Re: Pink Joyce and statistics...and NAC

January 8, 2010

Pink Joyce

Does NAC actually decrease the mucus? I understood it thinned it and thereby

made it easier to expel. So if you have a lot of " thick " mucus do you get more

as it is thinned? When I take the NAC I seem to be OK for a few days and then

it starts getting nasty because I am coughing all of the time because I feel

like I have more mucus. I lay off for a few days and the cough decreases in

frequency, but is harder because the mucus is thicker again. I have an added

complication because I injured/tore an intercostal muscle along the rib cage and

it hurts so much when I cough. I has been a month since I injured the muscle

and it still hurts. They told me it could take 2 months or longer for the

muscle to heal, and with me coughing all of the time.. it could take longer.

Darned if I do cough, darned if I don't!!

Stefani 61 year old Utahn

ILD 2/2006, NSIP (fibrotic) 10/2009, Diabetes II 2/2006, Sleep Apnea 4/2009

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> Subject: Pink Joyce and statistics...

> Date: Thursday, January 7, 2010, 2:59 PM

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> Yeah, I love the thought of making those doctors that said 3-5 years out to be

the dumbest jerks around. The doctor in Denver told me he saw no reason I

shouldn't be able to live another 10 years. He doesn't know what I am doing

right, but he says I appear to be stable (I brought xrays and CT scans to Denver

in June from February of 2006). His only recommendation was to add the NAC. I

take it, but some days not if I am having real issues with too much mucous. My

pulmo dude here seems to be surprised at the lack of rapid progression. I love

surprising them! I am going for a new record! Whatever that may be.

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> Stefani 61 year old Utahn

> ILD 2/2006, NSIP (fibrotic) 10/2009, Diabetes II 2/2006, Sleep Apnea 4/2009

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