Re: I have more questions

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Hello,

If you are not going to a pulmonary doctor you need to see one. If you are you

need to see

another. You are not getting your questions answered and you are not on the same

page

as your doctor. My primary doc is wonderful but my asthma is over her expertise.

Angel

-- In asthma , " pkukid1 " wrote:

>

> I was on advair and had problems so my doctor took me off the advair

> and put m eon symbiocort. So far i'm doing OK . Does anyone have any

> problems with this ?( symbicort) I can't figure out if my asthma is

> worse than I first thought or if it's just not controlled that well,

> How would I know? When I first went to my doc. in Jan. 2007 I

> suspected mild asthma. He did a breathing test( which he says I'm not

> able to perform) It was done again with albuterol and there was

> apparently a big difference in my breathing. He did 2 or 3 more

> breathing tests over the next 2 visits with " inconclusive " results.

> Still, no asthma diagnosis. In May I had to ask for a peak flow

> meter. At this time he said, " I never told you you had asthma. " IN

> july there was a chest x-ray that he said was good. I assume he meant

> that he didn't see inflamationor whatever? I was having daytime

> symptoms requiring inhaler everyday( using my inhaler as much as 4X a

> day. I had occasional night time symptoms about 2-3X a week.Nearly

> everything triggers some degree of asthma flare up. Some triggers

> result in worse attacks than others.

> Also in July came a diagnosis " allergic asthmatic bronchitis. " IN

> October my asthma got worse I was in my Yellow zone for 2-4 days at a

> time. I finally got sick of it and called the office and they saw me

> the next day. He added advair250/50. It did well in helping me

> control my symptoms but I kept respiratory infections. Right now my

> symptoms are usually mild -moderate and my inhaler use had gone from

> 12X a week to maybe 2. I still have daytime symptoms most days(I'm

> guessing this is because of exposure to my many triggers) NIght time

> symptoms , usually none occasionally mild symptoms not requiring

> inhaler. I'm thinking I shoould do an asthma action plan. Do I need

> this? I've read that it's a necessity for those with moderate to

> severe asthma. I don't know if I'm moderate or mild but just not

> controlled. I'm not trying to self- diagnose but my doctor is just

> too slow in coming to the same conclusions that I've come to months

> before he figures it out. I figure the more I know about what I'm

> experiencing the better I can communicate this to my doctor.

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