Littlemiss
New member
So..
I haven't posted in a while, but am so cranky about what happened at clinic yesterday had to get some of your thoughts.
I have been feeling myself go downhill a bit over the last few weeks but stupidly put off going to the Dr. To make a long story short, I went yesterday and found that I had dropped to 70% fev1, which is really bad for me because I am usually around 85. I was sure that the Dr would want to do something agressive with such a big drop (it's the lowest I've been EVER) and was prepared for the worst (haven't been on IVs since my teens). Anyway, they didn't want me to do iv's, but try some nebs first (fair enough).
My problem is this: they put me on tobra and cipro, when I could see on the computer that one of my PA strains was resistant to tobra. I have done tobra heaps before and it never works. I told them this, and that the last time I had timentin it worked really well, plus both strains of PA are senstive to timentin. So after much faffing around, I ended up with a script for tobra.
I am annoyed because they won't listen, but I really want to know from you all if it is normal to Rx something that one bug is resistant to, wouldn't it make much more sense to Rx abx that both bugs are sensitive to??
I am ranting, sorry <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif" border="0">
Please reply
AJ
I haven't posted in a while, but am so cranky about what happened at clinic yesterday had to get some of your thoughts.
I have been feeling myself go downhill a bit over the last few weeks but stupidly put off going to the Dr. To make a long story short, I went yesterday and found that I had dropped to 70% fev1, which is really bad for me because I am usually around 85. I was sure that the Dr would want to do something agressive with such a big drop (it's the lowest I've been EVER) and was prepared for the worst (haven't been on IVs since my teens). Anyway, they didn't want me to do iv's, but try some nebs first (fair enough).
My problem is this: they put me on tobra and cipro, when I could see on the computer that one of my PA strains was resistant to tobra. I have done tobra heaps before and it never works. I told them this, and that the last time I had timentin it worked really well, plus both strains of PA are senstive to timentin. So after much faffing around, I ended up with a script for tobra.
I am annoyed because they won't listen, but I really want to know from you all if it is normal to Rx something that one bug is resistant to, wouldn't it make much more sense to Rx abx that both bugs are sensitive to??
I am ranting, sorry <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif" border="0">
Please reply
AJ