So having figured out what I had it was time to talk about treating it. The treatment was to give me prednisone, a steriod, to see if it would knock down some of the possible inflamation in my lungs. Of course prednisone just created havoc with my blood sugar, since I'm Type 2 diabetic. So I'm having to take doses of insulin to get things half way stabilized. After 30 days they decided that wasn't doing anything so they cut back the prednisone and combined that with imuran, an inti-rejection drug. After another 30 days it became apparent that wasn't working also. At this point in time I'm down to about 70% of my lung capacity.
It turns out that my niece is Scientific Director of Toxicology for a major drug company, and is actually working of pulmonary fibrois. According to her, what they gave me was cutting edge 20 years ago. Unfortunately, no one has been able to come up with anything better.
