copd
"I have COPD.  Experienced an exacerbation of the condition one evening.  Went to ER.  Coughing, shortness of breath and difficult breathing.  I was given a Nebulizer treatment with the medication Albuterol Sulfate in ER and sent home with a Nebulizer machine to do the breathing treatment 2 x daily, AM and PM.  Also, given 2 Prednisone before leaving ER with prescription for 14 tabs taken at various intervals until gone. I really felt great, full of energy, but as down to last of the medicine, feeling very achy all over, rather flu like.  I know it is going off the Prednisone, as have taken it before some time ago, and you just kind of "crash" when you stop."