OMG that stuff is awesome. I took 5mg about 4 hours ago and now I can take a real breath! I feel like I'm leaping around on the moon! Air is intoxicatingly beautiful. It goes all the way in and hits some kind of previously unreachable sweet spot inside my lungs. It's still all cold & fiery in that horrible bronchitis way, but there's air in there!
I wonder what my blood oxygen level was, before... I feel alert and keen, and suddenly like the whole world is more loveable... way less anxious...
As soon as Moomin comes out of the bathtub I'm going to go steam myself some more. And then to bed super early.
Lungs - really - take a minute to appreciate how lovely they are when they're working! For just a minute I feel like my body is a beautiful machine instead of a stubborn old mule I'm stuck riding. (Cheerful
steroid delirium? Or oxygen intoxication?)
Hello Badger, I understand about the prednisone but please be careful about self-medicating with it. My partner has had to take courses of it in the past and while it works there are also some pretty dramatic "mood" side effects associated with it for some people. In my partner's own word's it made her a short tempered bitch when she was on it, almost like pmsing for the whole course of steroids. I'm lucky I still have a head it was bitten off so many times lol.
Anyway I'm very glad you're feeling better. I enjoy your blogs and would give you a folk remedy for yuckky chest but am scared you'd spit some of that dreaded sputum toward my poor ip address lol.
blaize
Posted by: blaize | November 10, 2006 at 01:25 AM
Thanks Blaize! Yes.. my ex-husband also I think had the severe mood swings from lots of prednisone. For me I think it's more of a mild elation. I'll watch out!
I guess i was a giant bitch about people's remedies... hmm. But surely anyone who's had a chronic illness knows what I mean.
Posted by: badgerbag | November 10, 2006 at 08:19 AM
No, you weren't a "giant bitch" & yes my partner has expressed similar frustration at times too, often with me because I didn't want her taking the kind of stuff that'd damage her lungs, her liver etc etc & I would scour the net looking for anything that could be subbed for the prescription stuff. I found some humdingers too lol but if I had even hinted at the whale thing she'd have had me committed lol.
Everyone will understand lol just don't expect not to be teased about it.
Posted by: blaize | November 10, 2006 at 08:29 AM
Back when I had ovarian issues my family always asked me to "look at my life issues" having to do with children or reproduction or etc, as if my ovaries were sending me a message. It was totally fucking irritating because damn it, I was just sick, nothing else, and I didn't CHOOSE to be ill and had no control over it. So I know what you mean about the emotion assvice people give.
Posted by: Jo | November 10, 2006 at 08:49 AM
When people say stuff like that though it's because they feel mostly helpless and it's easier to project the symptoms of the illness onto the sufferer as some kind of odd character defect rather than accept that illnesses can strike randomly and we don't have much or any control over them. Of course it's silly to say it, because all it does is make the poor suffering sod feel even worse and like a whiny wimp who shouldn't be complaining.
But now I have images of the ovary command centre sending messages out, "Respect me I am empress of the eggoverse bwahahaha".
Posted by: blaize | November 10, 2006 at 09:25 AM
I am so glad you are feeling better!!
A doctor put me on a weird course of steroids for pain once -- it was totally bizarre! I felt better, but I'd have these bizarre peaks and valleys in my mood and energy... I was glad I was on it, but I was also glad it was only a six-day course.
Posted by: g. | November 10, 2006 at 02:38 PM
I don't know if I've ever mentioned it here but the 'Breathe Easy' tea you can get at the grocery store really is marvelous with my asthma. it's mostly licorice and it's very soothing. i've been living largely bent over my humidifier.
I'm getting over a bad sinus infection and I thought I was so smart being proactive with the advair to avoid a bad lung infection. But I think it just went a different way and now one eye is swollen and I have a stye on the other!
Hope you feel better soon-
signed your sister of the steam
Posted by: Heather | November 14, 2006 at 03:14 AM
OMG Heather but as I read this a sip of Breathe Easy tea was in my mouth.
yr sister in the nasty-o-lyptus....
Posted by: badgerbag | November 14, 2006 at 07:25 AM