Hi Lynne, regarding your immune system, or lack of it! My immune system disappeared a while ago and I was given a treatment called Vivaglobin. This had to be injected via pump into the floppier bits of my belly with each infusion taking one hour to

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Hi Lynne, regarding your immune system, or lack of it! My immune system disappeared a while ago and I was given a treatment called Vivaglobin. This had to be injected via pump into the floppier bits of my belly with each infusion taking one hour to complete. I inserted two needles first, one in each side of my stomach (with only a few tears!), before inserting the last when one of the other pumps had finished. I needed three infusions but only had two pumps.

It was not the most pleasant treatment and I had to put aside one full morning a week, I chose Tuesdays, to undertake this masochistic treatment, a day I soon learnt to hate! Once the needles were in and the pumps attached, I could carry on with minor chores as straps were provided to hang the pumps around ones neck. I looked like an electronic medallion man!

I suffered this for 5 months before one of my consultants, an eminent professor informed me that recent research had concluded that daily doses of vitamin D would do just as well! I stopped my weekly pin cushion practise and gave the vitamin D a try. Lo & behold not only did I improve but my immunity levels increased to almost normal!

Vitamin D is becoming widely recognised as the best and safest form of treatment for immune deficiencies, there is plenty of information list on the web. I take 25 mcg (micrograms) per day, one pill popped with my evening meal and that works for me. Others I know of take larger or smaller doses depending on their metabolism, condition and other requirements. Advice from an immunologist should be sought for this info, GP's and local Dr's will not have the expertise as this is recently medicine. 25mcg per day is a good starting point.

Unfortunately for those in the UK, the NHS does not supply Vit.D alone or in enough quantities so I purchase mine from Holland & Barrett in the form of Vit.D3. It's not expensive and I only need to buy 3 or 4 bottles per year of the 25mcg strength, obviously it will depend on what dosage one uses but 25mcg is the normal recommended dose for adults.

Finally it's nice to hear that a `natural' remedy actually does work! There are no listed side effects or drug interactions either so as my consultant stated, it's one of the safest treatments available!

http://www.hollandandbarrett.com/pages/categories.asp?cid=163 & searchterm=vitamin%20D3 & rdcnt=1

Hope this helps?

Cheers from Mike (Chip) Chapman

Cornwall. UK

To: "asthma " <asthma > Sent: Monday, 20 February 2012, 18:04Subject: Re: Asthma questions Lynne

Been to 2 allergist no allergies. I think I am allergic to myself : (

Doctors no use all say something different.

I am just tired, my immune system is falling apart fast.

Thanks anyways.

Lynne

To: "asthma " <asthma > Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 11:33 AMSubject: Re: Asthma questions Lynne

When my throat is swollen it is usually a sore throat, but, it doesn't usually swell, not that much, that I would worry about it with a cold, but, if I am allergic to something it swells, and I have a hard time breathing, so if I were having what you are having I would be at the Dr.'s soon, or an allergist. That's just what I would do it if were me.

To: "asthma " <asthma > Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 9:43 AMSubject: Re: Asthma questions Lynne

Hi Lynne, the waking with a swollen throat could be VCD (vocal chord dysfunction) very common in people with breathing issues. Maybe mention it to your doc next time you visit, it can be troublesome but in the majority of cases, simple breathing exercises control it.

Just a suggestion.

Dunno what an epipen is so can't help there.

Cheers from Mike (Chip) Chapman

Cornwall. UK

To: "asthma " <asthma > Sent: Sunday, 19 February 2012, 16:02Subject: Re: Asthma questions

A few things I am curious about.

Does anyone wake everyday with their throat swelling tight making sqweeky wheezy sounds in throat (not lungs) and find it difficult to breath?

If you start having a attack and you inhaler is not working does anyone else use an epipen?

Can it take you up to 4 to 6 hours to be able to try to get breathing regulated again after attack and using emer inhaler?

If you have sesitivity to say wood fire, perfumes, truck fumes and you can't breath how fast does it hit you like within seconds or minutes? Do the emer inhaler help?

Lynne

To: asthma Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 7:10 AMSubject: Re: Asthma & Anxiety Disorder

The only difference is with a panic/anxiety attack your heart starts pounding and you feel like you are going to die and you cannot breathe only your inhaler does not help because you are not having an asthma attack and if it does help you are not actually having a panic attack. I know from experience. I was having horrible panic attacks after the birth of my twins in 2005, which brought me to the ER.

Subject: Re: Asthma & Anxiety DisorderTo: asthma Date: Saturday, February 18, 2012, 9:39 PM

 Any way you look at it, an anxiety/stress/panic attack induced asthma attack is scary. I always have my inhaler on me. On the rare occasion I forget it and suddenly I remember I don't have it, I get an anxiety type feeling and feel I could use a hit off the good old inhaler!!!!!!!

It can also be embarrassing. This past summer I had a verbal altercation with the dreadful neighbor woman, known as the old battleaxe. It was about her equally dreadful grandchildren. While listening to her defend these monsters I got upset and angry, all the while attempting to appear cool and collected, all the while getting an asthma attack and gasping for breath, it was awful. I was able. between gasps, to list my demands to her and opened the door and escorted her out of the house. All the while I felt like I was going to die.

Re: Asthma & Anxiety Disorder

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