8th September 2006
Hi everyone.
I have had Asthma since I was a child and the last 2 years my Asthma has been poorly controlled even though I avoid triggers and take my medication all the time. I recently had a Xray(2/3 months ago) and was told there is scarring on my lungs and it looked like I had Pnuemonia recently too.
Just over a week ago I continued to have Asthma attacks and I had a continous attack for 5 hours. I finally got a doctors appointment and was given antibiotics and a intense course of steroids. I was told my airways are very imflammed and there is a lot of mucus on my lungs/airways.
The meds seemed to help because I was barely taking my blue inhaler. But 4 days ago I came down with a 48hour bug and felt awful. Now I have a very very bad cough which sounds harsh and everytime I cough I can hear phelgm on my chest. And to top it all off, I've been wheezing all day and can feel the phelgm on my chest.
While I'm sitting down I'm ok but when I'm standing up, this starts off the coughing and/or the wheezing. There is definitely a lot of phelgm there and I can feel it most of the time. I'm having dizzy spells and feel tired/achy but this cough and gunk on my chest is really getting me down now. I guess I'm scared it will go into pnuemonia again because this cough is definitely not normal for me. I also noticed earlier than my nails look a purplish colour but not real dark purple. Just faint purplish or sometimes 2 nails become a purplish colour while the rest are white or faint pink. Weird. Also when I put my hand on my chest I can feel and hear the wheeing and phlegm underneath.
What could it be? Could this be pnuemonia setting in?
I'm on these inhalers: Ventolin, Beclazone, Seretide and Singulair.
Thank you
I have had Asthma since I was a child and the last 2 years my Asthma has been poorly controlled even though I avoid triggers and take my medication all the time. I recently had a Xray(2/3 months ago) and was told there is scarring on my lungs and it looked like I had Pnuemonia recently too.
Just over a week ago I continued to have Asthma attacks and I had a continous attack for 5 hours. I finally got a doctors appointment and was given antibiotics and a intense course of steroids. I was told my airways are very imflammed and there is a lot of mucus on my lungs/airways.
The meds seemed to help because I was barely taking my blue inhaler. But 4 days ago I came down with a 48hour bug and felt awful. Now I have a very very bad cough which sounds harsh and everytime I cough I can hear phelgm on my chest. And to top it all off, I've been wheezing all day and can feel the phelgm on my chest.
While I'm sitting down I'm ok but when I'm standing up, this starts off the coughing and/or the wheezing. There is definitely a lot of phelgm there and I can feel it most of the time. I'm having dizzy spells and feel tired/achy but this cough and gunk on my chest is really getting me down now. I guess I'm scared it will go into pnuemonia again because this cough is definitely not normal for me. I also noticed earlier than my nails look a purplish colour but not real dark purple. Just faint purplish or sometimes 2 nails become a purplish colour while the rest are white or faint pink. Weird. Also when I put my hand on my chest I can feel and hear the wheeing and phlegm underneath.
What could it be? Could this be pnuemonia setting in?
I'm on these inhalers: Ventolin, Beclazone, Seretide and Singulair.
Thank you