Update update.

[rivka]

It's "just" my allergies. The unusually spectacular pollen season we've been having has irritated my bronchioles (I think) and swelled them up, and that's why the cough and the trouble breathing. They did a chest X-ray to make sure I didn't have pneumonia, and I didn't. Then they gave me an albuterol treatment, which left me wobbly-kneed but breathing better, and sent me home with a prescription for something called "tesselon perles" for my cough and instructions to drink plenty of fluids and see my primary care doctor.

The drive to the hospital and walk in from the waiting room left me wheezing and coughing badly enough that I jumped the whole line to get seen, which isn't as impressive as it sounds given that it was a suburban community hospital, but did tend to add to scaredness. I hit a really bad feedback loop, where my coughing and wheezing made me scared and then being scared made it harder to breathe. But I think everything should be okay now.

Comments

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

I dislike albuterol, it gives me the shakes. Unfortunately on the rare occasions my asthma plays up, it's the very best thing.

I'm glad you're going to be OK, and it's something easily treatable. Hugs offered.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

I dislike albuterol, it gives me the shakes.

It gave me the shakes too. I got up out of bed after the nebulizer treatment, and my knees were wobbling so much I had to grab the bedrails and hold on. She told me that was mostly because I wasn't used to it, so I hope it doesn't turn out to be an ongoing thing.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

I think it's only an ongoing thing for me because I only have to use it once a year or so. My body never gets habituated to it, so it never learns to mitigate the side-effects.

I hope things improve for you with time. And soon.