Suzie,
Boy can I symphathize with you. About three weeks ago I just woke up one morning with my nose all stopped up........a cold! I havent had a "true" cold since well before I was diagnosed about three years ago. I was absolutely miserable I sat around going oooooooh Im gonna die........Dale got a big kick outa that for which he got soundly smacked several times......lol........within two days it dropped into my chest and it was awful. I felt like I was drowning, I would hack and choke and cough. I knew the drill, having had bronchitis several times in the past. I already had a medrol dose pack here and a full script of tetracyclain so I started both and used a nebulizer about three or four times a day. After about a week it seemed on its way out.........yeah right.........I was still very tired though and the fatigue just kept getting worse then a little over a week ago I started having these coughing spells, sounded like I was hacking up a lung,
it was worse when I laid down expecially on my left side. When I saw my Onc. Thurs. I told him about it and he listened to my chest. He said I had Bronchitis in my left lung to start the antibiotics again only to double up. Weeeeellllll, I thought okay it will get better now.......errrrrrr, wrong answer, I woke up at 3:30 this morning with a 102 temp and have felt like crap all day!!!! I have found out since DX that any sickness I get seems to last twice as long. Here is my suggestion........take tylenol (I believe that is what you said you tolerate) and get you a big bottle of Robitussin (either Cough or DM) I am a firm believer in Nyquil but have found that Robitussin works better. You could take the Robitussin during the day and Nyquil at night if it helps you sleep better. Something else that will clear your nose up is Sudefed but not the sudefed PE it doesnt work as well as the sudefed with ephedrine in it. It works really well. Well I hope you get to feeling better soon!
Hugs,
Katy
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>
> Hello to all once again:
> I know it has been a while since I posted, but I have kept up
> with what everyone has written. I've had a very interesting past few
> weeks, to say the least. As I had posted earlier, my mother came up
> from her home in Florida a month ago and she and I left for Honolulu,
> Hi. on the first of August for a wonderful time & a dream come true
> vacation that neither one of us ever thought in our wildest dreams that
> we would get to do in our life time (both growing up dirt poor). But,
> it did happen and we had the most beautiful time and I took around a
> hundred amazing pictures. We did get lost a few times, but finally
> decided that that was to be expected and relaxed and j ust found our way
> back to where we were suppose to be. :-) We had leased a small car
> while there & with the help of a booklet provided by the car rental
> company that had great maps of the Island of Oah'u, we drove the whole
> island and saw as much as we were able! :-) People ask us if we went
> here or we went there, and I always reply "if it involved hiking or
> stairs, NO!" I'm sure we missed a lot of natural beauty by not taking
> the scenic hikes or climbs, but having to worry about my mother
> stumbling around out in the wilds or trying to navigate steps with her
> bad ankles, I decided it just wasn't worth the hassle and would be
> something left for "another trip on another day" God-willing! And,
> as out of breath as I get just going from my house up our drive way to
> the mail box (about 1/4 mile slight incline walk), I knew I could never
> keep up with some tour group. :- ) We returned on the 10th (to a
> harrowing experience at the airport in Atlanta coming off an early
> morning all night flight to the news and all the security in place
> about the arrests in London and the terrorist scare) and was back to
> our home here in mid-Missouri around 1:30 that afternoon. Mom & I
> immediately went to bed for a quick nap as we had no sleep since
> leaving Hawaii. That was a Thursday and by Saturday, it hit us, the
> time difference and jet lag.......fatigue! Sunday afternoon my husband
> phoned and informed me that we were having unexpected company drop in
> that evening. He said he had tried to talk this man out of coming, but
> the man was not thinking rational. His wife passed away the first of
> July and he's having trouble dealing with her death and my husband has
> been counciling him and has been like his "big brother" as he has no
> family or close frie nds. He's been left with two precious little girls,
> four & six. So, here we are, expecting them for the next three days,
> roofers are coming to re-roof our house beginning at six in the
> morning, & these people are also bringing an "un-expected" dog. We have
> a dog, too, and he doesn't appreciate sharing his house. :-) It was
> utter chaos from Sunday evening through Wednesday when they all left.
> During this time, my mom and I entertained the two little girls and
> the dog was in a crate in our basement constantly barking the whole
> day, we had roofers overhead hammering each day beginning at six until
> around one (because of our extreme heat). If all that wasn't enough to
> cause one to pull out their hair, our dog's health came in to play. On
> Tuesday he began to have trouble urinating and eventually couldn't.
> All he wanted to do was run to the door to go outside. So, I just ke pt
> him in his bed and would take him out ever so often to "try". By Wed.
> morning, he was miserable and so were we. My mom and I were waiting at
> the vet an hour before he opened. When he examined "Fritz", he said he
> was totally blocked and would have to have immediate surgery and he was
> unable to do it, so sent us to a vet hospital in another town fifteen
> minutes away after calling and talking to them. We got him there,
> again he was examined and they kept him. He had two kidney stones that
> had to be removed and more in his bladder. (they look smaller than the
> two that were removed and our hopes are that they will flush right out,
> time will tell). My husband had to leave that day as well to go on a
> business trip and our company had left by the time we had gotten up
> that morning, so, Mom and I went back home and just sort of
> "vegetated" for the next two days until picki ng up Fritz on Friday. It
> was amazing how "quite" the house seemed. :-) Well, come Sunday
> evening, I begin to feel ill and got up the next morning sick with what
> I thought was "sinus" but eventually began to cough and cough, and it
> has moved into my chest. This is the first time I've had something
> like this since being dxed 2 1/2 years ago. I've been taking some
> Advil Cold & Sinus gel caps during the day and then a dose of Nyquil at
> bedtime. Didn't know what else to do. I felt a little better
> yesterday afternoon, but got up this morning extremely exhausted for
> some reason. Don't know if it's the medication or the illness along
> with the CML & Gleevec combination. Does anyone have a better
> suggestion as to what to do for these kinds of "inconveniences" (colds,
> flu, etc.). I've been blessed not to catch any of the viruses in the
> past, but for some reason this on e slipped up on me. Some around here
> say it is the allergies as the pollen is really bad right now because
> of the extreme heat and dry weather we've had, but I think it's from
> the airplane ride home & one of the little girls had a "snotty" nose
> while here. Plus, I got wet going to church Sunday morning while
> parking the car in the rain. Once in church had to sit there wet and
> chilled. Guess I was just "due". :-) Any help would be much
> appreciated! Sorry that this is so long, guess I needed to talk to
> somebody. :-)
>
> Keep Looking Up,
> Suzieq
>
>
>
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