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Can someone help me figure out what is going on with my lungs? After I was diagnosed the respirologist gave me azithromycin every second day for two months. After about 6 weeks the coughing went away (including the coughing at night). But when it ran out the coughing came back again. Awhile later my family doctor prescribed me azithromycin and the same thing happened, after 6 or 7 weeks the coughing stopped. Then the respirologist switched me to doxycycline and after a week on that the coughing started up again. So I just switched back to azithromycin. I guess I have a chronic infection that is only responsive to azithromycin? The thing is that the respirologist told me I can't stay on it, he said I might go antibiotic resistant. I can't stand the coughing at night, I am on day shift at work and never get enough sleep when I wake up coughing all the time. The respirologist said if I want to see him again in 6 months to get another referral from my doctor. I am going to try to get a referral to the Lung Centre in the city, maybe they can try to figure out what is going on.
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heretoday
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I also just found out from a sputum test that I have haemophilus influenzae so I guess that's why my c reactive protein has been going up. the doxycyline should have been helping me then?
Schatz heretoday
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Hi, Im sorry I didn't see your other posts before I posted. Carol66471
s idea is a great one if you can get to that center.
carol66471 heretoday
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heretoday carol66471
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Schatz heretoday
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Hello, I was wondering how you were diagnosed? Did you get a CAT scan? It can't be diagnosed by listening to your chest. This disease is of the bronchial tubes that bring the air to the lungs. The tubes either by infection or birth defect get flabby and stretch so they can't efficiently push air into your lungs I was given an antibiotic and was put on a nebulizer with albuterol sulfate inhalation solution 0.083 combined with Sodium Chloride inhalation solution USP3%. If you have an infection the nebulizer will help bring up the mucus that is in your lungs. An antibiotic won't help if the stuff isn't coming out. You definitely need to see a lung doctor/pulmanologist.. The way they are handling you makes no sense. If you are a smoker, they may just be treating an underlying lung infection like pneumonia.....don't be concerned about being resistant right now. You need to get rid of the infection no matter what it takes. Did they try to take a sample of your sputum, something that you are coughing up? That is how they will know what antibiotic is best. Some of us have to be on low dose antibiotics all the time because we get infections all the time. If you smoke, you can't do it anymore. You could also have COPD and bronchaiectisis (will I ever be able to spell that word?) See a lung doctor immediately. Your body is coughing because there is something wrong and your lungs need help. These diseases don't go away, but you can get help to feel better. I hope you feel better soon. Please post after you see a good lung dr.
heretoday Schatz
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Schatz heretoday
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Hi, I just wanted to say that I was coughing for YEARS and on constant antibiotics for bronchitis and pneumonia which I did have but the cough just went on. Finally I told my internist that I needed a referral to a lung doctor. He did a CAT scan and showed me the dying bronchial tubes. Why no one referred me is beyond me. Every six weeks I was sick with infection. This disease hasn't been known for very long but COPD has and I believe that is how they have found the one we have. Please keep in touch and demand a referral!
carol17480 heretoday
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This is my experience , hope it helps . I have had Bronchiectasis for years now and doctors don't want me on any more antibiotics but I am on Advair(an inhaler ) and Ventalin an inhaler which is Albutrol Sulfate . These two really help me control the cough.I use them daily. You might want to ask your GP.
aitarg35939 heretoday
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I, too, was going to ask what inhalers you're on. Like Carol, i use Advair, which is a steroid & it's what controls my dry night cough. Because my lungs are so gunky, i do 3 nebulized meds several times daily & use 1200mg mucolytic twice daily. There are 40 or 50 inhalants on the market. There are also steroid tablets that can help with the cough.
All of which is way beyond the vast majority of American primary care docs, don't know about Canadians. You need to be seeing a lung specialist at least twice yearly, more frequently in exacerbations. As to the Haemoph etc., i got nothin. What i just read on wiki sounds awful. Some doctor needs to be working on that diligently with you.
I hope they get you squared away soon so that you will also be here tomorrow, love.
heretoday aitarg35939
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Hi - thanks for your reply. I was only given the Incruise Ellipta inhaler. I don't know anything about mucolytic. I have a nebulizer but have only tried ventolin (salbutamol) and glutathione (from naturopath).
graham23402 heretoday
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Hope this helps.
Sincerely, Graham.23402