Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Asthma Follow up

Today the doctor officially told me I pretty much have Asthma . I'm always surprised at these new problems that arise as I get older, whaa! Not happy about this. I thought I was doing pretty good, many of my recent jogs the last couple weeks have been without the need of using the puffer. 2 weeks ago I went for a test that would give me low doses of a medication to induce an asthma attack. The lab tech told me she would make me inhale a little at a time in separate intervals to see how my lungs react etc. I thought forsure I would last pretty long... to mine and the lab techs surprise I had an asthma attack at the smallest first dose she gave me! Whats up with these lungs! She looked over at me and said ok, the test is done, your lungs are very sensitive :(. The doctor did another test today to measure the exhale airflow, he said I don't have normal readings for my height and weight. (hmm I wonder if he meant I'm overweight haha!) He put me on a daily medicine (hate taking meds!) for 3 months. I'll go back to him in August for another test to see if my airways show improvements. Fingers crossed if they do. Cause if they do, then that will mean I'll be able to exercise longer meaning more weightlossss I think, I hope... always a brighter side right. Now if I can just use my positive spin on the other aspects of my life ;)

6 comments :

  1. Don't you just hate it when your body messes with you?? Thanks for the comment on my blog. I think I'll have a look around, if you don't mind. I love finding new blogs!

    Mrs. Nurse Boy

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  2. Sorry to hear about your asthma :(

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  3. I have had asthma since I was 12. Over the years it has gotten worse, to the point I can't even run 20ft any more. It makes working out very difficult.

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  4. ;( Thanks. This is no fun, and I don't like taking daily meds, I'm scared that they'll cause more changes in the body. grr to that!

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  5. We have no choice though, as we get older we are experiencing many things and diseases will emerge and we cannot do anything about it. That's LIFE! hehehe

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  6. I was diagnosed with asthma about 10 years ago. It's not fun when your lungs suddenly refuse to "cooperate". Homeopathy has helped me though, for several months at a time I can stop using the regular asthma meds (when the treatment is successful), unfortunately the homeopath that has worked wonders with my lungs has quit her job (she got a much better paid job in health administration):( Have to find a new one as soon as possible, but not all of them are as good as her.

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