redbird: closeup of me drinking tea, in a friend's kitchen (Default)
( May. 8th, 2024 09:44 pm)
I skipped using the "flutter valve" to clear gunk out of my lungs Sunday morning and evening, and Monday morning; I think that's the longest I've skipped since I started using it. Before this, I skipped a few mornings to avoid coughing too much while at the neurologist or dentist's office, then used the device after dinner on those days.

[personal profile] rysmiel asked me in email whether I'm satisfied with the degree to which it is helping overall, and I think so, but it's hard to be sure. I was coughing enough during the day Monday that I used my albuterol inhaler twice, by itself rather than as part of the Mucinex-inhaler-flutter valve process, which is suggestive but not a lot of data.

My current plan is to skip the mornings while traveling to and at Scintillation next month, and likely skip the evenings as well, rather than sit up annoyingly late until I have stopped coughing again, which I would much rather be sitting or standing for rather than lying down.
I sent the pulmonologist a message yesterday:

I was feeling a lot better at the end of the course of antibiotics, but am still coughing occasionally. It's sometimes a productive cough, so I am continuing to use the flutter valve twice a day, after taking mucinex and using the albuterol inhaler. Is this still appropriate?

Also, I got several automated test result messages based on the blood samples, all of them negative or normal range. Is there anything we need to do here?


Her reply this evening was:


Hi Vicki,

Yes I agree, the labs look great. Nothing else to pursue there. Agree with your plan for the flutter valve, mucinex and albuterol. Let's see how things unfold in the coming weeks.


So, keep on keeping on.
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