Health worries
Apr. 30th, 2014 11:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobelI hate having very good reasons to be justifiably overprotective about health stuff, because I can't tell the difference between reasonable precautions and overdoing the paranoia.
For people with FOP, lung complications can be fatal -- it's one of the two biggest causes of death (the other being falls). Because the rib cage ends up fused, we don't have the leverage to cough stuff up, and so it goes bad. And so I get worried whenever I have gunk in lungs, and invariably end up going to the doctor when I have a cold, going "I've been coughing for weeks and I know it's probably normal but plz to confirm".
I don't have gunk in lungs, at least yet. I /do/ have an annoying persistent cough. It started as an occasional thing that I thought was just mild irritation from the post nasal drip from the sinus stuff, but it's gotten worse. It's not a productive cough, very dry, and there's no soreness, just a tickle. And there's a possibility that it's still just irritation, and so will get better once my sinuses clear more.
...there's also the possibility that the infection from my sinuses is crawling down my throat, and the irritation is from the infection itself. And if /that's/ true, there's nothing to stop it from crawling further down into my lungs.
If the latter, I should go to the doctor to see if he can do anything about it. If the former, I just need to wait it out. But waiting it out might let it get worse. And ... just /argh/.
For people with FOP, lung complications can be fatal -- it's one of the two biggest causes of death (the other being falls). Because the rib cage ends up fused, we don't have the leverage to cough stuff up, and so it goes bad. And so I get worried whenever I have gunk in lungs, and invariably end up going to the doctor when I have a cold, going "I've been coughing for weeks and I know it's probably normal but plz to confirm".
I don't have gunk in lungs, at least yet. I /do/ have an annoying persistent cough. It started as an occasional thing that I thought was just mild irritation from the post nasal drip from the sinus stuff, but it's gotten worse. It's not a productive cough, very dry, and there's no soreness, just a tickle. And there's a possibility that it's still just irritation, and so will get better once my sinuses clear more.
...there's also the possibility that the infection from my sinuses is crawling down my throat, and the irritation is from the infection itself. And if /that's/ true, there's nothing to stop it from crawling further down into my lungs.
If the latter, I should go to the doctor to see if he can do anything about it. If the former, I just need to wait it out. But waiting it out might let it get worse. And ... just /argh/.