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<blockquote data-quote="busywend" data-source="post: 181187" data-attributes="member: 391"><p>She is on prednisone for the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), I believe they have been trying to titrate down for 4 months now - I am not sure it should take that long, though. </p><p> </p><p>I absolutely believe if they had drained the cyst the back issue may not have come up at all. She was limping and started using a walker due to the pain behind the knee. I think just the difference in the way she had to move, and that she fell while having to move so gingerly, are what ended up causing the spinal fractures. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Her oxygen level is really good right now even without adding any. Could it be that the depressed breathing (I read some of her medications can cause that) is making her have to take breathes more often and they are smaller - but she still gets enough oxygen? </p><p>The reason I ask is because I have a feeling she is not eating because she can not breathe while she eats.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="busywend, post: 181187, member: 391"] She is on prednisone for the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), I believe they have been trying to titrate down for 4 months now - I am not sure it should take that long, though. I absolutely believe if they had drained the cyst the back issue may not have come up at all. She was limping and started using a walker due to the pain behind the knee. I think just the difference in the way she had to move, and that she fell while having to move so gingerly, are what ended up causing the spinal fractures. Her oxygen level is really good right now even without adding any. Could it be that the depressed breathing (I read some of her medications can cause that) is making her have to take breathes more often and they are smaller - but she still gets enough oxygen? The reason I ask is because I have a feeling she is not eating because she can not breathe while she eats. [/QUOTE]
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