Antibiotics

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

There are lots of antibiotics available, especially broad spectrum that can knock out an infection.

However, if you have a stubburn infection, you need to get a sputum culture done to identifiy the bug

I grow pseudomonas and need Cipro and Inhaled Tobramycin.

Glad the air vaporizor is helping you.

Best wishes,

Bunny

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

There are lots of antibiotics available, especially broad spectrum that can knock out an infection.

However, if you have a stubburn infection, you need to get a sputum culture done to identifiy the bug

I grow pseudomonas and need Cipro and Inhaled Tobramycin.

Glad the air vaporizor is helping you.

Best wishes,

Bunny

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

There are lots of antibiotics available, especially broad spectrum that can knock out an infection.

However, if you have a stubburn infection, you need to get a sputum culture done to identifiy the bug

I grow pseudomonas and need Cipro and Inhaled Tobramycin.

Glad the air vaporizor is helping you.

Best wishes,

Bunny

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

I’ve been in hospital for 2 weeks, but I noticed an email where you’d been told you won’t be given abx, even though your sp production was high, and, I guess, not feeling so well. Sorry to hear you had to put up with such an appalling response from those educated and paid to help you.

There are reasons for choice in the do/don’t choice of abx, but without knowing more, it’s hard to say anything of help. You said no Pseudomonas, and no something else..?. (have lost your email). What pathogens have been found?

Copious and purulent sputum production is just a main feature of bronchiectasis – so the texts say, but they don’t say if that occurs without infx, or is due to the rate of frequent infx exacerbations people w bronch experience.... Can you ask/afford an appointment, armed with a list of questions and insist on answers – even if that means “I don’t know” (which I’d much prefer to a blank-nothing-look, avoidance, evasiveness...). Can you change doctor/specialist? You need to know, it is important for you to know, you are eventually the one who has to start making decisions and choices whether to/or not to....whatever. And you are the one who lives with this condition/syndrome 24/7, not your pulmonologist, or whomever.

I’ve found it distressing to hear glib comments, eg, after a fracture of T8 vertebrae and subsequent dx of osteoporosis “oh, yes, we did notice an indication of poor bone density [on chest x-rays]....”, and, “oh yes, there were more cysts [in lungs] than we first noticed [3 yrs ago]”. There had been ample opportunity for that information to be given to me, had seen these same docs who knew these things, but failed to pass that information to me – casually referring to things relating to my health management of considerable importance to me, the person living with ... After this last 2 wks in hospital I really think specialists especially are dumb. They’re good at academic rote-learning - but assess, evaluate, understand, extrapolate, think laterally ...? I think not.

Not that my tirade will help you... But it is important you insist on why, what, ‘please explain’. I hope you’ve had some progress, and better still, that you’re feeling better?

Talk soon?

joy