laurasari

I am new to asthma but I want to let you know that I also complained about shortness of breath. I complained to my cardio on a routine follow up exam. I go every 6 months. He did not feel it was cardiac. He sent me for a pulmonary function test. He called me with the results telling me he felt there was aproblem but it was out of his area of expertise. He was going to fax the report tomy GP and my neuro becasue he said he did not know if it was from my neuro problems or if I needed to see a pulmonary Dr.

I did not hear from either so called GP. He said the results would not make me short of breath. I had a regular exam schedulaed the following month so I waited. When I saw him he said he felt I needed to do more exercize. That was funny cause I do walk and had been doing Curves when tis started. He did however order a chest XRAY. I started exercizing that hurt my leg. Whjen I went o my neuro for my regular follow up he told me agian my right leg was weak I needed physical therapy and that could make it more difficult to walk. I have MS I finally went for the chest XRAY then GPs nurse says see pulmonary. He initially said could be neurological ,could be anxiety, but lets listen. He said this was easy don't I hear the wheezing. I told him I didn't and my GP said my lungs were clear just like yours did. So now I have asthma. He had to be careful what drugs he gave me because he was afraid of drug interactions with the many meds I'm already on.

I hope if it continues you insist on further testing if you don't feel it's anxiety. If it is anxiety you might want to try some relaxing form of yoga. I believe in it's benifits for many things.

I wish you good luck
laurie f