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<blockquote data-quote="TwinkleToesKirsty" data-source="post: 576728" data-attributes="member: 53597"><p>I'm on immunosuppressants so I pick up just about every virus going around! They nearly always hang around for a long time with me, and eventually go to my chest, and I end up with a chest infection.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Colds are a bit of a nightmare experience with me, as I always begin with having high sugars because of the cold. I then have to increase my steroids, which causes high sugars. It nearly always then goes to my chest, anddddd more high sugars! </p><p></p><p>Unfortunately I'm not allowed to take most over the counter medications because I'm on more medications than the average OAP and taking them would most likely cause some form of spontaneous combustion! I really have too put up with it, but I do take something called carbocystine which thins the mucus, morphine for pain, steroids for chest problems and prophylactic antibiotics, so I can increase all of those if need be....</p><p></p><p>I can't really prevent colds as my drug cocktail makes me a germ magnet, but I do my best to prevent it going to my chest by taking extra antibiotics as soon as I feel rough!</p><p></p><p></p><p>Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TwinkleToesKirsty, post: 576728, member: 53597"] I'm on immunosuppressants so I pick up just about every virus going around! They nearly always hang around for a long time with me, and eventually go to my chest, and I end up with a chest infection. Colds are a bit of a nightmare experience with me, as I always begin with having high sugars because of the cold. I then have to increase my steroids, which causes high sugars. It nearly always then goes to my chest, anddddd more high sugars! Unfortunately I'm not allowed to take most over the counter medications because I'm on more medications than the average OAP and taking them would most likely cause some form of spontaneous combustion! I really have too put up with it, but I do take something called carbocystine which thins the mucus, morphine for pain, steroids for chest problems and prophylactic antibiotics, so I can increase all of those if need be.... I can't really prevent colds as my drug cocktail makes me a germ magnet, but I do my best to prevent it going to my chest by taking extra antibiotics as soon as I feel rough! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk [/QUOTE]
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