Kalydeco has given me normal lung function!

Went to outpatients yesterday. Well, it's not as high as I hoped, and more importantly, it's not as high as I feel, but the scores at the outpatients were:

FEV1 2.85
FVC 3.70

Which works out for my age and height as:

FEV1 81.9%
FVC 85.3%

It's official, my lung function has crawled slightly above normal range, (normal range being 80% to >100%)  This is my highest blow since early 2009. 2009 was probably my last really healthy year (in retrospect.) 3 weeks in and Kalydeco has been awesome for me, even the physio was amazed at the turnaround. I didn't even do a best of three on the spiro machine ;-)

To put this into some kind of perspective; my last blow pre-IVs in December was 65%. My blow post-IVs in December was 65%. I had been on 2 weeks of Ceftazedime and Tobramycin and had been going to the gym 3 times a week to try and get rid of as much mucus as I could. After all that time, drug money and effort my FEV1 was the same as it had been before I had started IVs and I was pretty deflated. I was also baffled as these IVs had usually worked for me in the past. I felt slightly better but the cough and mucus were still there. The implications were that my CF was getting worse. All I can say is thanks to the scientists (and the IPIG :-))!

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