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Legend
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I’m sitting here in disbelief that this could be happening to me

I’m sitting here in my room still stunned by what my nurse practitioner told me today at my primary care clinic I don’t want to believe it. I am having bad coughing now but it has been off and on dry coughing for years but not as bad as now so I went to my primary clinic today and told her my cough is bad and my lungs are hurting really bad and stinging and I told her I thought it was from the cough my lungs were hurting. The nurse practitioner did an X-Ray of my lungs and she said COPD to me but she has to let someone else look at my X-Ray to see what they think. I was taken off of Lisinopril to see if it helps my cough go away and put on Valsartan a low dose for now. My nurse practitioner said for now she only wanted the X-Ray not a CT scan and now I have to wait to see what this other person says about my X-Ray. My lungs hurt so bad it feels like someone has repeatedly punched me. I was told I have muscles that could be hurting from the coughing also and that could be my pain and stinging. I am on something for a cough and I was told take something for my allergies because I am having allergy symptoms also going on that is making my cough bad also. This feeling of hopelessness has come over me now if I have COPD because there is no cure for it. I will just have to wait to see what is wrong with my lungs and see what kind of test I will need to have to verify COPD or not. I was also told my heart looks enlarged on the X-Ray. I will just have to wait and see what happens now if my cough gets better or not and the pain I am having and I hope I don’t have COPD now. Just writing this because I feel very upset I hate waiting for results from the Dr. Office.  

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                                Update on 12-23-2019

I have an update on my X-Ray. I got a call just before 5:00pm today from the nurse at my primary care clinic not the nurse practitioner that said she thought I had COPD. The nurse said a radiologist had looked at my X-Ray and said NO COPD was found only scar tissue in my left lung but that is not what could be causing my bad cough. I was relieved to hear the news about my X-Ray but also angry at the same time that I had to go through this. I am still going to tell my cardiologist what happened and see if I can get a test to look into this scar tissue in my left lung and have her look at this X-Ray. I asked the nurse what can cause scar tissue in my lung and she asked was I a smoker and I said yes and she said that can cause scar tissue. I was told by my nurse practitioner she thought I had COPD in both lungs but at the beginning stage she thought oh my gosh I have been through the ringer with emotions. It was comforting to have all of you get me through this and if I did have COPD I had people here with COPD showing me the way what to do next. This place is amazing you are all wonderful every one of you being there for me when I felt hopeless you picked me up and gave me hope to have a good life still. I asked the nurse to please call something in for my cough because what I am using is not all that great and she said it would be next Monday before the nurse practitioner was back to do that. I will put this update below in comments and up above in my blog just to make sure everyone gets updated and sees this. Thank you all for being here for me to get me in a better frame of mind when I needed it.  

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indingrl
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Your welcome

Legend
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                                      Update 12-23-2019

I have an update on my X-Ray. I got a call just before 5:00pm today from the nurse at my primary care clinic not the nurse practitioner that said she thought I had COPD. The nurse said a radiologist had looked at my X-Ray and said NO COPD was found only scar tissue in my left lung but that is not what could be causing my bad cough. I was relieved to hear the news about my X-Ray but also angry at the same time that I had to go through this. I am still going to tell my cardiologist what happened and see if I can get a test to look into this scar tissue in my left lung and have her look at this X-Ray. I asked the nurse what can cause scar tissue in my lung and she asked was I a smoker and I said yes and she said that can cause scar tissue. I was told by my nurse practitioner she thought I had COPD in both lungs but at the beginning stage she thought oh my gosh I have been through the ringer with emotions. It was comforting to have all of you get me through this and if I did have COPD I had people here with COPD showing me the way what to do next. This place is amazing you are all wonderful every one of you being there for me when I felt hopeless you picked me up and gave me hope to have a good life still. I asked the nurse to please call something in for my cough because what I am using is not all that great and she said it would be next Monday before the nurse practitioner was back to do that. I will put this update below in comments and up above in my blog just to make sure everyone gets updated and sees this. Thank you all for being here for me to get me in a better frame of mind when I needed it.  

indingrl
Member

HOORAY FOR MY LORD JESUS

Legend
Member

indingrl  Yes Hooray for Lord Jesus he is with us always. 

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JACKIE1-25-15
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Prayers answered.  Amen Thank you Lord.

Legend
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JACKIE1-25-15  Yep prayers answered thank you Lord Jesus. Amen

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Giulia
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I can feel your relief.  And your anger.  Find a different Nurse Practioner, say I.  And why can't the nurse at your primary care clinic phone in something to relieve your cough?  I know - don't ask.  

At least you can rest a whole lot easier now in your head. ♥

Legend
Member

Giulia  I wish we had another clinic in my area that took my insurance but so far none I am out in the hill country and all the good places to go are far away and hard for me to drive with my spinal problems going on. Maybe soon we will have someone new in my area I hope that will be better for me.

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Giulia
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I totally understand.  With my insurance if there isn't someone "in network" within a certain amount of miles within my geographic area, then I can still go to and "out of network place"  and not pay more than normal for it.  Might be something to look into with your insurance policy?  Give them a call and find out.

Meanwhile - when I didn't have any insurance whatsoever, which was at least half my life, I had to figure out how to solve my own health problems.  And so may I suggest you do the same if you can't get the help you need.  We have to take control of our own health - in any way we can.  Kind of like quitting.  Perseverance, education, knowledge... 

FIND the answer.  Crap.  That's easy to say, so much harder to do, I know, but all the same...find the answer.  Pursuit and perseverance will usually provide one.  It may not be one you LIKE, but it will provide one.  

Sorry for your plight.  

Legend
Member

 Giulia   I can always look into what is available and what is not again. I am looking into right now a condition called silent reflux that can give me a bad cough just like the one I have been having for so long so I ordered a book last night about silent reflux and the cook book that might help and from what I have read about silent reflux not to eat I have already stopped eating those foods that can make me worse. So I think I am going in a positive direction doing something that might get to the root of my problem. Tomorrow I am going to the store and look for something different for a cough to see if it helps more than what I am taking. I remember a long time ago I had a rash on my face as red as a piece of red meat and went to the dermatologist 3 times and he gave me samples of this and that to try and nothing helped me. I had this rash for at least 6 months and it felt like something was crawling under my skin and it burned. I finally researched a lot of stuff to help me and bought some zinc oxide paste and would put that on my face every night pretty thick and wore it all night long an then in the day time I put Avon collagen booster on my face to sooth my face (and Avon does not make this anymore it had vitamin c and collagen in it) and finally I saw my rash get better and better then it was gone. I had cured my own rash and my dermatologist could not and I paid him all that money and no cure from him. I still don’t know what I had on my face but it is gone now. I will keep trying to find out what is wrong one way or another I will find an answer it is out there I just have to find it.

Here is a blog talking about silent reflux that ClearColors wrote and I got the book mentioned in this blog I hope it helps me I have reflux pretty bad. I put this link here in case someone else is having a serious reflux problem with a bad cough and wants to read this post.

All smokers and Exsmokers have degrees of acid reflux