The pulmonologist listens, and seems to genuinely get how frustrating it is to be coughing for 4 months straight. Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to have any clear ideas about how to make it stop.
He, like the rheumetologist, is still going on the idea that the asthma came along on its own, separately from the sarcoidosis and the cancer before that. I've told them both how ridiculous this is, but since there is no reasonable treatment for the sarcoid, they keep chasing the cough. Apparently, many people live perfectly healthy and active lives with sarcoidosis. I hope to be one of them someday!
So, this time I left with instructions to remove any and all possible allergens from my house and bedroom and 2 more drugs, one replaces one I'm already taking, the other is new. This brings me up to 4 meds just for the cough, tough creep that it is. I'm thinking of naming it...maybe not.
We're giving it a few more weeks. If I'm not better, then more scans to check the nodules' progress and I'll have to drop all the asthma drugs for a short duration of steroids. The asthma drugs better work.
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i hope they work too andrea!
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