Cystic Fibrosis Forum (EXP)

This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

Search results

  1. A

    Not coughing enough blood for a bronchoscopy

    Hi everyone, I'll make it short: I've been coughin blood regularly for about 3 weeks now. It's not much, more like a 50/50 mix or even less. What concerns me is that its just been so regularly. This year I had like a 3 month break from coughing blood and now it started again. In the past few...
  2. A

    I cough blood when I drink alcohol

    Hey Guys, I would like to know your opinion about drinking alcoholic baverages. Just to see is the symptoms are the same. Because, everytime I drink a few Beer, I can just feel how my lungs dry up. Weird thing is that every single time I drink, I start coughing up dark stuff. Everytime! And the...
  3. A

    What will VX-809 do for me?

    Hey Guys, just having some thoughts about the VX-809 Drug for people, who have the Delta F508 mutation of CF. As you may have read on my other post, My FEV1 is quite low, around 45%. So I was wondering, what will VX-809 do for me and for others? Will it totally compensate the CF Gene defect...
  4. A

    FEV1 worse then it should be

    Im 20 now and my fev1 is 45%. My story is, that when I was around 14-15 years old my fev1 dropped from 85% to 45% and ever since, its been this low. My lung CT looks for these circumstances pretty good. Thus my lung function should be better. A few weeks ago i went to the hospital because i woke...
  5. A

    sudden shortness of breath

    Hey Guys, yesterday night I was hiking with friends in the woods uphill and as you can imagine it wasn't really easy either. Although I must say, I still had some stamina going up hill, but not as much as my friends. Anyway, it was a lot of fun and we did it all night, we just came back today...
  6. A

    A few questions about sudden FEV1 drop

    Hi everybody! This is my case: When i was 13 years old my lung function was at 101%! At that time I had a pneumonia a few years ago. I had pseudomonas and b.cepacia (sry if i make mistakes I'm german) multiple times and every time I got it I was able to get rid of them. When I was about 16...
Top