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Reply: Asthma and Skydiving

I agree with Sonya...airsickness is likely not going to play well with skydiving. The...

Vive Bene, Spesso L'Amore, Di Risata Molto (live well, love much, laugh often)

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Reply: New to Asthma at 66 years old!!??

You can indeed acquire asthma at any age. Mine wasn't diagnosed until I was 40--adult...

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Reply: HFA inhalers

The Hfa albuterol inhalers do nothing for me, even with a spacer. Omron makes a small...

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Reply: Fungi infection decission

Sonya, With all the pre-surgery stress I am finding my BP is getting higher and...

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Sonya

I attempted to reply to your post late last night but the internet was acting goofy and...

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(live well, love much, laugh often)

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Reply: Asprin Allergy - very interesting

I also have issues with ibuprofin (it wasn't classifed an allergic reaction we think the...

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Reply: FYI - new research for moderate to severe asthma

Sonya, It was not really a pioneering spirit but sheer desperation. I told the doctor...

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Posted by abbymay16

Sonya,

It was not really a pioneering spirit but sheer desperation. I told the doctor until we had tried all the meds available he could stop throwing his hands in the air saying I don't know what to do...experimentation worked.

Now atrovent is routinely prescribed for those of us with atypical asthma.

I can't remember if you told me you were using or had tried the nasal form of cromolyn (Nasalcrom)....I find it works wonders for my allergies especially since all the antihistamines leave me so drugged I feel like a zombie. It seems to stop the allergy symptoms before they start and has all but eliminated my twice yearly allergy/sinus infections. And I only have to use it twice a day so its not a big deal and doesn't dry out the nose like the nasonex does. During spring/fall allergy season I sometimes use the nebulized cromolyn with a mask...seems to help the nose/lungs and is soothing. (I have also found that if I use the neb pulmicort with the mask it helps the sinus's as well)

Have you tried using magnesium to help with the restless leg? Magnesium seems to calm the RLS (my husband has it so I know its annoying).

As for the pred and no sleep I am entering zombie stage at this point and I still have a week to go--I feel your PAIN!!!!!!!!! UGGGHHHHHHHH. I think tomorrow I taper to 10mg...BUT I am getting to the point FINALLY where I get an occasional hack and not much more than that. So I know things are really headed in the right direction. NOW if I could just sleep...my muscles hurt so bad across my back and I am exhausted. The joys of pred (spoken from a tired stressed out woman who has now had nearly 30 days of the ugly stuff!!! HE HE

Better days are ahead???

Hang in there...

Mattie

PS we got a very pleasant and unexpected 6-8 inches of snow the night before last and return to winter temps, which are expected to last for the foreseeable future as we have an artic clipper headed our way...my lungs were outside today in 30 degree temperatures doing a happy dance!! HE HE WOOOHOOOO!!! Even shoveling heavy WET snow yesterday didn't bother the lungs!!!!!!!!!! (yeah they call me abnormal for a reason)View Thread

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Reply: FYI - new research for moderate to severe asthma

I have been using the nebulized atrovent as well as the inhaler (my twice daily...

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Reply: out of breath

You didn't say whether allergies factor into your asthma, but if that is the case then...

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Reply: Extended use of inhalers(steroids)

I agree with Sonya...the risks of using your daily asmanex is far less than letting your...

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