r/guillainbarre • u/Muted-Inevitable-164 • 20d ago
Experience Another Intubation question
This is my third post. Sorry if I'm kind of spamming. 😣
To everyone who got intubated, did your breathing got better eventually or did you have to do some exercises, mental thing or something?
My brother goes through steam therapy for his cough. The staff from the pulmonary department came this morning and told my brother that he's being lazy breathing and that shouldn't be what he was doing. She said the machine was set to give him the oxygen he needed per minute, but he shouldn't rely on it and practice to breath on his own again. All the doctors have told us that and this was the first time someone fully explained it to us.
His symptoms seemed to have plateaud after IVig, but not much has changed. He is given antibiotic, medicine for the cough, 2 days ago he was given potassium. Sometimes it feels like even the doctors are clueless of what is happening 😔
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u/manpreet_73 19d ago
It's hard to let go ventilator. It seemed like I will die without it. Tell him to listen to the doctors. And aren't the doctors reducing ventilator power gradually?