My doctor was baffled by my persistent cough/coughing fits. I would get a cold and it would take months for me to stop coughing. Every time I took a deep breath, I had to concentrate on not coughing, or I would be bent over double for the next 5 minutes trying to hack a lung out.
I finally asked my doctor if I might have some type of sub acute asthma? He said sure and gave me some inhalers.
Last year when that doctor had retired, I got sick again, went to a new internist described my symptoms and what had worked before, and he prescribed Advair, and Albuterol. In a week I was all better. This doctors said I really didn’t have asthma, but rather bronchospasms.
So it seems that these two drugs are sometimes given when a person does not have asthma.
At the last college I attended, they always assumed mono. So every time you’d go in there, even though you told them “I think I have a sinus infection, I’ve had them a million times, same symptoms, give me amoxicillin” or “my stomach hurts” they’d always draw blood. Always.
And I went there when I had the flu. Got a z-pack. No fun. Possible side effect that I experienced - vomiting. So I had the regular flu AND the stomach flu pretty much.
As far as what the other message board is, I’m not going to say. Exactly where I got that advice is irrelevant.
There’s a big difference between “voluntarily engaging in discussion on a more-or-less anonymous message board about certain sexual practices/habits/etc” and “being asked intrusive and irrelevant personal questions by a figure of authority.” And, just for the record, I’m not currently sexually active - it’s been a while.
Almost every time I get sick, it heads downward. Advair really helps me out. I’m terrible about going in to the doctor - typically, I’ve had a cough for several months before going. Anyway, I now take advair with a cold to prevent the cold from becoming a cough. I don’t think it’s such a crazy thing.
You know, you can not fill stuff and see if you get better on your own.
Aside - what’ya think of the albuterol - make ya feel funny?
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The name/type of message board is relevant. How else does one know whether to trust it. If you you were in our shoes, we would say that you’re stupid for trusting advice on a nameless message board over that of an CPN.
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A nurse/doctor is not a figure of authority. They are your health monitors. If they deem your sexual history to be relevant, then it is and you should answer it. It’s not intrusive, and none of them care.
Uh, no. Pb is peanutbutter.
“Hmm, this sandwhich is really heavy. What’s in it?”
Gosh, I’ve prescribed Advair literally thousands of times. But I don’t believe I have ever prescribed it for someone who didn’t have a diagnosis of Mild peristant or more severe asthma, or (far less frequently) COPD.
And I’d have a word or 3 with any of my underlings who prescribed it for an otherwise healthy person with an acute self-limited respiratory illness.
There’s a slim chance he was really in the 1954 Filipino movie and not in a student clinic at all.
No idea why you ended up with what you did. 2 ways to solve this: go back to the Nurse Practioner and ASK her and/or go to another doctor. Just a thought.
Hope you’re feeling better.
Just to note on this, my sister played sports her entire life, year round, and didn’t develop asthma until the end of HS/beginning of college. Never had asthmatic tendencies, either. Interestingly, lactose intolerance showed up around then, too. I’m not saying it has anything to do with what you have, just that sometimes illnesses like asthma can appear in otherwise healthy people.
Would that make FN fluffernutter?
Robin
How you doin’? 
Just kidding. Fair enough, I suppose.
I trust several of the posters on the other board as much as I trust a response from QtM or another one of our own resident doctors. It has several posters that claim to be doctors, and judging from their responses, I have no reason to doubt them. Everything they say fits with my own (limited) knowledge of medicine and physiology, and it checks out with outside sources. There is no reason to believe she’s getting bad information from them just because it’s “the internet.”
I’m not saying she’s wrong, or that the nurse wasn’t incompetent. And i wouldn’t even expect her to name this message board, since that’s kind of looked down upon here. It’s just that from my point of view, she can’t garner any sympathy.
On the other side of this coin at least 2 posters in this thread have had those exact two medicines prescribed for what appear to be the exact same symptoms after a physical exam by a doctor IRL.
In both of these cases, the medicine helped the symptoms. In my case several times over the years.
Furthermore this combo also worked in the OP’s case.
I don’t see the justification for the pitting.
Maybe this is one of those contentious issues in medicine - the nurse practitioner and various doctors of posters (me included) are on one side of the debate, and the doctors on the other message board and Qadgop are on the other side. I do know that the combo works fine for me (I’ve had to use it more than once); at this point (Qadgop, cover your ears), I self-medicate with my husband’s asthma medication when I feel my lungs getting into that positive feedback loop, and it works instantly to head off the months of endless unproductive coughing.
At Christmas I developed a persistent unproductive cough; after a week of feeling like I was hacking up a lung I finally saw a doctor about it. He detected some bronchial blockage and diagnosed it as “temporary asthma” (I seem to remember him saying something to the med student who was with him at the exam that it was something more common in children) and prescribed an albuterol inhaler to be used every six hours for at least a week.
The coughing eased up after a few days and disappeared within a week. I did develop a pulled muscle from all the coughing I was doing, but that seems to be fading with time.
I went for my checkup the other day. Doctor said everything was fine . Then a nurse prac came in with prescriptions when doc left and suggested colon cleaning and body detoxing. I left little confused.
Er… I was under the impression that most physicians regarded colon cleansing as quackery. Did you see a homeopathic doctor?
No doc was fine. He left and the paperwork was delivered by his nurse who came up with this.