Guest guest Posted September 15, 2007 Report Share Posted September 15, 2007 , I am having monthly blood work for anemia and liver function. So far so good. I even have been working hard to get my cholesterol down and it is working. I haven't done any sinus flushing but it sounds like I need to. I am going to go see my PCP in sick call on Monday because I feel like I might be getting an infection. I don't have any apnea so I don't have a CPAP; I just need to get my deviated septum fixed and maybe I wouldn't snore so much. Thanks for the advice and I appreciate everything you do. Terri G. PS. BTW, I will try the b12. > > > In a message dated 9/14/2007 1:45:47 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > mosaicgirl1@... writes: > > my question is this: could these problems be worsening because of the > Imuran or could it be I am not taking enough? Does anyone else get severe > fatigue from Imuran? > > > One of the challenges of any of the immunosupressants is the increased > fatigue. I do hope your MD is doing monthly CBC's and LFT's-- (liver function > tests) as well as supplementing you with Folic Acid-(B12.) > It is easy to end up with Pernicious Anemia- but that can really be avoided > with the Folic Acid. You should be on 1mg a day. > I know you said you take the Mucinex daily-- make sure you get the Sinus > Rinse and flush whatever gunk is laying in your sinuses out. You may also want > to see an ENT and get them to do a culture so that if you have any staph- > that the antibiotics they are putting you on actually knock out the infection. > So many times our MD's just give us a " cover-all the bases " antibiotic and > we've become resistant to them-- so we need something different. > If you use a cpap, make sure you wash your mask daily-- at least the latex > part, and replace the tubing once a month. The humidifiers on our cpap > machines also need to be washed with dish soap (try to find ones that don't have > much in the way of scent) and use hot water at high pressure to rinse them. > I also use only distilled water in the cpap humidifier, so that i don't get > anything growing in the canister. > > Take care, > Tracie > > > > ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 15, 2007 Report Share Posted September 15, 2007 , I am having monthly blood work for anemia and liver function. So far so good. I even have been working hard to get my cholesterol down and it is working. I haven't done any sinus flushing but it sounds like I need to. I am going to go see my PCP in sick call on Monday because I feel like I might be getting an infection. I don't have any apnea so I don't have a CPAP; I just need to get my deviated septum fixed and maybe I wouldn't snore so much. Thanks for the advice and I appreciate everything you do. Terri G. PS. BTW, I will try the b12. > > > In a message dated 9/14/2007 1:45:47 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > mosaicgirl1@... writes: > > my question is this: could these problems be worsening because of the > Imuran or could it be I am not taking enough? Does anyone else get severe > fatigue from Imuran? > > > One of the challenges of any of the immunosupressants is the increased > fatigue. I do hope your MD is doing monthly CBC's and LFT's-- (liver function > tests) as well as supplementing you with Folic Acid-(B12.) > It is easy to end up with Pernicious Anemia- but that can really be avoided > with the Folic Acid. You should be on 1mg a day. > I know you said you take the Mucinex daily-- make sure you get the Sinus > Rinse and flush whatever gunk is laying in your sinuses out. You may also want > to see an ENT and get them to do a culture so that if you have any staph- > that the antibiotics they are putting you on actually knock out the infection. > So many times our MD's just give us a " cover-all the bases " antibiotic and > we've become resistant to them-- so we need something different. > If you use a cpap, make sure you wash your mask daily-- at least the latex > part, and replace the tubing once a month. The humidifiers on our cpap > machines also need to be washed with dish soap (try to find ones that don't have > much in the way of scent) and use hot water at high pressure to rinse them. > I also use only distilled water in the cpap humidifier, so that i don't get > anything growing in the canister. > > Take care, > Tracie > > > > ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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