Sandy's question(s) seem to have become mired in the "Brovana" posts, so let's start a new topic.
If might be helpful to discuss your mouth breathing with the RT at your rehab facility. Understanding your limitations are part of his/her job. Perhaps they have masks available for patients. However, I think the biggest problem is WHY your nasal passages stayed clogged.
I am trying to think if my surgery for diverticulosis was 2005 0r 2008 but anyhow with out going and looking its been at least 11 years. you probably took Levaquin back then when you had your surgery , I do not have a treadmill, 2016 was when I had the aneurysm surgery. Well I won't go into my diverticulosis surgery with the exception that it was very serious and also included female anatamony . Do not guess will do anything about the hernia's unless told to, we are quite a lot older than you . I hope and pray all goes well for you . I plan on sending you an E-mail maybe tomorrow.
Yes Sandy, I had a colon resectioning, but the surgeon found there was still blockage and had to operate an additional four hours scraping the small intestines.
Working out with dumbbells was a part of my routine but I no longer do that, I just do as much treadmill as I can, usually two to three minutes at a time.
Keep in mind that this is all recent - my surgery was twelve years ago.
When I was admitted the beginning of June, my doc had me on Levaquin and iv steroids which were changed to oral 60mg after the first day. When I was discharged, he changed it to 40mg for 30 days which I stopped on my own after about 20 days and started taking 10mg which is where I am now.
Humidity and I are not friends; I live with a dehumidifier going most of the day but it generates a lot of heat and I have to constantly shut it off until the humidity gets above 43% then I have to turn it back on - like my old Scottish Grandmother used to say - "No rest for the weary."
I have just been having a rough time with heat and humidity the last several days, I did go to rehab and got inside the lobby but when it came time to go down the hall a considerable way, I ask that I go in a wheelchair, a first using one of those since last fall I think (will add to this later)I had a dose of albuterol in the nebulizer
earlier that helped some .its wearing off, almost time for another. The girl at rehab did not think much of the guy having me use pulse last Thursday. What I want to know is just what does Ipratropium do , for along time the doctor had me taking it every 6 hours both of them albuterol and it if I was awake. I have a whole box on hand and I just wondered.
I would certainly not even try to use pulse during exercise. There is no reason to tax your breathing when ample oxygen is available. Since you are having so much trouble with nasal mucus, you might consider testing for sinus fungus. Sinus fungus is frequently overlooked/misdiagnosed. It takes quite some time to clear fungus,especially when it has been growing for an extended period.
Sister Petra I think it is the sinus that I have had for a long time that causes my nose problems, if I take something to dry up the postnasal drip , then I have stuffy nose, if I don't then I take a chance on getting mucus and some going into my lungs which I have avoided for close to a year now. The mucous I would get was so thick in my throat most would not cough out , but had to be literally pulled out with a kleenex getting a hold of the stuff. Yuk, Most always it was clear, sometimes lightly yellow. The rehab people , I like the girl the best she is more understanding , the guy when I mentioned a mask , he said oh no that's not a good idea.
In the first place I had no intention of using a mask for all times, they cannula is just fine, what I was wanting to try was when I had got so hot and trying to do pulse was use a mask on my way to doctors or the rehab so that I would not panic.Because whether the male rehab guy gets it or not, I still do not do pulse good and I much of the time forget to breathe through my nose if its clear. He always tells me do your good breathing and walk slow (like a turtle-my words) other wise hes okay on the rest of my exercises when he tells me to do the good breathing.
I seem to be doing okay on the new breathing stuff and the capsule I am taking. But It will be a couple of weeks before I order all I had was samples.