Tests Prove Asthma - Asthma Message Board

laci · 02-04-2003, 07:15 PM

Some feedback, please.

What brought your doctor to the diagnosis of Asthma?

Did the doctor say it was a hunch?
Was it after he heard things from your breathing?
Or was it the results of a breathing test?

I need to figure out exactly what I have. I won't see the pulmo til March.

creinha · 02-05-2003, 06:27 AM

Laci,

My doctor diagnosed mine by:

1. Listening to my breathing. (Can hear sounds.)
2. A normal lung x-ray.
3. My description of my symptoms. (Wheezing, being able to breathe in and not out.)

Hope this helps.

Cheri.

2mmk · 02-06-2003, 05:16 AM

My doctor diagnosed me:

-symptoms I was having
-listening to me breathe (very wheezey)
the above made him do the following:
-breathing test, (clipped my nose and made me breathe in and out and the amount of (air?) was measured - or I guess it measured the compacity of my lungs??

Hope this helps.

wrin · 02-06-2003, 11:53 AM

I had hideous symptoms, and finally got frustrated and went to the doctor and said "send me for lung testing, this is idiotic," and I did.

laci · 02-06-2003, 05:48 PM

Wrin:
When you went for your lung tests, how was your exhalation rate? Mine was very good. And that's why he doesn't think it's asthma.
I know -- they think -- it's a mold inhalation inflammation. I know because it happened in Nov. and since then I've had chronic sinusitis and asthma flareups. The whole respiratory system is involved when you have a sinus inflammation -- not an infection. Although I had one of those for 3 weeks just before xmas.
I'm now finally put on anti-fungal medication & prednisone for just 6 days. I've been telling them all along to do this. I pray this will take care of this fungal sinusitis problem. If not -- it could be surgery.