jaime L manriquez

hello Reshma,

I take 02 only on exertions, it work for me quite well, i walk avery day a bit, may be a block or so, slow, got tired and quit.  Respect of your question of  steroids for your mom Its no problem, my mom also with IPF she took 20mg of PREDNISONE  every day once a day she lived more than 10 years with the deseas..In my case Im ta…[Read more]

Hello Charlene,

hope you are enjoying good summer weather up in Ontario, related to Immunosuppresants, should I take some? never took any,

best regards

Jaime

Hola Rene , you have a very good point there, EGCG extract would be much better , In my case I take about a liter a day of China green tea, three times. Thats lots of water too which is good for us may be not enough EGCG then. How you take the  extract, its a more concentrate tea ?..Anyways I ll be alert to the comments, thanks for your reply, we…[Read more]

hello falks, I m on a green tea for a week already, got it from superstore,  2 little boxes of 20 bags each, inexpensive though, about US$ 2,00 two dollars per box. Will take em all 40 and will comment, best reagrads for all of you friends, hopping something good come out for all of us from researchers on this COVID-19

JAIME

Hi Rene, As soon as I read the article , went to superstore and got myself 2 packs of 20 bags each of GREEN TEA I m on it now since 3 days, feel better, I quit coffee all together though,
my phlegm an cough went down 30%, so will try for 10 days. best regards
jaime

Yes Joe you are right, we hope  something good will come out of this horrible covid-19 , hope its sooner than latter, fingers crossed so researchers take a look at the “ground glass” shape Cat scans ,best wishes for all of you folks

Jaime

Hello Steve Dragoo,

Thanks for your offer, woul like tu discuss with you about serrapetase, I´ll be alert to yours comments

thanks , best regards

jaime

Hello Charlene,

long time no talk, hope you are well ,  In my case can t complaint, doing quite ok with the Phlegm at nites, I discover myself with the combination of two medications …bingo…., sleep 9 hrs. and no phlegm during nite….for our fellow IPFers, Mucinex syroup, and Phlemex with codeine syrup, 1 tablespoon of each  at bedtime, t…[Read more]

hello Kristin, yes , as Charlene said , Metformin its been tested on mice with a good outcome, in my case  i m on it for a while, 850mg a day for my diabetes ll, I have IPF since 2013, I´m  not taking any antifiobrotics, no 02 yet. I think its been good to me. ( I´m 71 )

best regards

jaime

Hi Betty,

I was in Crestor long time ego( 2 years) for my IPF 1 month, Gave me lots of bones and muscles pain, so I quit, in 2019 I was on atorvastatin wich is about the same , for 1 month no results, my pulmonologist precribe it for Respiratory track inflamation , did nothing on me,    Now Im  on Prednisone  5mg a day, good results…… bes…[Read more]

hi Luke,

refering to your question, my pulmonologist presccribed me statins for the respiratory track inflamation only , Prednisone work better for me . The studies in Rats showed that metformin it might help on reversing fibrosis, not approved for humans yet…Also Azithromycin it is been tested for ipf …hope some of this  will cure this…[Read more]

Hi Jofac, ……just a bit of info. I ve been aroud quite a while with this horrendus desease, passed through several pulmonologists in Canada and Chile,  I was on OFEV like you for two months, could´t put up with side effects , Statins for example they give it for inflamation of respiratory track( took it for a month did nothing on me) on the o…[Read more]

Hi Carlene , thanks for you words, like I said to Jofac, Im sure you will benefit from the cure for IPF, I´m already too old to see that, but you never know, the cure could come any time from now,  lots researching around the globe.  All  the best for you

jaime

Hi Charlene , Rene and JillT, some time ago we talk about this topic. By the way, Puma Rodriguez,  he was singing live here in Santiago  last week, his case I think is exceptional, and prove that everybody is different when it comes to this horrible desease, my case for instance : diagnosed back at the end of 2012, took ofev for 2 months, c…[Read more]