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28 July 2009 5 Comments
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New Prescription To Stop Cough

Started Monday night: July 27, 2009 on table and capsule: 10st DEXAMETHASON 4 MG TABLET
OMEPRAZOL 20 MG
ONE EACH A DAY

NEW DOSE:
STARTED MILD COUGHING SPELL AT 8 AM.
TOOK ONE OMEPRAZOL AND ONE DEXAMETHASON

I went to bed without a cough. This never happened before in all these month. I woke this morning early with no cough. No trouble sleeping. Bed at 1 AM and up at just before 8 AM.

What I did go through last night after the pill and all night is enough sweat to make the bed sheets wet, and I can imagine how the mattress is. They say dust mites love the moist atmosphere to breed in.

The other big difference is that two days ago before the pill I weighed 79.6 kilos. This morning I weigh 76 kilos. No the scales are not broken. It’s a new electronic scale from China, not the expensive kind but it has been working consistently these last few months.

I felt slightly unbalanced walking around but not nauseous. Okay with that.

It’s a great relief not to be coughing and spitting out phlegm all the time. The doctor and the pharmacist really found an effective medication.

But here’s the scary part. This has side effects and is given to dying people. Again that classification, I have to accept it while I continue to live a willed and creative day.

Now I am certainly in the doctor’s hands.

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  • Strephon (author) said:

    New symptoms don’t feel good, so recontact tomorrow my local doctor, and take myself off medication and back I go to the specialist.

    I was not sure why I had the specialist, since lately she still indicates she wants to operate. I still did not understand the Netherlands health care system: you have to go through a local doctor assigned to you to get to the knowledge expert who knows your illness best and how to treat it.

    But the local house doctor can prescribe any medication without consulting the specialist, and the specialist must always consult the house doctor as to what she is doing with the patient.

    The patient in the meanwhile has little say because he does not know the system until he figures it out. And how many people can figure this out? They need both high intelligence to deal with doctors who are supposedly high intelligence and highly experienced. But intelligent people can be powerful manipulators, so patients have to have a good intelligence to keep figuring out the who and what they are dealing with, don’t they?

    Now I have another challenge on my hands and hope I will be up for it.

    When they do chemo therapy, which is what I found out on the internet this new medication is called, this alters several things in my body and time line I am finding out.

    The thing is is to stay as long as possible in as healthy a condition on my timeline.

    What an ode to life!

    # 29 July 2009 at 12:20 AM
  • Strephon (author) said:

    NEW SYMPTOMS WITH NEW MEDICATION

    No coughing bouts like before-must be less phlegm produced?

    Still some phlegm and seems natural to cough this up

    Big sweats sleeping-soaks bed

    A little wooziness but no nausea

    A little chest feeling not normally there, not quite pain but maybe clamped feeling as if new activity with the tumor

    Still good mind but some laps between words or a different word typed-short term memory instant lost of what just went before, maybe no more than natural

    Not depressed but need will power sometimes to be directed in the next activity

    Handling the stress of moving: have first place for a nice place to live but the rental agency did not get the apt key ahead of time so made a week’s delay before we can sign the contract.

    # 29 July 2009 at 12:30 AM
  • Strephon (author) said:

    First day without new medication. Got callback appointment with specialist Dr van Heyden to check medication and such, who is in charge, local doctor or specialist doctor, want back on codiene, don’t like symptoms of new medication, especially the big sweats, and don’t like not checking with the expert about the medication. Good thing had a big dream last night in which the Mammoth, 12,000 years ago came charging up but went by me with no intention of killing me. The Death Force is certainly big. I have to accept it but I have time. Stay in the moment with medications and things, making your decisions, Strephon.

    Trust the process rather than fight the inevitable. You are rather primitive against the forces out there and part of your destiny. Is this the message?

    # 29 July 2009 at 8:21 AM
  • Strephon (author) said:

    STREPHON DOESN’T LIKE NEW MEDICATION – EVOKES ISSUES

    First day without new medication. Got callback appointment with specialist Dr van Heyden to check medication and such, who is in charge, local doctor or specialist doctor, want back on codiene, don’t like symptoms of new medication, especially the big sweats, and don’t like not checking with the expert about the medication.

    Good thing: I had a big dream last night in which a brown, hairy Mammoth, 12,000 years ago came charging up but went by me dressed in my skins. He had no intention of killing me. The Death Force is certainly big. I have to accept it but I have time. Stay in the moment with medications and things, making your decisions, Strephon. Write as you can. small things like this, and when well enough, the big project, the Jesus Novel. Will I finish it on time?

    Trust the process rather than fight the inevitable. You are rather primitive against the forces out there and part of your destiny. Is this the message?

    # 29 July 2009 at 8:26 AM
  • Strephon (author) said:

    Now taking again a new reduced dose of 1.5 mg DEX which seems to give me the cough protection but not big night sweats. Too soon to know since this is the second pill taken of the reduced dose. But here I am up at 3:30 AM having only slept a little from midnight on and then up again at 2 AM, I think. But I feel living energy!

    # 5 August 2009 at 2:36 AM

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