Question:
I have been getting the same sort of thing since last year. I had to go to the doctors for the sinus infection, went on anti-biotics and felt better while on them. As soon as I got off the anti-biotics it came back in full force so I waited a couple of weeks and had to go back. Docter said it was going into my lungs and was prescribed more anti-biotics, and allergy tests. I turned out to be allergic to mold, and tree pollutants. (Most of my left arm swelled up.) The allergy doctor prescribed me 2 puffers. One called FloVent HFA, and the other Salbutamol HFA. The puffers really did help a lot. I seemed to get better from then on. Now it's September again and I just started feeling feverish on September 2nd. Started to get the blocked sinuses and had a very wet cough, weezing when breathing, and I was having difficulty getting enough air to breath! I went to the doctors on Tuesday and she told me I had Bronchitis. She gave me anti-biotics again. It's now September 11th and I finished the anti-biotics on Sept. 8th. The fever went away for the weekend, and the anti-biotics made me feel better, but today I am starting to feel a little more pain again. My lungs are full of beige coloured stuff, and my nose is runny. I actually lost my job of 3 years when I got it last year from missing work, so I've only missed 1.5 days this time around. I've been coming in sick. It's horrible and I can't live with this. I've been taking my puffers from last year (still have some left) so hopefully it will help. I also started to have digestive problems like a year ago as well, so I went to my doctor and she thought I might have gull stones. She sent me for blood and stool tests, and I am still waiting for my ultrasound appointment scheduled for Sept. 19. My stomach started to hurt so badly on my upper right abdomen that I went to the emergency clinic and was prescribed a pill used for Irretable Bowel Disease and Crohn's Disease called Librax. It actually helped a great deal, but I've since ran out of the prescrition and am starting to be in pain again in my stomach as well. I have not had any results for any of the testing so I am in limbo. Don't really know what my next step will be, but I hope the ultra sound will help for the stomach problems. As fopr the Bronchitis I'm hoping I won't need to see the doc again, but I only will if it gets worse.
Answer:
Drug medications are supposed to mask the symptoms, not cure anything. Aside from that, medications, speaking from personal experience never helped me either. Your body is trying to rid itself of a virus and when you take drugs that dry you up like anthistamines and so forth, you are slowing that process down. Read my reply on the thread "help...very sick". It might be able to help you out. But if I were you, I would get off all the drugs as they can and often do just prolong your illness as you have seen and make you more sick. There is a lot of money wrapped up in the drug industry and no one makes money off of people that are healthy. Truth of the matter is, you have to be your own doctor cause no one else will care about your health more than you. I have a lot of advice on the thread I just mentioned you might want to look into cause it might help.
Answer:
Please consider "laryngopharyngeal reflux" (LPR) as the real condition. You have both respiratory and stomach problems, which is a big clue. Your respiratory problems may simply be caused by stomach acid traveling up the esophogous into the laryngeal /pharyngeal area, which has no protection against acid. As a result, you wind up with chronic coughing and mucous. When the acid gets out of that area and into the throat, you aspirate it into your lungs and get asthma. The stomach problems are likely linked to the acid reflux. So do a little research on it and check out the acid reflux board at healthboards.
Finally, it can be treated with 2 doses a day of a proton pump inhibitor like Nexium.
An ENT needs to scope you (stick a wire and camera up your nose and into your throat) to observe your larynx. If red and swollen, you have LPR.