WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for November, 1998: Response to LEA Re: -- dealing with RESPIRATORY SYSTEM

Response to LEA Re: -- dealing with RESPIRATORY SYSTEM

From: Connie (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 24 Nov 1998 07:25:42 -0600 (CST)

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Lea-- thank you for your reply -- No, I have no fever or any chills or anything like that. I have a constant cough that doesnt want to leave -- and I have that major pain in my rib-- it feels like a tightness, a nerve stuck in a bad spot or something - BUT REALLY BAD PAIN -- I can't move in and out of bed easily -- and when I have my coughing spell, I have to brace myself and hold onto my rib area because it hurts. I have had to stop all activities because of this. Just so you get an idea -- if I have to put my car in reverse and drive with my head turned facing back to pull out of a spot -- the pain is so severe that I just want to get out of the car and not drive at all. The pain shoots right through me! And the prob. is I am coughing all the time. The x-rays did not show any signs of pneumonia. SO this is a bad case of a COLD that my son brought home from school and I got contaminated and with my asthma it amplified - cause I started taking some over the counter medications for about a week when finally I was just coughing my guts out 24 hours a day. It turned into what my doctor called Broncho-tracheal infection. So here I am with unbearable pain -- I have seen my son's pediatrician who also specializes in adult asthma and allergy (immunology) i think it is called. He is a very good doctor. And then he sent me to a pulmonary specialist. But my medications have done nothing for me. I have no clue what else to do. Is there any kind of muscle relaxer or nerve relaxer that you think might do some good to ease this nerve out of its wrong place. It is just stuck in my rib, and every time I cough it gets more and more irritated. I am miserable.

Thank you for your help. Connie

24 Nov 1998, Lea wrote: >
>At Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Connie wrote:
>>
>Hi Connie,
>Good grief, sure sounds like you are having a really tough time of
>things. What type of doctor are you seeing - your regular physician? It
>sure sounds like you need some treatment that's a bit more aggressive.
>There are muscles as well as nerves surrounding the ribs - I know from
>personal experience that muscle injuries take a very long time to heal -
>more so when there is constant irritation. However, any and all other
>causes (like plueresy (sp) pneumonia, etc need to be ruled out) Other
>than the rib pain how are you feeling? (tightness? burning? breathless?
>fever?) Take stock of what's going on and be sure to relate all details
>(even those that may seem insignificant) to your doctor.
>About 3-4 months ago I was going through a very similar thing with my 12
>year old son. He's had a couple of sporadic episodes of asthma
>secondary to his allergies but this last one was a doozy -- it sounded
>just like bronchitis so I took him to the doctor - now mind you, this is
>a 2nd year resident in a family practice residency program at my local
>hospital. She heard a little bit of wheezing and he seemed to have a
>lot of trouble exhaling a full breath. She called the nurse practioner
>in and between the two of them they coached him through using a peak
>flow meter - he was barely hitting 250 and he should have been at 320.
>We left the office with a meter for home and 3 inhalers- a mast cell
>stabilizer, anti-inflammatory and bronchial dilator - duplicates of
>everything for home and school. He's doing much better now but had I
>just given him some cough medicine and kept him home from school a day
>or two he would have been in real trouble.
>
>--
>Lea
>

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