Flu and Pneumonia Shots
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Have any PMR sufferers been recommended by their doctors to get flu shot? Since I am over 65, doctor also insists I get the 5-year pneumonia shot (which I got 4 years ago) and apparently, there'is another lifetime Pneumonia shot being recommended. I hate taking all these shots! However, my doctor says PMR will be greatly affected should I get the flu or, God forbid, pneumonia. Look forward to your resonses.
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rocketman42 tpaggs
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Buffy61 tpaggs
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I'm an Icu nurse...get the shot! It may save your life!
tpaggs Buffy61
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Buffy61 tpaggs
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julian. tpaggs
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Silver49 julian.
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karenjaninaz tpaggs
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I also have a supply of Tamiflu on hand because I have reduced pulmonary function from scoliosis and reactive airway disease.
Ellie1943 karenjaninaz
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Hi. I have scoliosis but never heard of 'reactive' airways disease. I do have COPD however, are the two the same condition do you think? I'm in UK, we have some different names for some things I think.
karenjaninaz Ellie1943
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Reactive airway disease means I get brinchospasm from certain things: smoke, strong smells, allergens particularly mold spores, humidity and pollen. I don't wheeze or cough like an asthmatic.
Restrictive lung disease is from scoliosis. My deformed chest refuses lung space. I've had corrective surgeries in 1956 and 2002- age 60- but my curves were so extreme and 3 of them that limited correction was possible. Fortunately I have NO pain.
karenjaninaz
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EileenH Ellie1943
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"Reactive airway disease is a group of conditions that include reversible airway narrowing due to an external stimulation. These conditions generally result in wheezing. Conditions within this group include asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and viral upper respiratory infections."
whereas
"Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the name for a group of lung conditions that cause breathing difficulties.
It includes:
emphysema – damage to the air sacs in the lungs
chronic bronchitis – long-term inflammation of the airways
COPD is a common condition that mainly affects middle-aged or older adults who smoke. Many people don't realise they have it.
The breathing problems tend to get gradually worse over time and can limit your normal activities, although treatment can help keep the condition under control."
So COPD is there all the time, reactive airways disease means you have difficulty breathing in response to a trigger but it can and does reverse.
Ellie1943 EileenH
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Thanks Eileen. I am an ex smoker so that accounts for the COPD among other things, like being brought up in an area full of coal smoke, smog and factory chimney's belching muck out post war but can't get my GP's to admit this, they can't get past me having smoked in the past!
mark9992 tpaggs
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None of my doctors have made such a recommendation, but then I'm in America, where the doctor only makes a brief cameo appearance to ask you how you are, listens to your heart, and then bustles out of the room like his butt was on fire! In America, you can't make money unless you spend 7 minutes or less with your patient.
rocketman42 mark9992
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I'm also in the USA. I make it a point to ask and not wait for them to suggest.
constance.de mark9992
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How awful! The doctors n America seem to not really want anything to do with ill people!😡. 7 minutes? It's ridiculous! My doctor (in Germany) once spent 3/4 of an hour, examining, phoning a specialist friend (300 miles away!) because he couldn't understand why my ESR and CRP levels kept rising - even on pred.
Can't you have the flu jab privately, or is it too expensive?
karenjaninaz constance.de
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Under Obamacare immunizations/ preventive care are free. .
Pour country is going through a health insurance flux. As long as profit-making insurance companies are involved there will be issues with low Doctor reunbursents resulting in skimping on patient care. The Medicare health coverage for the elderly is a gov't program. I found the doctor, both specialist and gp spend enough time with me.
tpaggs constance.de
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