I took the medications as the doctor prescribed, but there was no relief. My butt hurt from the injections, my cough didn’t go away, and in addition to this I developed shortness of breath. Like the cough, it started unnoticed, but every day it appeared more and more often. February 8 came, I took a blood test, before that the day before I finished budesonide inhalations, and 2 days earlier ceftriaxone injections, but this did not bring me any relief. I realized that the therapist had misdiagnosed me and decided to make an appointment with a pulmonologist. But it turned out that everything was already booked until the end of February ((As I understood from the therapist’s warning, it’s not worth using Budesonide constantly. But something had to be done, I understood that without drug support I would only get worse. I was no longer worried so much about the cough as about the shortness of breath. I’ll say more, she scared me. I began to feel out of breath as soon as I started talking while walking. Even if I was silent and tried to concentrate on breathing while walking, I still started to feel out of breath after 200-300 meters. When I climbed the stairs, I was already out of breath on the second floor. It was easier when I stood or sat. But as soon as I lay down, coughing and shortness of breath began, I had to sit up in bed so that my breathing returned to normal, and then go to bed again with the hope that I would be able to fall asleep before it all happened again. I decided to look for information on the Internet. After reading medical websites, I learned about the Combivent inhaler and purchased it at the pharmacy. This is a metered aerosol spray. You can take no more than 8 doses per day. If 1 dose does not help, you can take a second one. I spent 5 days like this, the shortness of breath did not go away, but Combivent helped me relieve the attacks. On the 12th, attacks of shortness of breath became more frequent and I used the entire limit during the day. In the evening, I still took a couple more doses above the norm and went to bed.
