Hello to all,
finally I think I have found right community and people to contact.
My name is Ariana I am 23 from Slovenia and yes...I am as well in the "club" of patients who have bronchiolitis obliterans (caused by chemotherapy and radiaton). I have had it for like 15 years and for the last three years situation got worse and what is more, I do not have any pulmonologist here in Slovenia to help me because all they treat me as a complicated patient and as I have had experiences with them, I think they do not want to deal with me because our system....well better not to talk about.
I am actually here to get some advise or suggestion, I am as well ready for new treatments, everything that can my life make more easier and to get back on the old track as I used to. So I got this disease when I was like 10 or 11, and while I was at the pediatrician pulmonologists, everything was fine, seriously, I was using only Flixotide (we tried with applications of Medrol but the treatment was unsuccessful ). Although I just had 30% of capacity I went on hikings, sightseeings, etc. Well, on 2019 everything got worse. I had pertussis and no one except my hematologist, didn't take measures in time. Since then I have changed like three pulmonologist because or they were yelling at me when I need help or they were insisting with therapy which didn't help, etc. With one word, disaster
In this time I have tried like many inhalators, many medicines, honestly it did not help me nothing, maybe Spiolto which I am taking right now. As well right now I have some kind of infection which has been last like for four weeks and beside Spiolto I am taking FAM therapy (Alvesco, Sumamed, Singulair). It is really hard because being all the time limited and barely walking, all the time coughing...this is not my life, I believe I can as I said before, come to back track and go to hike again, so I believe this page, this community can help me or give me advices. I know about my disease it is incurably but I believe with right pulmonologist and right therapy I can stabilize it again.
Welcome Ariana. I hope that @annie2 @carol01 @tonya1980 can provide some insights from their experiences.
Ariana, it sounds like treatments are not working as well as they have in the past. Additionally, it has been hard to find a pulmonologist with expertise in bronchiolitis obliterans. Do you have options to seek care with another specialist? Is lung transplant an option for you?