AKmom
Senior member
- Joined
- Jun 2, 2010
- Messages
- 608
- Reason
- DX UMND/PLS
- Diagnosis
- 11/2009
- Country
- US
- State
- Alaska
- City
- Wasilla
Ok, was down with pnuemonia all last week! Still very weak and fatigued but I think I have this thing kicked with all the antibiotics they have me on. Feeling much better today, but still exhaust easily.
Does it take longer to get this stuff cleared out when you cannot cough hard? I have had a few coughing spasms where I cannot breath in much or cough out but my whole body goes into a spasm and the cough is continual. I have had two fits like this, and I can only imaging that the pls is aggrevated to cause them to be worse than if I hadn't had pls. The first one was 3 nights ago and during it a sharp pain started in my lower right abdomin. Once the spasming stopped, the pain stopped. But everytime I coughed, the sharp pain would be there in the same place. I thought maybe I pulled an adhesion since its been said by the last surgeon that cut into my abdomin, that my whole insides are adhered to the wall lining of my abdomin from scar tissue (adhesions).
Then the second cough spasms happened 2 nights ago. That very sharp pain was present but with each cough it started to spread! It was like paper tearing....it crept upward and toward my right side until finally the whole side would have the sharp pain deep inside. It really doesn't feel like the muscle because if I had injured the muscle, it would have hurt to move or push on the muscle. Its deeper than that! No swelling or anything. I am wondering if I should go to the doc...but then I think why waste his time and mine because I really do not think anything can be done. If it was going to be something that would kill me, like an apendix pulled apart or intenstine break, I would have had more problems by now and had gone to the ER.
I hate having to figure things out for myself. That is always been the case for me hasn't it? Ok enough complaining. I guess this pls makes everything more complicated. So am back to start reading things again and posting when I can. Hope you all are doing fine.
Does it take longer to get this stuff cleared out when you cannot cough hard? I have had a few coughing spasms where I cannot breath in much or cough out but my whole body goes into a spasm and the cough is continual. I have had two fits like this, and I can only imaging that the pls is aggrevated to cause them to be worse than if I hadn't had pls. The first one was 3 nights ago and during it a sharp pain started in my lower right abdomin. Once the spasming stopped, the pain stopped. But everytime I coughed, the sharp pain would be there in the same place. I thought maybe I pulled an adhesion since its been said by the last surgeon that cut into my abdomin, that my whole insides are adhered to the wall lining of my abdomin from scar tissue (adhesions).
Then the second cough spasms happened 2 nights ago. That very sharp pain was present but with each cough it started to spread! It was like paper tearing....it crept upward and toward my right side until finally the whole side would have the sharp pain deep inside. It really doesn't feel like the muscle because if I had injured the muscle, it would have hurt to move or push on the muscle. Its deeper than that! No swelling or anything. I am wondering if I should go to the doc...but then I think why waste his time and mine because I really do not think anything can be done. If it was going to be something that would kill me, like an apendix pulled apart or intenstine break, I would have had more problems by now and had gone to the ER.
I hate having to figure things out for myself. That is always been the case for me hasn't it? Ok enough complaining. I guess this pls makes everything more complicated. So am back to start reading things again and posting when I can. Hope you all are doing fine.