So cold----> pneumonia for the 1st time.
I've been on antibiotics (they changed it sometime last week) for 11 days, but I keep coughing. I'm miserable and don't want/fell up to doing anything but sit on the couch. I feel so guilty that my house is a mess and my constant coughing must be driving my husband nuts...

He says he can hear me coughing outside our apt. I'm sure that my neighbors can hear me... they probably think I'm disgusting or dying or something. It's embarrassing. My chest hurts from the pneumonia and my head and neck hurt from the cough.

Mucinex & cough suppressants haven't worked for me. Still getting little bits up tho. I know it's not the best idea to take a cough suppressant when I have pneumonia, but I'm going to try a new cough medicine with one in it. I've still smoking like a jackass....

I have 4 cigarettes left and that's it. It's really time to stop.

I'm going to use that electronic cigarette & nicotine gum & regular gum. I hope it sticks this time. Not easy with hubby smoking and unwilling to quit.

-Kay

wow kay!
I am so sorry that you are still this sick.
please continue with the mucinex to bring up the stuff that needs to come up.
I know how it hurts to cough they make that spray stuff that numbs your throat....can't rmeember the name of it but that can help.
cough drops helped me but I was also taking anti histamines, what does your doctor say to take?
YOu are drinking plenty of fluids, warmed helps the throat but so does ice cold stuff too so try both.
I used robitussin dm cough syrup jsut a couple of weeks ago it has the decongestant in it also. I would suck on a cough drop at night putting it by my check so no danger of choking on it.
sorry that you are going thru this...I so relate to you.
stoping smoking will help your over all health in so many ways...good for you for trying.
wish your hubby would get on board too.
bizi

Dear Kay,

Did your mdoc give you any cough medicine?
I remember getting a good script when I had bronchitis.

Pneuomonia makes a person weak. Take it easy. You don't have to clean or do anything except get well.

The us gov has some web sites to help with quitting smoking. Have you seen some of those?
http://www.smokefree.gov/medication-guide.aspx
I've heard that essentially you need at least two tools -- great that you are planing on two. How about the patches as well?

Mari

Thanks Ladies!

Day 1: no butts so far I'm not missing them.

I can't use the patch because I go nutty- it heightens my anxiety & MS spasticity. It's better for me to be able to control the amount of nicotine I'm getting.

I'm feeling a little bit better today. I've decided not to take anymore cough suppressants... I want all this crap up and out ASAP.
I took a pass on the prescription cough medicine because of the codeine. It makes me nauseous, sweaty and really out of it.

Thanks,
Kay

Good Luck Kay!!!

and i do hope you start to feel MUCH better soon!



~ waves ~

You are doing great!
M.

Thanks guys!

Still no butts! I was smoking in my dreams last night tho. Lots of urges this morning, but I didn't cave.

Still coughing, but I'm feeling a little better today. No fever today either! Woo-hoo! I called my mdoc's secretary again to ask for the results of the tests I had done almost 2 weeks ago. Still waiting.

-Kay

p.s. I just re-read my post... and started thinking I'm sensitive to a ton of drugs. So is my sister.

I am glad that you are feeling a little bit better today...darn cough!

Oh, Kay,
Fever is gone! Good news.
I hope that you continue to feel better each day.

You are doing great . . . on your way to being free of the cigs.

M.

Dear Kay,

Good morning!

Did the 11 days of antibiotics help?
I hope that you are feeling better.

M.