bronchitis and anew puppy

[sleeplessinsd]

Here is my situation I have been a cpap user for about 3 -4 years and it helps recently we brought home a new puppy. he wakes up at around 430 to be fed. I get up and feed him and then go to sleep in the other room without my cap machine. I usually sleep from 500 to 7 or 8 with oath machine. My wife works in a pediatrician clinic she got sick brought something home and probably gave it to me I think. now I have a persistent dry cough and rasping wheezing.

have seen the dr 2xs he says it is chronic bronchitis ( bronchitis is a symptom not a disease) I have been on antibiotics( 500 mg augmentin) for a week doing breathing, treatments with albuterol nebulize,r flushing the sinus cavities with a salt water solution. using Claritin to stop any nasal drip, and throat lozenges to control the cough, as well as a codeine cough syrup suppressant prescribed by my doctor.

The bummer is that the only reason I go into the other room is to let her sleep so her puppy doesn't wake her up.


so is the cough i have from not using the cpap all the time while I sleep or is it the bronchitis

have any of you developed a cough after not using the cpap?

do you all always use the cap all the way through the night?

[herefishy]

More'n likely the Bronchitis, it hangs on forever, sometimes. I had it all the time as a child and never did a doctor give me antibiotics. Try Guaifenesin to bring up the goop.

[chunkyfrog]

And drink plenty of water. The drug needs water to thin your mucus.

[palerider]

so is the cough i have from not using the cpap all the time while I sleep or is it the bronchitis

have any of you developed a cough after not using the cpap?

do you all always use the cap all the way through the night?

I don't understand this "not using the cpap"... I *always* use the cpap.

[Julie]

Cough would be from bronchitis. Why aren't you making more of an effort to use the machine? Yes we use it all night, otherwise what's the point? Every hour you don't use it is not only a waste of the equipment, but a waste of the time you do use it and a waste of your health.

PS - You're on a slippery slope dog-wise btw - you get up at 4 to feed him? What will you in future when he's untrained in other respects? You're doing no one (including the dog) any favors.

[sleeplessinsd]

Use the cpa when I am in my own bed bed it is cumbersome and noisy to move it to the other bedroom in the middle of the night
I am trying not to wake the wife!!!

as for the new puppy I am weaning him off the habit of eating at very early hours but it takes time, I usually use my machine all night it has just been recently with the changes in my sleep patterns but it seems that most of you think the cough is related to the bronchitis and not the not using of the cap machine for the last 2 or 3 hours of the night and early am?

[postitnote]

If you smoke, quit! If you don't then you have the same stuff many of us has the last few months. Two of my grands just had a cough so bad I thought they should go to the ER but the pediatrician put them on Amoxicillin for 10 days so it may take longer to get well. They have 2 more days on the meds but no longer sick.

[Julie]

Why doesn't "the' wife (please don't use that term - it's awful!) move herself to the other room for now til you get your Cpap worked out? Or else get yourself another less expensive one (you can get 2nd hand ones either from someone here or on C's list, etc.) to keep in the other room... but what you're doing is not going to fly, not if you want to get better.

[chunkyfrog]

Shut the bedroom door. Let the pup settle himself down.
Sleep in bed with cpap and with the wife--not the dog.
Did you forget who pays for the puppy chow?
Put your foot down. Be tough--you will have a better dog, and better health for it.

[herefishy]

You might try putting your pup in a crate - he'll hate it at first, then love it, and never have to be let out at night.