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Asthma after pneumonia
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Asthma after pneumonia
by peekawho, Jul 06, 2007 12:00AM
I recently had pneumonia, and it exaccerbated my formerly very, very mild asthma (I hardly ever had to use my albuterol inhaler).
Now I just finished a week of oral prednisone and antibiotics, am nebulizing 4-5 times a day with Xopenex 1.25mg, and am on Asthmanex daily now. My peak flows are still around 300-350 in the mornings, improved to 420-480 post nebs, but am plagued with a frequent horrible cough, day and night.
How long should it take this to resolve? I just had a chest xray yesterday, everything looked good. I still just plain don't feel good. I have an appt in 10 days to discuss managment, if I'm still not doing well.
Thank you. If you can think of anything else I can or should be doing, let me know. I hate taking all this medication.
Now I just finished a week of oral prednisone and antibiotics, am nebulizing 4-5 times a day with Xopenex 1.25mg, and am on Asthmanex daily now. My peak flows are still around 300-350 in the mornings, improved to 420-480 post nebs, but am plagued with a frequent horrible cough, day and night.
How long should it take this to resolve? I just had a chest xray yesterday, everything looked good. I still just plain don't feel good. I have an appt in 10 days to discuss managment, if I'm still not doing well.
Thank you. If you can think of anything else I can or should be doing, let me know. I hate taking all this medication.
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Peaks are 400 prior/460 post inhaler today. I've only had to use my inhaler a couple of times.