breathing easy

[the_siobhan]

Today was my asthma test.

It was kind of neat. They pumped my lungs full of various concentrations of histamine, and then had me blow into a tube while a computer tracked my lung capacity. No pressurized box this time, but I got to watch my lungs perform on screen.

Final result of the test: I DON'T HAVE ASTHMA.

Let me just repeat that for those of you who may not have gathered the full import of what I am saying here.

I. DO NOT. HAVE ASTHMA. There is NOTHING permanently wrong with my lungs.

Anybody want some Advair 250's? That's a chunk of money I'll never have to throw away again. Ha.

The down side to all this is that now that I have to figure out why the hell I can't friggin' breathe. The most likely candidate is allergies. Which doesn't make me happy. I don't have a lot of faith in that particular branch of medical science.

But still. I don't have asthma. Love a duck.

For my next trick I'm going to regain normal eyesight and grow a prehensile tail.

Comments

[shnells.livejournal.com]

you may also want to go see an ear nose throat specialist and have your laryngeal function looked at. i also was on a gizzillion asthma meds. i unfortunately do still have asthma but very mild compared to what was thought before. i forget the actual medical name for it but basically my trachea tends to colapse which mimics the symptoms of asthma. this is very easily and quickly treated with speech therapy and some very simple basic exercises that take care of that.

also you may not have bronchial asthma but you can still have exercise, diet, or allergy induced asthma. which technically still counts as asthma (i have allergy induced asthma).

good luck working out what's going on with you.

[shnells.livejournal.com]

also, i'm on allergy meds year round (allegra and rhinocort). also, check to see if you have a deviated septum. i couldn't believe how much better i could breathe after i got that sorted.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I do have a lot of issues with my sinuses as well, so an ENT is a good idea.

[geekers.livejournal.com]

The exercise or allergy related options are what I was going to mention. I have exercise-induced, which really sucked when I was a competing amature inline speed skater. People always asked if I was okay when I got off the floor because I was noisily gasping for air (even with the use of inhalers). Not so bad now that I'm a lazy futon potato. ;)

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Fortunately exercise hasn't historically been one for me. Unfortunately, smog is. Not so good, living in Toronto.