Overcoming Pneumonia Susceptibility

[TuffNuttoCrack]

I flunked my first docetaxel infusion in late 2022 and a week later developed pneumonia resulting in me carried by ambulance to the hospital. As I said in my bio, I was told that another six hours without intervention, I would have been lost. I spent four days there with "tank car" loads of vancomycin. Fortunately I recovered.

But in late March of this year, I had a procedure at the hospital to help a swallowing disorder called achalasia, that is really a bad deal, no food can go down. Three days later after the procedure where they botox your esophagheal valve, I developed a really bad form of pneumonia. In my opinion it was hospital acquired pneumonia, where you catch a really deadly form of the bug, that had mutated to a point where antibiotics don't have much affect. You might want to google hospital acquired pneumonia. My wife got it three days later after I did, then my 89 year old mother in law got it. After a course of 850 mg amoxicillin and still crackles in my lungs, it was time to go to the hospital. I spent 16 days there, really tough, as my family thought this was the end, both my nurse daughters taking time off from their respective jobs to help my wife. At the hospital tried various antibiotics augmentin, zocyn, doxy, levoquin, vancomycin, etc. Sometimes it is like that...... when you have to throw something up on the board and hope it sticks.

I had previously been vaccinated with Prevnar 13 in 11/19 and Pneumovax 23 in 11/20.

I got it that I have low immunity, but I would like to know if anybody else has this susceptibility, have you tried other vaccines, what else can you do? I hate being in the hospital! Why are the vaccines not working.

Incidentally, six weeks later after this horrific episode I am at 95 percent cardiac capability as far as miles covered per total time on my stationary bike and an estimated 150 percent capability on strength (weight lifting) etc. I'm about 10 seconds off my personal best on my fast walk of a 1500 foot skybridge at 3minutes 30 seconds. It's funny I was telling a nurse in one of these preliminary telemedicine deals with a palliative care doctor.............. that I always try to beat my fast walk time on the skybridge and she wanted to race with me next time I come in.

Ok veterans, time to offer your insights. I am going to beat my cancer with your help, but I have to beat the pneumonia and other predators that are creating setbacks for me, that are really difficult to overcome. I have another post coming soon.

Thank you.

[Mascouche]

I have not had pneumonia ever but I have maybe one or two asthma episodes per month (that I fix with a Ventolin inhaler) and get about 2 bronchitis per year. So my lungs are not fantastic. To reduce my episodes, I've been taking some Quercetin once a day every day and twice a day with I feel a cold coming up.

"A diet rich in quercetin has various health-promoting benefits. It acts as an agent to lower coagulation, hyperglycemia, inflammation, and hypertension. Various clinical studies show that supplementation of quercetin is used to prevent and treat various chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disorders"

And it is even possible that it could be beneficial with regards to prostate cancer as per this article: Quercetin can be a more reliable treatment for metastatic prostate cancer than the localized disease: An in vitro study at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi...

[TuffNuttoCrack in reply to Mascouche]

Thank you for telling me about this. The study is quite interesting. Several months ago I wrote to the president of our hospital with a petri dish idea based on experimental design to optimize the quantities of each type of food group ( for example to find which specific meats, different vegetable types and quantities of each on a plate, could affect cancer cells in a negative way, maybe destruction of specific enzyme markers or the cancer cells themselves. Of course it would be all petri dish stuff as humans are too different to run a study. Never heard back from them. The quercetin I get a lot from a breakfast of blueberries along with a 1/3 cup of mixed nuts, yogurt or high protein oats, ground flax, hemp hearts etc, strawberries and a banana. Going back to my idea, an experimental design maybe doing a 100 runs varying quantities of multiple ingredients could optimize the quantities of each of these ingredients and which ingredients to have the most effect, killing of harmful enzymes, enhancing friendly ones, or downright cancer killers. My hospital doesn't encourage supplements as they have no idea what will happen. I'm stuck at 1000 mg Turmeric, not a penny more. So like the two ideas I shared above, a research scientist could run a group of experiments varying the quantity of multiple supplements at once and determining what affect, say enzyme destruction and figure out an equation to say the optimum recipe. Running the optimization equation they might come up with 2350 mg of Turmeric, 750 mg of Quercetin, 600 mg Vitamin D, 900 magnesium etc. But as I was skimming the all knowing internet I found that antioxidants may actually accelerate breast cancer, so a big precaution here. We do this experimental design in semiconductor manufacturing all the time as you are aiming for yield optimization in the shortest time possible and you can't do experimentation one variable at a time, plus variables may bias each other. You are welcome to share my idea with your oncologist. This idea though is for people with a heavy background in statistics or six sigma. I'll try to eat more quercetin containing foods. Thank you Mascouche!