bronchiecstis

Of course. It's part of this condition. However, there are ways of countering this. Make sure to drink plenty of fluids and inhale decongestion medication or at least just saline, as some people do. I personally find licorice root tea very helpful for this.

I have a hard time breathing about 3 times per year and my doctor puts me on a course of prednisone and that clears uo the inflamation and after3 days I am breathing good again but I would ask your Doctor first.

Hello,

Yes, I do, although not all the time but when when I'm going through a bad patch I do get breathless and the fatigue is awful. Just hang on in there. Try some simple breathing exercises and stretches help when you expand your lungs.I do find my salt pipe (15 minutes a day) very helpful as, in my case, it loosens all the mucus and then I do my physio to bring it up. Its a bit of a bind but well worth the effort. 

I have an emergency inhaler which is not a steroid but just opens the airway and that is what that is for - breathlessness.  An example:  I was going to a restaurant with friends, one of whom had emphysema, and she noticed I was stopped in the parking lot and not moving because I couldn't get my breath at all.  I just stood there (as I do every time that happens) until it goes away and i can get enough breath to get me to the door.  She told me I needed oxygen.  When I saw my doctor and told him exactly all that, he said, 'no you don't need oxygen; that's when you need to use your emergency inhaler'.  I had never used it in all these years!  I thought if I eventually could catch enough breath I was doing fine - well now I know different (why don't doctors give us examples of when to use these things).

AND maybe you have something else going on that u might not be aware of if you haven't mentioned it to the doctor - I have asthma and that's why i got the inhaler but could u have adult onset asthma too?  I don't know if bronchiectasis causes breathlessness like I'm talking about but what you describe sounds like what I have occasionally, as described..

The kind of 'clogged up breathing' I get with bronchiectasis is different - it feels more like you can't breathe so well because you're clogged up with mucus that needs to come up.  The feeling is entirely different from the episode I describe above.

Tabatha

Joycemadine, I have been lucky so far and not had problem with short of breath.

I think it's becasue the BRX has not advanced to that stage as of yet.Lucky me?

I have BRX for only nine years. A light weight compared to others on our site.  

But I am having second thoughts about taking hiking trips not for SOB so much but infection. Now I know I have to be more adventuresome and brave, because BRX waits for no one.

Really cool how I made this all about me, right?

I just read all the replys below and many remidies are offered that may be helpful for you.I particularly like what dancing queen has to offer.

Below is a website that is an artical about the combinaton of RA and BRX in patients. You may find it helpful in the since that special care most be taken when having the comninations of the two illnesses. If your doctors are not taking this in to consideration ( they probably are, but stranger things have happened) then perhaps you can ask for a medical aprroach that addresses this problem?

http://rc.rcjournal.com/content/58/4/694.full

All my best for you,

Russ

 

 

Hi Joyce that's just how I am struggling for breath, I have the psudomonas and on strong antibiotics for ten day but I really am worried that I  can't breath properly.

regards

Rosemary