Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, she became a butterfly.
- English proverb.
This is how I felt before meds and it turned out that I had subglottic stenosis. Have they scoped your throat to check for that? Also they should have checked the tiny joints that move the vocal cords. These can be immobilized in rheumatoid arthritis sufferers... Since there's so much overlap in autoimmune diseases I would ask if they've looked at that. Do you have a hoarse voice or laryngitis?
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, she became a butterfly.
- English proverb.
When I was having the worst of my stenosis/coughing/wheezing/choking troubles, I found warm steam made me feel like I couldn't get air. Cool humidifier and nebulizer with saline worked better for me. Drinking warm tea also helped, but inhaling warm air made me feel as though I was suffocating. I've been told by paramedics when my kids used to get croup that cool mist opens up the airways more. Sometimes just stepping outside into cool moist air helped me in addition to the other fixes.
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, she became a butterfly.
- English proverb.
subglottic stenosis I can not say that I have heard that before but sounds worth looking into....I have the whole have hoarse voice thing going on all the time and I am constantly clearing my throat, I sound like I am a 30 year smoker in the morning..my wife says I am bring sexy back some days...lol It's awful
We will be going to a laryngologist next week to see if her throat wheezing is due to vasculitis in her throat.
I will update when we find out.
Didn't make it to the laryngologist this week due to imuran causing nausea, so next week.
Now, she had what sounds like a chunk of mucus in her throat when she coughs instead of the typical post nasal drip.
She is not able to cough this out and can only swallow it.
She has MPA and not GPA, so I don't know why she has this, but I have heard of some people having both.
They are pretty closely related, just slightly different affected blood vessels.
~ Bob
She coughed up a huge glob and feels better.
This happened a few hours after using MusinexDM 1200mg.
I had given her just the 400mg guifensen and maybe it broke it up.
Anne was right.
The Guaifensin (only) works to get out the mucus blob in the back of the throat.
My mom hacked another blob up, so there must be some kind of infectious or inflammation process going on in the sinus or a little lower.
Thanks again Anne!
Last edited by mrtmeo; 10-05-2014 at 11:56 AM.
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