Question: I had to reopen a closed account today just so I could continue our talk. I sent you a message earlier but it was in a general question to a pulminologist so I'm not sure if you will get it

Today was not overly bad. Had some good and had some bad. I'm now down to having one recurring symptom bothering me. I have talked of it before in some degree but I'm not sure if I have been really specific.
We have talked of the inflammation and how it affects whole lung not just certain sections. And that I notice it more in upper. Today I was laying on my back reading a book, I layer the book down on my upper chest. I noticed that as I breathed in my lower belly raised but the upper and book stayed motionless. As I tried to change to upper chest I could only raise it a small amount. Is this the inflation of the small airways and the constriction you spoke of that is causing that? Is this the meaning of tightness in chest that comes from inflammation ?

Well tomorrow starts the weekend, it will be a first for me in that I will not have a stressful work project over my head eating up my relaxation time. I hope to use it to play with my bass guitar, watch some movies and eat popcorn. Maybe I'll stop shaving for the weekend and get a scruffy look on the bald head and scraggly look on my face.

Both threads are good

Why 9:30? Because 8 hours would be 5:30 when I must get up. But we know many different things wake me and keep me up.

You know for the past few months, I wake up on some days and I have coughing spell not like the kind you have before you want to clean out your lungs but the type you have as you get before you vomit. It's not everyday but often enough

And chest pain no expectoration

You asked y I went to bed so early. I went at 9:30. To get a try for 8 hours of sleep

Sorry. No chest pain no expectorant

The coughing is only in the morning after I get up
It stops on its own
Lasts a few minutes
It is not everyday
Has been going on since I guess I had last pft and I started using inhaler Flovent

Did I say I stopped the Flovent?

I am still on Flovent.

Say, tonight after work, am I able to have an alcoholic drink or 1 beer with the new medications i am taking?

I never have but one beer/once a month at most. I stopped when it would give me a bad headache, I noticed it came after I took the lexapro.

Does it do the same with the new meds?

Well it would have been a low alcohol content beer but now you say propranolol is not a good mix.