I know how you felt, people with copd feel that way pretty much all the time. That is why it's such great news about inf maybe "old-school" soon.
I don't know if this relates to an event that I had soon after tx - within the first week or two. I quickly developed what I thought was bronchitis - low grade fever, heaviness in chest, general malaise. Within days I stated to feel extremely sick, even worse than on tx - SOB becoming markedly worse, chest pain. Liver Dr. urged me to seek help close to home, went to Urgent Care, transferred to ER, ran chest X-ray and labs, left with a dx of "walking pneumonia" and an Rx for a potent antibiotic. I did feel better within days of taking the meds, but it scared me to bits. I remember feeling that I made it thru tx only to kick the bucket at EOT, I felt that bad.
Mike, I lost a customer to interstitial pneumonitis about 2 years ago.
They had been home a lot that summer, by mid summer I was informed of it, then was told that they were not satisfied w/local TX of the issue and were going to a better hospital. I attended her funeral in October, if memory serves. They seemed to go from impaired to on life support in about 4 months.
When you get diagnosed with this, there is but one prognosis. The only question is how long? Essentially her immune system attacked her lungs, and in a short period of time they were rendered useless.
She was a great lady and gone way too soon.
willy
Just one more reason that hopefully in the future INF.can be taken out of the mix.
Thx for the article...
WILL