotten worse and he feels like he needs oxygen. We don't go back to the...
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    Health Insurance and CF....the best plans for the lowest price????

    My husband is going to a CF clinic in 2 weeks to be tested for it. We are pretty sure he has this. We are in the process of trying to get insurance and Docs told me they wouldn't diagnose it until he was covered so that Insurance company can't say it was pre-existing. What health insurance do...
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    what are the best foods to eat with CF, that won't aggrivate the GI issues that come along with this???

    what are the best foods to eat with CF, that won't aggrivate the GI issues that come along with this??? Trying to get my husband to eat, but it seems that everything is aggrivating his stomach. He needs to gain weight badly and be hydrated, but water makes him nauseated. Any help with this...
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    Husband prob. has CF, what can he do for work??

    Hi there. My husband has all the symptoms of CF and has struggled for a while now. he's been getting worse and the doc won't give us the sweat test or the blood test b/c we don't have Health Insurance at the moment. I own a dance studio and am self-employed and just cant afford it for both of...
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    Help, Husband might have CF

    hi there. My husband is 25 and is having a lot of CF symptoms. He coughs all the time and coughs up this really nasty sticky spit. He actually fills up about 4 waterbottles of this spit every day. He always has really bad sinus infections and bronchitis. He only weighs 125 and he's 5'9". He...
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