Showing posts with label bronchitis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bronchitis. Show all posts

Saturday, April 11, 2009

The Doctor, the Diagnosis

As the day wore on today I kept getting worse so I decided to go to the Dr.  By the time I got there I could barely get any air into my lungs.  My chest hurt, my back hurt and my head hurt from lack of oxygen.  Each breath sounded worse!  I told the girl at the desk I couldn't breathe and she proceeded to get together a bunch of forms for me to fill out.  I couldn't even tell you what I wrote or if it's ledgible.  I just wanted some help!  After about 30 minutes of rasping for breath in the waiting room I finally got to go back.  3 1/2 hours later I am back home.  My oxygen levels were low.  Duh!  I had two nebulizer breathing treatments, a steroid shot and came home with 4 prescriptions.  Diagnosis - Bronchitis, sinus infection, respiratory distress.  If my oxygen levels had not come up after the treatments I would have been going to the hospital. But thankfully they really helped and I'm feeling better except that I still have a croupy cough, my nose is dripping, my head hurts, my heart is racing from the treatments and I'm shaking like a leaf.  But at least I can breathe.  Going to rest now.