The antimuscarinic (benztropine) may actually assist with your breathing by relaxing the walls of the bronchi and rest of the respiratory tract. Other muscarinic-selective (as opposed to nicotinic) acetylcholine receptor antagonists are used in asthma therapy. So it may well be providing an added bonus on top of its intended effects.
I hope you feel better soon ren *squeezes*
Just had mine refilled today, and good job too, had the pharmacist prepare and give me my oxycodone IRs before she did anything else of mine so I could take some straight away. Whilst its not a burn or anything serious, I acccidentally must have wiped my face with my hand after (finally) finishing the distillation of something I'd been beavering away at, and got either some vacuum grease, vac pump oil or a trace of the ketone being distilled in my eye. Not the eye that I usually wear the eyepatch over either, my 'good' (or at least, un-burnt by corrosives within a couple of decades give or take a year or two either way) eye and its irritated and stinging, making my eye water, mostly stinging when I blink. Did wash the eye out several times and wipe off my eyeball with a paper towel soaked in cold water, use some hyaluronate sodium eyedrops (an eyeball lubricant that comes in liquid form that I've had a lot of prescribed me after that incident due to the fucking pigs tampering with things that resulted in me getting hit in the face by a jet of boiling, highly corrosive alkalis and badly bured and temporarily blinded, lucky not to have been so permanently. So I got plenty of those eyedrops around, found them much nicer to use than the two ointments tried first which proved intolerable in a sensory way and hypromellose drops which I found too viscous and still uncomfortable)
Its calming down now. Difficult to wash away because the ketone in question has very low to near absent solubility in water. But its calming down now after several hours. And a good solid dose of morphine and oxycodone of course are doing their job nicely in rendering the discomfort much diminished. Not in acute pain, just irritated a fair whack mostly when blinking although being in direct sunlight isn't made any more pleasurable either.
The eye drops and painkillers are helpng though and I'm staying out of the bright sunlight anyway and turned the lights off in the windowless room I'm in both for additional comfort and because I'm about to fire up one of my videogames and get back to clearing a very large, nasty-critter-infested, hostile psyker-filled alien submarine that my interceptor craft shot dogpiled, armed with the heaviest of conventional weapons retroengineered from alien tech and some with the latest in advanced weaponry, something like an antimatter-fuelled sonic pulse-based armor-piercing micronuke, plus a handful of conventional nuclear-tipped torpedoes up the backside, eventually brought it down, although not without several craft being almost wiped by a single hit from the massive heavy weapon batteries aboard what appears to be one of the, if not the heaviest of their heavy dreadnought-class battlecruisers. A lot of work to do, a lot of tough fighting too, especially since for some bloody bug in the game, causing my troops to be left starting without any ammunition for their firearms whatsoever, and carrying only close-combat weapons, some explosives and the ammunition carried in the sonic cannon-mounted grav-tank luckily on board the troop transport sent in, and quite a few very, very well trained psyker troops of my own that are more than capable of taking temporary control of the enemies faces and forcing them to throw over their weapons, or arm grenades and drop them at their own feet to blow them to hell, enabling recovery of some ammunition so as not to have to rely solely on a few grenades, hand-to-hand close combat weaponry and the tank, which is excellent for cleaning the map of both hostiles and any terrain that gets in the way with its heavy weapon mount, it is insufficient to cut through the external walls of the alien sub however, and due to the bug, the two heavy weapons/demolitions specialist troops found themselves without any ammunition for the hugely destructive sonic pulse-wave torpedo launchers carried for just such a purpose, and have only grenades, no demo charges left. So its been a matter of going in there, room to room, tossing grenades and listening for screams, and sneaking up to backstab the enemy in order to recover weapons and ammunition.
