Re: Cough-Jerry

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Dot, I still want to laugh, and I do occasionally, but most times that will lead

to coughing. It would be nice to have one of those laughs that come from way

down and just keep coming until your sides hurt. And I took Elavil also in my

younger days. It did help with sleep and also mood, but imipramine lets me be

who I am supposed to be. I hope you are feeling strong mentally. I feel better

now mentally than at any other time of my life. Without imipramine, I couldn't

have come so far with this disease. I cry when listening to music. Just last

week I cried while listening to Clair De Lune, but it was one of those happy

cries that I don't mind at all now.

And I can relate to your having a gorrible time with you rbiopsy. I had gone in

to the biopsy with a lung function of greater than 60%. Six weeks later at

Tulane, my lung function was less than 40%. Even with O2, the 6MW was stopped

before completion. I wish we knew more about what about our biopsy caused such a

problem. I hope you are back to where you should be after your biopsy. I

wouldn't discourage anyone from having a biopsy, since normally it goes

smoothly. Still we don't know as much as we should.

Jerry/Mississippi/54/IPF/dx April 05

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> > > > > >>From: tdip3kids tdip3kids (AT) yahoo (DOT) com>

> > > > > >>Subject: Cough

> > > > > >>To: Breathe-Support@ yahoogroups. com

> > > > > >>Date: Monday, August 31, 2009, 10:12 AM

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> > > > > >>I was diagnosed with IPF in Dec 2006. I am on 4 ltr oxygen and

> > > Symbicort. How do you deal with this coughing? I also have a poor

> > > appetite and when I do eat, it's a small portion.

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