Well, tomorrow is the big appointment. Today, I feel worse than I have in awhile. I coughed a lot this weekend, but I think it's because I am out of my presc cough medicine. That pretty much knocked me out and kept me from coughing. I am so sore and exhausted from it all. I have burst a blood vessel in my eye from coughing so hard even.
It seems that I am getting more mucus now in the nose down my throat. When I cough, it seems like it won't stop until I cough SOMETHING up. My throat seems to be getting more narrow when I cough, or it might just be that it is really sore. I have this horrible taste in my mouth now and even though my nose isn't stuffy, it seems like it's going down my throat or something from my nasal cavity.
I have just never ever felt this bad for this long. I still can't talk - their is just no voice there. NONE. I can whisper a little, but no voice.
Just don't worry.
Any cough syrup containing codeine will suppress cough but will make one drowsy. But this is what is given for such cough.
Lets see what the ENT finds in the larynx :-)
Best rgds,
TA
Well, they put the scope down my nose and throat and there is a lot of irritation, redness, swelling, etc., in my esophagus. He couldn't get into the voice box because it was so irritated that I started gagging, etc., but he thinks there is a viral infection in my esophagus and voice box. Not sure, but thinks that is what it is.
Still, I have no voice - but it seems to be doing a teeny tiny bit better. He gave me some more Tussinex (sp?), that helps with the coughing, which I still have.
He said it might take 10 weeks to get over it. He has calculated that at a week from tomorrow. If not better by then, they are going back in my throat to culture, etc., and see what is going one in there.
He gave me also, another antibiotic - the last kind available that I haven't taken - he said, to ensure there wasn't something lingering in a bacterial infection.
Oh well! We will see!
Rach
I think the 'scopy findings are similar to the ones in whooping cough. As far as I know diagnosis at this stage is by testing for 'pertussis antibodies' in blood.
You may visit : http://www.whoopingcough.net/For_doctors.htm , take a printout and give the same to your doctor.
Best rgds,
TA
I thought the same thing when he told me all of that. He actually gave me another antibiotic just in case? He told me that if it's not better by 1/27 we will need to look further. I just wish it would be over.
It was amazing that when he told me of the prognosis and had that puzzled look, I thought of what you had told me of the whooping cough information.
Many of the doctors disbelieve a diagnosis of adult whooping cough. As I told you earlier, it is 'fairly' new.
But the diagnosis now is 'presumptive' and it can be confirmed only once it goes away for good, after the 3-4 months. He has put you on yet another antibiotic, as he will not be able to forgive himself in case this is not whooping cough. You should know any diagnosis is an educated guess.
(At least now you can cough comfortably;-)
Best rgds
TA