question about coughing and IVs

[JazzysMom]

I will say that you will get worse before you get better. The ivs work through the "layers" of mucous. As it gets through one layer the cough gets better, but then its starts on the next layer & the cough worsens. This happens until there is nothing left to clean up.

The crackles as Michelle could be many things. The sicker a CFer is, the longer it takes to see a CONTINUOUS improvement!

Remember that the CPT/Vest itself & coughing up is important. The meds can only do so much!!

HUGS

 

[JazzysMom]

I will say that you will get worse before you get better. The ivs work through the "layers" of mucous. As it gets through one layer the cough gets better, but then its starts on the next layer & the cough worsens. This happens until there is nothing left to clean up.

The crackles as Michelle could be many things. The sicker a CFer is, the longer it takes to see a CONTINUOUS improvement!

Remember that the CPT/Vest itself & coughing up is important. The meds can only do so much!!

HUGS

 

[JazzysMom]

I will say that you will get worse before you get better. The ivs work through the "layers" of mucous. As it gets through one layer the cough gets better, but then its starts on the next layer & the cough worsens. This happens until there is nothing left to clean up.

The crackles as Michelle could be many things. The sicker a CFer is, the longer it takes to see a CONTINUOUS improvement!

Remember that the CPT/Vest itself & coughing up is important. The meds can only do so much!!

HUGS

 

[JazzysMom]

I will say that you will get worse before you get better. The ivs work through the "layers" of mucous. As it gets through one layer the cough gets better, but then its starts on the next layer & the cough worsens. This happens until there is nothing left to clean up.

The crackles as Michelle could be many things. The sicker a CFer is, the longer it takes to see a CONTINUOUS improvement!

Remember that the CPT/Vest itself & coughing up is important. The meds can only do so much!!

HUGS

 

[JazzysMom]

I will say that you will get worse before you get better. The ivs work through the "layers" of mucous. As it gets through one layer the cough gets better, but then its starts on the next layer & the cough worsens. This happens until there is nothing left to clean up.
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<br />The crackles as Michelle could be many things. The sicker a CFer is, the longer it takes to see a CONTINUOUS improvement!
<br />
<br />Remember that the CPT/Vest itself & coughing up is important. The meds can only do so much!!
<br />
<br />HUGS

 

[Nightwriter]

Hi Heather,

I'm glad your daughter has seen some improvement. I don't know if you want any other ideas for the future concerning antibiotics, but this is what I do. I like to keep Tobra and Cipro in abeyance, so I ask the doctor to prescribe other drugs that would work if possible. I like to not use Tobra, primarily because it is so easily taken as a nebulized medicine. And I don't want to build resistance to that one most also because it is so effective against Pseudomonas. And since your daughter may not even have Pseudomonas, there are probably other drugs they can use anyway.

For infections that are not lung-related or lung infections that can be treated with other drugs, I always ask if I can have something other than Cipro. Whenever I get a culture, I like to look at it with the doctor. You can really learn a lot about how you own sensitivities change from culture to culture. And you may better remember than your doctor what drugs you took over time, so you can rotate them.

By the way, the high very young something or others were neutrophils.

 

[Nightwriter]

Hi Heather,

I'm glad your daughter has seen some improvement. I don't know if you want any other ideas for the future concerning antibiotics, but this is what I do. I like to keep Tobra and Cipro in abeyance, so I ask the doctor to prescribe other drugs that would work if possible. I like to not use Tobra, primarily because it is so easily taken as a nebulized medicine. And I don't want to build resistance to that one most also because it is so effective against Pseudomonas. And since your daughter may not even have Pseudomonas, there are probably other drugs they can use anyway.

For infections that are not lung-related or lung infections that can be treated with other drugs, I always ask if I can have something other than Cipro. Whenever I get a culture, I like to look at it with the doctor. You can really learn a lot about how you own sensitivities change from culture to culture. And you may better remember than your doctor what drugs you took over time, so you can rotate them.

By the way, the high very young something or others were neutrophils.

 

[Nightwriter]

Hi Heather,

I'm glad your daughter has seen some improvement. I don't know if you want any other ideas for the future concerning antibiotics, but this is what I do. I like to keep Tobra and Cipro in abeyance, so I ask the doctor to prescribe other drugs that would work if possible. I like to not use Tobra, primarily because it is so easily taken as a nebulized medicine. And I don't want to build resistance to that one most also because it is so effective against Pseudomonas. And since your daughter may not even have Pseudomonas, there are probably other drugs they can use anyway.

For infections that are not lung-related or lung infections that can be treated with other drugs, I always ask if I can have something other than Cipro. Whenever I get a culture, I like to look at it with the doctor. You can really learn a lot about how you own sensitivities change from culture to culture. And you may better remember than your doctor what drugs you took over time, so you can rotate them.

By the way, the high very young something or others were neutrophils.

 

[Nightwriter]

Hi Heather,

I'm glad your daughter has seen some improvement. I don't know if you want any other ideas for the future concerning antibiotics, but this is what I do. I like to keep Tobra and Cipro in abeyance, so I ask the doctor to prescribe other drugs that would work if possible. I like to not use Tobra, primarily because it is so easily taken as a nebulized medicine. And I don't want to build resistance to that one most also because it is so effective against Pseudomonas. And since your daughter may not even have Pseudomonas, there are probably other drugs they can use anyway.

For infections that are not lung-related or lung infections that can be treated with other drugs, I always ask if I can have something other than Cipro. Whenever I get a culture, I like to look at it with the doctor. You can really learn a lot about how you own sensitivities change from culture to culture. And you may better remember than your doctor what drugs you took over time, so you can rotate them.

By the way, the high very young something or others were neutrophils.

 

[Nightwriter]

Hi Heather,
<br />
<br />I'm glad your daughter has seen some improvement. I don't know if you want any other ideas for the future concerning antibiotics, but this is what I do. I like to keep Tobra and Cipro in abeyance, so I ask the doctor to prescribe other drugs that would work if possible. I like to not use Tobra, primarily because it is so easily taken as a nebulized medicine. And I don't want to build resistance to that one most also because it is so effective against Pseudomonas. And since your daughter may not even have Pseudomonas, there are probably other drugs they can use anyway.
<br />
<br />For infections that are not lung-related or lung infections that can be treated with other drugs, I always ask if I can have something other than Cipro. Whenever I get a culture, I like to look at it with the doctor. You can really learn a lot about how you own sensitivities change from culture to culture. And you may better remember than your doctor what drugs you took over time, so you can rotate them.
<br />
<br />By the way, the high very young something or others were neutrophils.