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I fully get terror over sinus rinsing, I was 40 when it was suggested for me. That would be 1990 and sinus rinsing was back in style. My doctor ordered a Water Pik attachment that has a soft rubber cone on the end, specific for sinus rinsing. The Water Pik was filled with warm saline solution...

I can't wait!!! Congratulations on a publication. Years ago I purchased "In the Shadow of Polio", a personal and educational story woven around my generation and the times. Not a book to read during a long flight. The often brutal well written book kept me so engaged I had weeped and sobbed away...

LittleLab4CF@comcast.net . My OI friend had "Asthma" when she was young. Genetic testing for CF wasn't common then and only when her OI problems stabilized did evidence of CF surface. LL

Sadly many attemps by authorities insulted people's intelligence with anti drug messages concerning marijuana. To that end most people threw the baby out with the bath water by ignoring both the dirty lies and the genuine issues alike. Most propaganda on marijuana is exactly that. Burning any...

Maybe the best thing you can do is to help normalize your daughter's frantic world. I think of the good things that came from my late CF diagnosis and parents not freaked out over me was one of the best. Early diagnosis of a disease that has no cure is sort of cruel and the damage done by...

That was a pretty good throw. I won't go so far as to say vaporizing marijuana will NEVER result in cancer. It has been established that carcinogens exist in marijuana smoke. Vapor condensed and concentrated was placed on 21 lab rats of juvenile age for 444 days using various methods of skin...

DmT145, Thank you, I think? Grammar sometimes is confusing for me. If I get it I avoided a knee jerk reaction. And I did make some effort into my research. If so, that certainly was my intent. Marijuana will lose its legal punishments fairly soon and it is and has been used as a medicine for...

Got your gall bladder still? That puppy acting up can turn a room blue. Have you considered ox bile, it sweetens those roses. LL

Yep it is almost considered a CF charactaristic. Bummer. My primary teeth rotted away before my secondary teeth were ready to push most of them out. I swear my adult teeth came in with cavities. Brush my teeth? I even tried a brass brush for a little while. My poor mouth and teeth have been...

Burnanator420 For the uninitiated, “420” is hippy happy hour or 4:20pm. I scanned over the link you placed in your post and will read it all thoroughly. For you, I suggest changing your handle because twenty years from now, when you are trying to get that killer job, you were once known by such...

Allisabovelove, Not to put too fine a point on your discovery, but fructose, found in abundance in Gatorade is the principal ingredient in anti-emetics. To be certain, I can correspond a quality and ease of a bowel movement to having had my dose of "Gatorade" daily. This is important enough to...

Allisabovelove, I apologize for not getting you the poop on pooping just yet. But as for your electrolyte question, I have come up with the following: Electrolytes are important, that is obvious, and electrolytes are helpful in the bowel. As always, too much of a good thing is bad but a high...

If I am hearing you correctly, you are feeling sick of being sick. We all go through it whether it is an unrelenting cold or a fatal chronic wasting disease like CF. Or so it can be. If I had the foreknowledge at 22 my ultimate diagnosis would be CF, I probably would have been more concerned...

If you copyright the poem make sure to correct the one typo at your first use of "Spirit within(g) me". I make typo's so easily and often and normally would never correct a word. I think so much of your writing it should be shared. LL

Indeed you capture the indomitable spirit that seems to be the hidden genetic component in CF survival. As a little boy my parents went from my pneumonia with meningitis to encephalitis interposed with the real fear that either was polio. For me I pushed on, what was happening was just more of...

Most of my CF embarrassment comes when I've had to use a public restroom. Many of us got into toilet overflows, clearing a restroom with gas warefare or worse the whole restaurant or such but my worst hit last year with pleural effusion. Otherwise looking and acting fine, an ahem, tickle or...

Osteogenesis Imperfecta is very, very rare. I know a woman in her early thirties with it and was friends with her parents when she was born. Ashley was born with every bone in her body broken. As a young lady, her bones were so fragile her fingers would visibly bend depressing a key on a...

FYI. On the off chance somebody doesn't completely know that large dosages of potassium are potentially dangerous, read on. Years back I was seeing my endocrinologist and he assured me that a large dose of potassium can stop the heart fast, if I wanted to dispatch myself quickly. I wasn't...

I hope you find a resolution to your skin pain. Although I share your shot veins ( i'm waiting to be hooked in as I write) but my skin is OK and always has been. Veins, arteries and nerves drive blood and nerve impulse traffic through the body structurally similar to our national transportation...

And a biofilm is? I think I know which bio-film you are referring to but there are more than one to penetrate sometimes. If you could explain more, it would be very helpful. My favorite biofilm is a kind of chitin or bug shell material. The same material forming the exoskeleton on a beetle...