Re: urgency of urination, droolinfg, choking,excess phlegm-all the good stuff....

[samantha pudge <samantha_pudge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

i'm glad the detrol works well for you.  detrol did not work for me at all.  it 
made me veryyyyy sleepy.  it took effort to wake up and i felt like i had been 
drugged.  i do take cranberry pills.  while they haven't cured the problem, it 
has been much improved.

i especially enjoyed your humor.

sami
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On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 17:31:01    B.BRUCE ANDERSON wrote:
>....GONE!!  I want to make this belated THANK YOU to whomever out there
>recommended Detrol.   The recommendation was made for the urgency of
>urination problem, which it cured, but it also fixed, as I hoped it would my
>drooling, excess phlegm problem.  I had noted in the TV ads for it that dry
>mouth was listed as a major side effect.  And enough of the effect has been
>to dry up my over productive mouth.  But it ALSO had the unexpected benefit
>of totally curing my choking/swallowing difficulties.  I had been really
>depressed by this problem, wondering how bad it would get, concerned I would
>be faced with accepting a feeding tube much sooner than I had imagined.  I
>had been relegated to eating with very small pieces of food since October,
>when I choked on some fish at a restaurant where we had taken my
>mother-in-law for her birthday.  I choked on it and became unconscious from
>lack of air.  Someone in the restaurant tried the Heimlich maneuver on me,
>and managed only to break my rib.  I owe my life to some really competent
>volunteer rescue squad people who got here with in 3 minutes.  I spent 5
>days in the intensive care unit of a hospital, having aspirated a bunch of
>fish and salad into my lungs.
>    I have been able to take pills with just water and to drink liquids
>without a straw for the fist time in over a year.
>    So, a bleated THANKS to the person(s) who recommended Detrol - my
>miracle drug.  Actually I have also been taking cranberry capsules, also
>recommended by someone on the List for urinary problems, so it could
>conceivably have been them.  I am going to stop them to make sure it is the
>Detrol.  There is some logic in thinking cranberry might help - it does make
>your mouth pucker when you drink it, so it stands to reason it might make
>your pecker pucker too!
>
>Bruce Anderson
>
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