Lipitor chronic cough

40F - daily meds: methylphenidate, duloxetine and cyclobenzaprine, estradiol. Infrequent drinker, no smoking, mmj for chronic pain. Suspected arachnoiditis and other chronic nerve pain issues.
I had the flu about 5-6 weeks ago. Since right around that time I’ve had facial pain behind my eye and right below in my sinus. This pain is exacerbated by coughing, laughing, sneezing, standing up or bending over. I originally thought it was sinus congestion but I have no congestion. I can’t tell if this is something serious that I should be rushing to a doctor to, something important but not emergent to get some antibiotics or not a big deal at all. I am flying in about ten days so I’m nervous if it’s a pressure thing that flying will hurt it.
Any thoughts?

So we got a border collie puppy in December. He is now 7 months old. We did our research on the breed and knew that he was going to be a lot of work. We got into puppy class, made a schedule for walks and training and playtime and everything was going well. Except he’s had chronic health issues - had Giardia twice (been on medications for three weeks because of it) and now he’s got kennel cough from THREE HOURS at day care. On meds again, and trying to rest - getting a BC to rest and not tear the house down should deserve an award. He’s also going through adolescence so training has taken a taken a dive. But in all this I am EXHAUSTED - I haven’t slept well in MONTHS, I have aches and pains all over. I love this little guy. But I’m so tired of it all 😅

Posting as I am reaching the end of my wits, waiting on the next cough attack. As the tittle says I’ve been dealing with a chronic dry cough that feels like an irredeemable itch in my throat not letting me breathe normally or talk before breaking into a cough frenzy. I first noticed the cough 3 days after cleaning my bathroom with some strong chemicals that were not meant to be used together. To this day I assume some relation but nonetheless, I went to my main doctor and I was given albuterol, it did nothing. I went to the ENT and just assumed allergies, I was given a month treatment of Flonase, azelastine, Claritin, and a pack of medrol with sinus cleansing instructions. The medrol seemed to work but not too long after the treatment was done the cough came right back just as it had gone away. Went back to the same ENT and she took an xray of the sinus and looked at my throat via the scope again and said that I have post nasal drip and told me to continue with the same treatment minus the medrol. Needles to say I coughed and coughed, to the point I get these nasty cramps on my ribs and my abdomen area… sometimes all triggered at the same time. Anyways she said to see a pulmonologist, went to the pulmonologist and he also thinks it’s allergies and sends montelukast and a trial of a powdered inhaler, it did nothing… I also took an X-ray of the chest and even though there’s linear scarring of the upper right lobe and mild elevation of right hemidiaphram this man tells me you good, just keep taking the stuff. Meanwhile I get these cramps on the upper rib just below the pec that honestly I just wish someone would ended it. I went to a second ent for a second opinion and this man says you have acid reflux and that’s not letting the chemical burn heal, he sent me acid meds and I’m still with the same coughing and itch. Any suggestions? I’m thinking of going to the ER and getting a CT of the chest, the cramps are killing me. Forgot to mention at first all the cough brings up is a thick white mucus, as of most recent there’s some green in the mix, but the effort it takes to get the green out is insane.

How can I check if I have this? I only have symptoms of acid reflux like acid taste felt in the back of the mouth chronic cough, hoarseness. Post nadal drip White/yellow/green tongue I never thought I May have reflux because of lack of typical symptoms but now I'm wondering. My bb is not getting worse if I eat hard to digest food (or I think so) The main problem I have is post nasal drip and chronic bad taste in the back of my throat (bitter)

So I have a friend on my collage. Maybe calling her a friend is too much... Since my first lecture, I felt like I fell for her. There was just something avout her, she's avery boyish type of a girl, short hair, flat chest, thin physique. And she was always silent, only talking with one girl. I finally ended up in her group for the classes, I started talking to her, even though she was initally quite reluctant to talk back to me, but she opend gerself up for me quite a few times. I have a group of people that glued themselves to me, mostly because I say some funny stuff every once in a while, and because we drank a few times. We don't anymore, because I am tired of listening to their gossip and bitching. But they made it harder for me to talk to her, because they are quite loud, and she is very shy. However I talked with her few more times, and enjoyed it, however something was off. I've seen her read stuff on her phone all the time, asked about it and she told she is reading Overlord (the anime, obviously) fanfics. Googled them. Fuck. Pile of ecchi kinda stuff. Guess nothing wrong with that, but you know...
I scrolled through her facebook and realised her parents are academic teachers on another university, and ger mother is involved in scout girls. We talked about the scouts, it came out that her father is a conservative christian. I started to realise, that she, just like me, has parents that are really not aware of what their kid's doing. More to that, I had a hell of a talk with that girl before Easter, about how she feels like shit every christmas, easter and any other holiday, because her parents are fighting and wamt to get divorced. She told me she tried to kill herself 6 times, because people gossipped about her at school, as she was attending classes due to chronic illnes. When I asked about it again, she addmitted that she has tried to do it only 4 times. Huh. She told me she doesn't have any friends, and she can't get attached to anyone. That people come and go. Really felt sorry for her, she reminded me how I felt when I was 15 y.o. I wanted to hug her, and comfort her in some way, but decided not to, as we weren't really that close. I felt like shit after that conversation, kind of disillusioned, because I expected her to be more simillar to me (haha, I know, rather immature). Later she told me, she wanted to go to an art school, but she ended up in a chemical community collage, because her mom didn't want her to be involved with people from "artistic underworld". Actually her parents don't seem to pay a lot of attention to her, bacause they are busy...Whatever, she ended up being as edgy and depressed as she would if she did in fact go there. We don't have much in common. But I feel like I should be watching over her. Like I should guard her.
She's a heavy smoker, some ciggarettes, and a lot of vaping. She coughs frequently, always has a scarf or bandana on her neck. Her hands are ice cold, generally she also looks like shit, has a weird posture when walking. And problems with math, english (we're not from any country where english is a native language). She even has problems with some more basic stuff, like ortography of our native language.
I couldn't help it, and after holiday break I came closer to her, gave her a chocolate (bought some organic super dark kind of a chocolate) and told her everything is going to be fine. I think I saw a tear in her eye for a second. I hugged her. It was probably one of a very few things in my life that I did, because I really wanted to. Now she sits next to me during lectures sometimes. She pretty much never says anything, but I feel like she trusts me. Although when there is a break, she just sits next to me and scrolls through some buzzfeed kind of shit. Or reads fanfics. Talking with her is quite difficult. I know I'll ruin it in one way or another. Besides, I know that living with her would be a huge burden, for she really needs a lot of help with things. Maybe there is something wrong with me, but I can't stop feeling like I should guard her. And when she smiles, it is just such a beautiful sight. Even if she is dumb.
I know my conservative parents would be mad that I like girl who looks like that, and supports abortion pretty much for the sake of it. And who lives in a virtual world. I won't save her from herself. Most of the things I can comprehend and understand, avout life, about nature of things, she won't understand. It seems to be beyond her.
But what can I do. It makes me so sad. Like knowing that no matter what I will do, it is already failed. I'll just fuck it up in one way or another. So it goes ... as some wise wroter used to say.
And as the last , cringe driven words, Ican't really explain or even name how I feel about it. Kind of like in this song.
https://youtu.be/cDei9Tgf4Oo?si=bbyHCkcw98DLwOYh
The way how this melody in refrain sounds, sad, a bit desperate but not really dark. And refrain is said, rest of the song is angry. Yeah, anger somehoe surrounds all of other feelings about her and our parents.
If you read it, thanks, nobody was interested in listening to it.

I have a chronic lung condition which is kept under control, however, my immunity tanked at week 6 of pregnancy, which I later found out from a gynecologist is what happens in pregnancy as the body prepares to accommodate the baby.
I managed to get a urinary, vaginal and chest infection. I had not too high fevers only at night (100F, 37.8C maximum) for almost 3 weeks. At first I wasn’t taking anything, but since it was escalating I had to take one paracetamol the last 12 days at night in order to sleep. I was visiting multiple doctors, doing labs etc. and everything dragged on. They wanted to give me Bactrim which I learned was not pregnancy safe, so it took some more time to get proper treatment and I ended up in hospital getting an I.V. antibiotic, but a safe one.
My oxygen was fine the whole time, but my CRP and platelets were high (they gave me shots of blood thinner). I was exhausted, not sleeping well, and the hospital food was very bad. My lungs were beat up, I was coughing up bloody sputum at one point.
Can I hear your stories of first trimester sickness? I want to know what to expect, thanks. We are doing the NIPT soon, as well as the expert ultrasound.
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This ended up being way longer than I was expecting, so I don't expect many replies.
Here's a bullet-point summary of my trauma:
• 35 year old gay male (not out to family) • Chronically anxious since around 11 years old, and depressed since 13, majorly-so after 17 (due to a breakup and betrayal described further down) • Abusive parents (mother diagnosed with BPD & NPD, father was cruel, both controlling) • Abusive stepparents (stepmother was alcoholic, verbally abusive, manipulative, and slammed doors constantly to express her misery and anger) • Witnessed physical altercations between parents from the earliest age (separated when I was three) • Neighbor lit his house on fire and shot himself with the house engulfed in flames (I was 11 years old) – I was told my police at my front door to hide upstairs in a closet in case the man escaped his house and tried to take hostages... I heard the gunshot that took his life • Series of parasitic relationships through high school and into college • One of my first gay friends was a broken, cynical, "seen it all before," drug-abusing sociopath that would use me for money to buy drugs and tried to damage me emotionally/psychologically (he also broke into people's houses for drug money and one time put LSD in someone's drink just to watch them suffer, which induced in me a years-long OCD fixation on LSD being in cups in my cabinets at home and friends' houses) • Grew up terrified of men, driving (felt vulnerable in public) and shopping for groceries • Profoundly uncomfortable in my body, felt physically/psychologically vulnerable • Was called queer, fag, etc. by strangers, teammates on sports teams, and one time was verbally assaulted and followed by a deranged homeless man spouting homophobic epithets and threatening to shoot me dead on the spot (I ran across moving traffic to flee – this was on an urban college campus) • Effectively a virgin, and have had no libido since age 17 (at 19 went a whole year without orgasm) • First love at 17 led me on for 9 months and then cruelly cut me out of his life and told me never to talk to him again, which caused me years of anguish • Was on a series of anti-depressants for years, including one that alleviated some of my anxiety but made me hallucinate at night (whispers in my ear, objects/patterns on the ceiling, sense of falling through bed, depth perception illusions) – none helped my depression • I've been in a living situation where family is helping me to stay afloat financially, but there is always the threat that it could be taken away • Spent years living alone and isolated in an apartment, unemployed, with no social life • Live with a emotionally volatile boyfriend who sometimes yells, insults and hits me (more below)
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More detail:
I have a bachelor's degree in a field I am fully capable of working in skill-wise, but currently work in a factory, where there are constant loud sounds (hammering, compressed air, pedals being kicked, stacks of this or that slammed down, etc.), and every time I hear them, it feels like a threat or attack. I have the same issue with coughs and throat clearing, which drove me up the wall in college. I'm convinced that my coworkers secretly hate me, and I perceive their every action as exhibiting their haughty animus towards me. Thankfully we are allowed earbuds (for a while only one, which I've since been made an exception for since I told my supervisor about my PTSD), and I use noise-cancelling ones to take the edge off, but the sounds are still there and upset me and amp up my stress load.
With regards to my partner who lives with me, there is damage to various parts of my apartment, including knuckles dents in the face of my stainless steel fridge from his punching it out of rage. The police have been called twice in the past two years and I could've charged him with assault, but chose not to. He has struggled with alcoholism and a dependence on weed to manage his misery. He doesn't have to pay for anything except for food. Our relationship is stable for long periods, with explosive intervals. I have no friends left and the dating pool is bleak where I live.
I'm currently lined up to start seeing a trauma-specialized therapist in about five week's time, and next week I am seeing a PhD who is overseeing an official PTSD diagnosis.
When I see people my age who have managed to achieve the level of careematerial/financial success I aspired to reach, I feel the despair of knowing all that was wasted and stolen from me due to my mental health. The gulf between me and people who I deem people who would be my peers if only I hadn't been so screwed up. I try so hard to appear normal, to appear put-together and affable, but underneath is an ocean of time where I knew nothing but pain, self-loathing, fear and loneliness, and it overwhelms me with despair, not least of all because I know those experiences are alien to others.
I'm just curious what others think about my experiences and history. To me, all of this is normal, and as such I see my struggling as a sign of weakness and defectiveness. I shut down around other people frequently, or at least have a small amount of energy for interaction. I oscillate between a simmering misanthropy and self-loathing, daily. People tell me how smart and talented I am, but I don't believe them. I try to work towards my career goals, but am often eaten away by either a paralyzing anxiety or a crushing depressive sense of doom and futility, a compacted sadness and despair that I cannot adequately articulate.

Ever since I can remember I’ve had a constant cough, it’s dry and annoying - makes me sound like an old man that has smoked 100 a day his whole life.
I’m at the end of my tether, tried lots on inhalers (albuterol, brown steroid one, symbicort) to no avail.
I also suffer with chronic allergies (dust mites, pollen, cats, duck feathers, hayfever). My eyes always itch and without sodium cromiglicate + fexofenadine I would be suffering with itchy eyes all the time.
I have an allergist + ENT appointment booked in but it could be a year off and they are only the first initial ones.

• Does anyone have any advice on what I could do to treat this?
• What should I say or ask for at the appointments - it’s a long waiting list so wouldn’t want to be fobbed off and have to wait again if not treated?

I just want to try everything and make sure all avenues have been looked into, as it’s so annoying and unattractive coughing all the time.
TLDR: What are all the options to treat a chronic cough of 10+yrs?

Hi there. This isn't my usual way of asking medical questions, but I feel like I have more questions than my doctor has time to answer, and now it's the weekend and she's not available, so Reddit it is!
I'll try to be as succinct as possible.
Background: - 32F, generally self identify as chronically ill, living with obesity but have been undergoing lifestyle changes and weight loss over the last year. Autistic.

• Chronic conditions include GERD, mostly controlled by Pantoprazole. Secondary to this is iron deficiency (but normal hemoglobin). Ferritin floats around 7-10 currently. Pending infusions as supplements are not tolerated due to frequent GI distress (diagnosed as IBS but often debilitating). Of note, anxiety is also chronic for me but relatively well controlled until I became sick this time around.
  
• Suspected conditions that are actively being investigated currently: PCOS, POTS, Asthma.
  

Environmental Background: Partner fell ill April 12th with unknown URI, NAAT confirmed not Covid. Has recovered almost fully without complication, just lingering cough and some snot.
The issue:

• I went to urgent care on Monday 22nd with an sp02 of 90-92%, shortness of breath, chest pain, congestion, cough. Intermittent fever. NAAT x2 confirmed not Covid.
  
• Given Atrovent and Ventolin, O2 only climbs to 93% when I take my N95 off. In office for about 45 minutes. I swear the Ventolin makes it harder to breathe, doctor says "not possible."
  
• Doctor decides I can be treated as out patient instead of admitted, prescribes Doxycycline 100mg for 7 days and 25mg of Prednisone for 4 days. Says to continue with inhalers as needed, orders chest x-ray.
  
• Chest x-ray confirms "small pneumonia in upper left lung" on Tuesday. Doctor says continue antibiotics and prednisone and I should start feeling better soon. Unknown personally if bacterial or viral pneumonia, there were no further tests completed. Given the fact I was borderline delirious and don't remember much of Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday, I suspect bacterial?
  
• Notice small improvements come Thursday morning and have very slowly seen improvement since, but condition trajectory is not linear and the downturns are causing concern.
  

My questions:

• I did not want to taken prednisone but it seemed like the only option. I took my last dose yesterday morning. It has caused sleeplessness, and I have noticed over the last few days of healing, that as the dosage time approaches, there is a downturn in symptoms. Around 7am everyday so far my breathing becomes laboured again, wheezing VERY loud again, and notably, O2 drops again. As of right now (430am), I feel okay breathing and the wheeze is almost non existent. I guess my question is even though the course was short and the dose small, can I anticipate a sudden rebound in breathing issues at the sudden discontinuation? Are there other things I can anticipate from sudden prednisone discontinuation in general?
  
• I genuinely believe the inhalers have not helped and Google has mixed answers. Ventolin has made my wheeze exponentially worse every single time I've used it since she gave it to me, caused heart palpitations, and chest tightness. Atrovent seemed to help a bit with the wheezing but it made it very hard for me to actually get the mucus out of my chest. Is this normal?
  
• Given that the inhalers don't seem to help and I am suddenly no longer on an anti-inflammatory, are there other ways I may be able to manage any rebound symptoms? What ones do I look out for? How do I know if I need to seek further care or if I am healing as anticipated?
  

Other queries:
The way this illness presented alone has been very odd. It started with a wheeze only on the 15th and no other symptoms. Felt "fine" for several days - even went for a workout on the 17th with only minor noticeable exhaustion which I brushed off as low iron, as I recently just had my period for 43 days. It very very suddenly shifted to extreme illness on the 19th (hence urgent care trip (I was told I should have probably just gone directly to hospital)), with the usual cold symptoms following. Everything I've read insinuates that pneumonia is often secondary to primary illness, so I'm feeling confused at the atypical presentation (or at least, atypical to me). I've never had it before and am not a doctor so maybe I'm not an outlier, but it feels odd, especially given my partner did not present with pneumonia (that we know of). And, if by chance his lingering symptoms are healing pneumonia, would their mildness not insinuate viral pneumonia? Seeing as mine has been responding quite well to antibiotics but went from 0-100 very fast, would that mean mine is bacterial and his is not? Or that whatever cold he gave me (which again was initially asymptomatic and turned into pneumonia and THEN congestion/snot city) just happened to turn into bacterial pneumonia for me? And if so, how? Why? Does it just happen this way sometimes? Luck? I have had no interaction with anyone other than him for three weeks (not working, currently). The epedimeology of it confuses me so much.
That's all my questions for now, I think. I know this is a lot and do want to extend deep appreciation if this has been read and for any responses given in kind.

I've been going to doctors on and off for a few years but of course, no one knows what's wrong with me. I've been having chronic cough since an infection in 2021. Now everyday is miserable. I feel like I can't take a full breath, I'm coughing near constantly, my throat is dry all the time. But they say I don't have asthma, reflux or allergies. One even suggested it's just stress and I started crying in his office. It's so exhausting. i don't even know what to do, google doesn't help. "But your tests came back fine" oh my god... I'm loosing my mind and I don't have the energy to keep going with this shit.

So for those who don't know what fujoshi means, it essentially ( nowadays rather losely ) refers to women ( or - sigh, in this term I suppose people with 'feminine genders', cough cough ) with a weird obsession over yaoi, which refers to a genre of 'Boys Love' typically made in an manga(japanese) or sometimes, manhua(chinese) and manhwa(korean) artstyle as well. (Essentially along the lines of the East Asian 'anime' artstyle.), and often times is super-duper really fucking sexual, often geared towards a (often times hetero) woman's gaze, made by predominantly women.
Anyways back to the main topic. What I've noticed is that a lot of FTM or 'trans masc' tucutes have this weird obsession over yaoi, BL, whatever, and quite frankly, it freaks me the fuck out because it feels like more than half of these supposed trans mascs aren't even really trans or trying to at least act like they are.
The most common reasons I've been told as to why both tucute trans mascs and cis women like yaoi is because both of the men in the relationship can be seen as equal. ( Let's just ignore the amount of comics that include incest, rpe, pdophilia, insane power imbalances, and the big tall buff man x tiny short petite uwu gay boy stereotype that yaoi has some really awful tendencies to play on. ) Another common reason is that these people often times will also try to insert themselves into these seemingly more "equal" relationships as well.
If you ask a tucute trans masc who uses this as a reason to transition into a supposed gay man, what do you think their answers would be if you were to ask them if they would still transition if both men and women in a relationship were equal? That women aren't lesser than men, and if they would still yearn to have a male body in such cases ( if they ever did beforehand. )?
I feel like in most cases it really can just be boiled down to internalized misogyny and using gay men as the scape goat, often times for a woman's feelings of being unable to amount to the man she likes. Another counter-argument I've seen is that "Straight men sexualize lesbians all the time, it's only fair!" But lesbians want nothing to do with men the same way gay men want nothing to do with women? Why do gay men have to take the brunt for what straight men are doing? Two wrongs does not make a right.
In the end, I must disclaim now I'm fine with LGBT+ NSFW content. I don't give a rats' ass about purity culture, people can be freaky, I'm chill with that. But I think it's still pretty fucking creepy that straight women and tucutes can get away with boasting about how they jerk off to gay men openly the same way straight men do about lesbians ( which I have unfortunately witnessed in real life on multiple occasions. ), not to mention occasionally treating cis gay men like literal pets/accessories as their friendship trophies. It makes you wonder how they feel if you ever brought up lesbians to the conversation - whether they'd treat them the same way or not.
All in all - I hate fujos, cis or tucute. They perpetrate misogyny, sexism and take 0 accountability for being fetishizing creeps either. "But what if gay relationships ARE like that!?" Why would you jerk off to or willingly support gay relationships that are chronically dangerous, rape-y, incestual, and other lines of unhealthy stuff in general - AND also proclaim it loud and proud in PUBLIC? Even if a gay man were to write the same freaky shit I've seen AFAB authors do I would still condemn that shit. 🙏🏼 I'm okay with cis women or trans men ( that ACTUALLY have gender dysphoria and have always wanted to be men ) writing depictions of gay men in media - but cis women, respectfully, stay the fuck out of pulling all that freaky shit front and centre 🙏🏼🙏🏼 actual trans men, you guys r chill
Edit : Forgot to put this here but there's one more point I want to elaborate on. A lot of the time fujoshi tucutes seem to only really want to become cis men when it comes to freaky time or anything romance related. Often times when you ask them about life outside of that you'd see it's either them drawing back to their fantasies of how male friendships would be like ( in BL fiction ) or that they sometimes still wish they could be "among the girls" as friends. Outside of that freaky time life if you were to break in to them the realities of living a regular man's life, they may appear to be more deterred from it. Food for thought - if you're only trans when it comes to freaky time or romance, you might need to reconsider.

I started taking metformin for PCOS towards the end of February, increasing the dose by 500mg weekly until 1500mg. I was told to expect gastric side effects and to begin with they were manageable, bit of nausea, low appetite and loose stools in the morning.
About 5 weeks in, things went horribly wrong. I started getting what I can only describe as attacks a few hours after eating. Severe pain gnawing all over my abdomen, nausea, EXTREME diarrhea. I'd be bent over in bed or in the bathroom for several hours. I let it go on for a few days as I thought it was metformin side effects only. I was eating very little because of the symptoms, scared to set it off, but eventually I would have to eat a little bit, then it would happen.
Eventually spoke to my Dr who told me to stop the metformin for 7 days. The diarrhea stopped a day or two after stopping metformin, but I was still getting the pain attacks.
7 days go by, I'm barely eating, but still suffering the same. Not getting better. I don't restart the metformin, but still assuming it's the side effects from it being in my system.
It happens to be my partner's bday weekend, where we've got family coming and plans involving food for DAYS. Miraculously, my symptoms seem to ease and I manage to get through a meal out without two much trouble - my first proper meal in like 10 days. But then the next night there's another meal, it's too much and kicks things off again.
Speak to the Dr again 11 days after stopping metformin, why is this still happening to me? She says it sounds like my stomach lining is inflamed and prescribes 40mg omeprazole twice a day.
That was 12 days ago. The omeprazole helped immediately, I haven't been getting the pain attacks. I have a more localised general sore feeling in the upper left, right where my stomach actually is, and some indigestion when eating. Sometimes bloating and cramps. I gave been eating v.bland food, mostly eggs, chicken, broccoli, spinach. At least I have been able to work again and function.
But I've been spending a lot of time reading this reddit, and I'm a bit scared. I know gastritis can be caused by NSAIDS and undoubtedly metformin set this all off, but I don't know if I already had issues I wasn't really aware of, or if it really is just an acute flare caused by meds. About 18 months ago, I did have a bout of acid reflux that was giving me chest pain, and last year I had a cough that lingered for weeks, and I started to wonder if it was acid reflux rather than a virus. I don't often get coughs, didn't even get one with covid. Both these things settled down though. I also know that sometimes I would notice my upper left abdomen was tender to the touch. I think I went to my GP about it years ago, but they just prodded me a bit and did nothing.
Sorry for such a long post, I just wondered if anyone else had gastritis set off by metformin, and how long it took to heal? Does the fact that this has already been ongoing for a month mean it isn't acute?
And how what do you count as signs of healing whilst on omeprazole? Is a lot burping after eating, a sign that things are still bad?
Summary: diagnosed with inflamed stomach lining after taking metformin, was it caused by the drug alone or could I have a chronic issue I don't know about? Has anyone else experienced this?

I have a really awful chronic cough and my appointment with the specialist isn’t until early June and it’s really stressful having to deal with this alone. I’m coughing so loudly and dry heaving so much 😓 I really need a chat idk what to do I’m panicking so badly

Female, 24, 2 kids, 8 month postpartum, chronic pancreatitis with acute flare ups since i was a toddler (caused by CF, typically no lung involvement) taking lexapro and creon enzymes.
i’m having the weirdest symptoms and no clue what is causing them.
1 month ago- bruises appearing on legs
2 weeks ago- small patches of what looks like rash? appearing on legs, arms, and hips
3 days ago- mucousy cough, no congestion. headache
the symptoms just keep piling on and nothing is getting better. it’s making me exhausted, i’ve been taking 2 naps a day for a month now. i’m finally able to get in with my primary on the 3rd, but could urgent care help out too? any ideas?

So far I been consulted with 6 doctors (2 general+ 2 pulmonologist+ 2 gastroenterologist). I been initially diagnosed with GERD because of 2 months of chronic dry cough with some times throat pain. I do vomit due to excessive coughing. I had coughing while sleeping. I had choking episodes while coughing too.
Pulmonologist said I have no problem with lungs.
After endoscopy, the gastroenterologist told that I had small intestine infection. Because of that only I have reflux. Consumed antibiotics for 2 weeks. But still cough persist. I would say it is reduced in no. Of times coughing.
After 2 weeks of antibiotics I visited the doctor. He said it is normal for everyone don't be stressed about this everything will go normal. He prescribed Domperidone 30mg+ Esomeprazole 40mg for 2 weeks only at night. But it seems not working for me. Already took one week coughing is getting back to how it was.
Still I am coughing, it is more or like LPR I think?
The endoscopy result is I have pangastritis, bulbar deodenitis.
OG junction 38cm
Should I visit another doctor? Please help guys!

Curious if anyone has insights or knowledge on whether symptoms can show up years prior to any detectable tumor or cancerous growth?
For 2+ years, my father has been experiencing chronic cough, weight loss, and chest pains. Doctors have never suspected lung cancer, much less considered screening. Symptoms persisted no matter what interventions we tried.
About a month ago, he was diagnosed with stage 4 adenocarcinoma only after an ER visit due to severe chest pains. Oncologist says such cancer grows fast, probably began 6-8 months ago.
Could the chronic cough, weight loss, and chest pains, taken together, have been precursors or early warning signs of possible lung cancer? He's been a smoker for ~30 yrs but quit 20 yrs ago so he doesn't fit into the automatic lung cancer screening criteria.

Hi I (24M, 5'10, 203lbs) I was recently diagnosed with bi-inguinal hernias, I had the surgery and it was practically one of the worst experiences in my life. I had issues with the foley catheter they sent me home with and it practically led me to be bedridden for the rest of the week until they took it out. I remember having serious leg pains for the remainder of the week, but then it stopped. For the next week, I was pretty much bedridden the day I did try to walk I was really having a hard time breathing (I attributed it to me having an asthma attack because my surgeon said that it was unrelated to my surgery) I ended up going to the ER after coughing up blood and learned that I had developed community acquired pneumonia in both of my lungs and a pulmonary embolism without acute cor pulmonale (I'm assuming that I contracted CAP on an 11 hour drive back home). Which ended up with me being on Eliquis for 6 months.
To me this was a very traumatizing chain of events, and has caused me to be hyper-aware with any symptom my body has (i.e, I woke up this morning and noticed my side has been hurting every time i reach). All the other wounds from the surgery had healed, but i can't shake the feeling of being sick (I don't know if it is because my sister died of breast cancer at 21 or the recent diagnosis of stomach cancer with my grandma). I am genuinely scared; I went to the doctor; they are doing blood work but I don't know what to look out for because I was feeling entirely fine before my surgery. Now I have this chronic cough , random deep breaths, and sometimes with deep breaths, hiccups, etc tend to hurt my right lung. My mind is racing - I try not to think about it. I try to not tell anyone because I don't want to be seen as overdramatic or cause worry to my family and friends. My doctor says he really wants to investigate it because "there aren't many 24 year old men running around with pulmonary embolisms" It is safe to say around my surgery my diet became poor and I wasn't drinking much water but I also don't want to seem like I'm fishing for a reason. I know when I came up from the anesthesia i had emergent agitation, and since then my left leg, mainly my knee, has been killing me (even now) so I dont know if i had fell or what...
Any tips on adjusting to this? Words of encouragement because I don't know anyone else who had this issue as well.. Also what to look out for? Things that I can do now so it cant expedite the healing process and precent recurrence?

I asked on a different account but genuinely I was wondering what to do for chronic diarrhea. I will usually go a few times a day when I do have it, if I don’t diarrhea it’s usually solid but skinnier u know. Also the diarrhea I usually have gotten is lots more explosive and or more triggered by coughs and sneezing or farting. I am sorry for the specifics I thought maybe someone is going though what I’m going through

So far I been consulted with 6 doctors (2 general+ 2 pulmonologist+ 2 gastroenterologist). I been initially diagnosed with GERD because of 2 months of chronic dry cough with some times throat pain. I do vomit due to excessive coughing. I had coughing while sleeping. I had choking episodes while coughing too.
Pulmonologist said I have no problem with lungs.
After endoscopy, the gastroenterologist told that I had small intestine infection. Because of that only I have reflux. Consumed antibiotics for 2 weeks. But still cough persist. I would say it is reduced in no. Of times coughing.
After 2 weeks of antibiotics I visited the doctor. He said it is normal for everyone don't be stressed about this everything will go normal. He prescribed Domperidone 30mg+ Esomeprazole 40mg for 2 weeks only at night. But it seems not working for me. Already took one week coughing is getting back to how it was.
Still I am coughing, it is more or like LPR I think?
The endoscopy result is I have pangastritis, bulbar deodenitis.
OG junction 38cm
Should I visit another doctor? Please help guys!

Hi all,
Went to Capitol Breathe Free for a chronic cough and runny nose and had a strange experience I thought to warn others about. I signed up for an appointment with their MD after seeing rave reviews on ZocDoc and every other site. It was only upon arrival that I found out I would be seen by a PA instead. Everyone was nice enough, but strangely enough the PA gave me a CT scan then and there on my first appointment.
Immediately after my CT (reminder this is still my first appointment), they told me that I would need three surgeries. Staff came in right away to schedule my surgery. I said I would need to get a second opinion before going through with surgery, but they pushed me to "just get a time on the schedule." Eventually I caved and scheduled it.
Later that week, I called in to cancel the surgery since I didn't want it in the first place. The staff on the phone questioned why wanted to cancel and were once again a little pushy before finally taking it off the schedule.
Finally got some second opinions from my primary care doc and the sinusitis subreddit and everyone has told me that these surgeries are not at all appropriate.
When I looked on the Capitol Breathe Free's Glassdoor they had multiple clinicians complain that they were forced to "sell" procedures at the clinic.
Glassdoor:
https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Capitol-Breathe-Free-Sinus-and-Allergy-Centers-Reviews-E5586935.htm
Conclusion:
Just putting this out there to warn others about this clinic. I don't know for sure what is going on but thought to put it out there in case everyone has had this experience. (How does an ENT clinic have 1100 perfect rave reviews on google maps by the way??? not even most restaurants have that many reviews).
TLDR: Had pushy experience at Capitol Breathe Free and Glassdoor postings have given me reason to believe that they are pushing unnecessary procedures.

Hello,
TLDR: ENT wants to do 3 surgeries to solve "structural problems" but my sinuses are completely empty of fluid and I just have postnasal drip. I am desperate to find something that works, and have tried so much. But also I am skeptical. Some employees complained that they were forced to sell unnecessary procedures at this clinic:
https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Capitol-Breathe-Free-Sinus-and-Allergy-Centers-Reviews-E5586935.htm
Background:
I have been dealing with sinus symptoms for 7 months now. It started with an extremely severe cold that happened suddenly (bed ridden for a week). This went away with Augmentin but came back about a month later with the same severity (bed ridden for a week). After the second bout, I received antibiotics a step up from augmentin and it went away for the most part.
Since then, I have had:
-wet cough, swollen turbinates, fluid in ears sometimes, and snoring.
-Ruled out allergies by moving several times and taking multiple allergy meds.
ENT and Proposed Surgery:
I went to an ENT office and was sent to a PA rather than the physician. The PA gave me a 10 day round of antibiotics, which caused the symptoms to completely disappear for a few days after being steadily present for months. She also did a CT, Sinus Scope, and bacterial throat culture. My sinuses in the CT were almost completely clear and my sinus scope didn't indicate any polyps etc, just swollen turbinates. I also have never had sinus pain or feelings of full sinuses. Throat culture was clear. The PA said I need to get a balloon sinusplasty, eustachian dilation, and turbinate reduction and because I have a "structural problem" causing my symptoms. She refused to prescribe any more antibiotics because my throat culture was negative, and said I need to fix a "structural problem"
Question/Discussion:
I am skeptical of the need to get all these surgeries when my sinuses are properly draining as indicated by the CT and lack of full feeling. Glassdoor reviews are also making me worried.

• Can these surgeries stop the postnasal drip?
• If this is a chronic bacterial infection as indicated by the augmentin improving symptoms, how are my multiple throat cultures coming back clear?

This has been an awful experience and I just want to feel normal again. I would appreciate any advice or experience with these surgeries and how I can go forward. Thank you so much!!!