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Well, thanks to all the advice about my questionable "asthma" diagnosis, I decided to get a second opinion and I am SO glad that I did. My new rheumy had the same reaction to the pulmonogist's glib "no airway collapse, no need for further worry!" answer to all my questions. She said the same thing I said, "Well, no collapse yet - but are we going to wait for it to happen before we get worried!!!!!" She is going to be much more aggressive and I while I am nervous about the stronger drugs she is talking about, I am ready for the pain to stop. She is also ordering a CT scan of my airways, something the other rheumy was reluctant to do since to pulmonogist assured him I was fine. (That is I can still breathe on my own... - quite a high standard, huh? Boy, he made me so mad!!!!!!!)

My only misgivings are in how to tell my old rheumy, whom I really like, that I am, in essence, firing him. All the other times I have switched doctors I had no problem because they were jerks. ;- ) He is a really nice guy. I just think that he is too conservative and also he's not a provider on my insurance plan, so I pay 20% instead of my copay. That was really getting expensive! Any advice?

Anyway, thanks for all the answers to my many questions and I hope that everyone has a wonderful weekend. It's supposed to snow here (Texas) this weekend!!!

Kathleen (Tx)

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