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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Asthma / July 2006

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StressMonkey - 05 Jul 2006 15:16 GMT
How many people here use oxygen for their asthma?  If you use it, how severe
is your asthma?  I have a dear friend who will be on oxygen for the rest of
her life it sounds like.  I've also had several friends with asthma and all
they ever used were their many medications (which I know can be quite hard
to deal with.)  My severe asthma friend is also on many different
medications herself.  She also said she developed asthma from the pneumonia
she had a few months ago.  She is so bad right now that she cannot do light
housework without getting worn out and not being able to do anything else
for the rest of the day which I know can be caused by any dust she stirs up.
She is 59 so maybe it is her age that is making the asthma so bad.  She also
smoke for almost 40 years and I'm sure this didn't help at all.

I'm hoping things will get easier for her sometime soon.  I also hope
someone can help me understand asthma better.

Thanks.
Ted Edwards - 05 Jul 2006 17:06 GMT
> How many people here use oxygen for their asthma?  If you use it, how severe
> is your asthma?  I have a dear friend who will be on oxygen for the rest of
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> I'm hoping things will get easier for her sometime soon.  I also hope
> someone can help me understand asthma better.

Her symptoms sound more like COPD and/or emphasyma likely brought on by
asthma.  The three seem to be strongly interrelated.

http://www.webmd.com/hw/health_guide_atoz/stc123675.asp?navbar=hw160872
http://www.lunguk.org/news.asp#199
http://www.lef.org/protocols/prtcl-046a.shtml

It is apparently difficult to separate the three.  Try Google and/or
dogpile.com for more.

Ted
StressMonkey - 05 Jul 2006 18:53 GMT
>> How many people here use oxygen for their asthma?  If you use it, how
>> severe is your asthma?  I have a dear friend who will be on oxygen for
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> Ted

Thanks.  I kind of had a feeling about emphasyma but didn't want to just
assume.  From everything she has told me about what she's being going
through, it seemed a little more serious than just asthma.  Not that that's
not serious enough.  But I didn't think that was all.
 
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