Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | I'm curious if you've had any swallow studies. Sounds a lot like aspiration pneumonia. I get a lot of fluid in my left lung that started around year 7. I battle thrush that aspirates into the lung even and it gets into my sinuses like almost everything I drink. Breaking ribs from coughing isn't uncommon. I cough till I vomit and cough up an alarming amount of blood several days a week. I used to worry but quit that 2 or 3 years ago because it just got overwhelming.
I hope it resolves soon. For me, the toughest part of all of this is the difficulty breathing. I hate to hear of anyone going through that.
SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0 Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation Diagnosis 07/21/03 tx completed 10/08/03 Post Radiation Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome 3/08. Cervical Spinal Stenosis 01/11 Cervical Myelitis 09/12 Thoracic Paraplegia 10/12 Dysautonomia 11/12 Hospice care 09/12-01/13. COPD 01/14 Intermittent CHF 6/15 Feeding tube NPO 03/16 VFI 12/2016 ORN 12/2017 Cardiac Event 06/2018 Bilateral VFI 01/2021 Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022 Bilateral VFI 05/2022 Total Laryngectomy 01/2023
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