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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Asthma / January 2007oxygen and sedation
I've had endoscopy done yesterday (for GERD). Apprently they did not find any GERD. However, I made an iteresting observation that I would like to inquire about. They put me under sedation and gave me oxygen to help breathing during sedation. When I woke up after the procedure with the oxygen tubing in my nose, I felt so good asthma-wise as I haven't felt for a year (since my asthma started). The effect lasted for the rest of the day, and I blew my PFM to 860 (normally it's constantly at 810). Is that an effect of O2 or sedation? If it's the O2, does that say anything about the mechanism my asthma, which no once can figure out how to control (I only respod to oral steroids, and very slowly)? Does that mean I have to get on O2? basically there are no magical cures which is why its extremelly frustrating. If I were you I would get into good air , free from ozone and particulates and see if you do better outside. Inside you can make sure the furnance air ducts have good filters. If you do better and can afford your move. The presidents press secretary said something very interesting before the Presidents State of the Union Address. He said people don't have to or shouldn't have to compromise between their jobs and damaging environment affects. Yet that is exactly what is happening . or else I wouldn't have or couldn't have expected for him to say that in defense of something said . > I've had endoscopy done yesterday (for GERD). Apprently they did not > find any GERD. However, I made an iteresting observation that I would [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > (I only respod to oral steroids, and very slowly)? Does that mean I > have to get on O2? > The presidents press secretary said something very interesting before > the Presidents State of the Union Address. He said people don't have to or > shouldn't have to compromise between their jobs and damaging environment > affects. Great, but nothing will happen in that department for years to come. And I decided that I am not moving, since I will develop allergies to smth else, and lose my great job. My boss is supportive and offerred to install HEPA filters in my office. Giving up and accepting that there is no cure is just not my style. And writing to a congressman asking to please take care of me is not helpful wither, since I am not even a citizen of this country. The more information I get the more I know. And someone who reads this group and identifies with my pattern, will know learn new, too. That was the point of the OP. >> The presidents press secretary said something very interesting before >> the Presidents State of the Union Address. He said people don't have to [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > group and identifies with my pattern, will know learn new, too. That > was the point of the OP. NO POLITICIAN WILL HELP YOU IMMEDIATELY This is not good news but if more people wrote and if news media reported the same things like airnow publish on its site more might be done. Till then I ask people is there anything good for a society to have to live in moderate or worse particulate pollution? Can someone show me why proven damage from this type of air is not talked about assuming a city gets that amount each day or most days. Why is this not as important as Prince coming to town . As for hepa filters, I give it one month before that or any effect dies off. I find "miracle" stories of asthma cures (or relief) on line all the time. I wish I could get statistics on that (how many of apparently hopeless asthma patients find relief with a "miracle" drug/regime/ diet). 1%? Works for me. And the miracle does not need to be instant - a gradual improvement over several years qualifies. But I bet that our chances of getting better in our lifetime due to a improvement in global polution are much smaller than our chances of getting better due to a miracle cure that we are free to search for. AFAIR, according to LBNL, if we stop all industry at this moment, it's still going to take ~100+ years to reverse the levels of CO2 and its effects back to the levels of the pre-industrial-revolution days, due to the inertness of the oceans. Not in my lifetime. >I find "miracle" stories of asthma cures (or relief) on line all the > time. I wish I could get statistics on that (how many of apparently [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > the levels of the pre-industrial-revolution days, due to the inertness > of the oceans. Not in my lifetime. Yes but that doesn't mean if one could , people who generate adult onset asthma from continued exposure, could n't escape it. There are tens of studies to show the correlation. For instance, in my city and most cities we can find a street where people live with heavy traffic on it daily. That in of itself can show that car exhaust ( let alone coal or other polluters) would kill or sicken people who live there much more then people living in clean air and make no mistake there are huge differences between bad air and good air places. The reason that these studies are not done? My lawyer said , the laws that have been in place, makes it almost impossible to sue the polluters. There is much money to be made from other peoples miserty in additon |
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