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Al M - 31 Jan 2007 11:47 GMT

i have been looking for help and information and finally found this
group. I have been diagnosed with adult asthma and understand very
little about it. It was not hereditary, I have never smoked tho my
parents were both chain smokers, it just showed up. I am having a
terrible time with with it.

I have no insurance as my company doesnt offer it and health insurance
on your own isfar more than I can afford. The doctor gave me one
inhaler and prescribed albuterol. the oneinhaler did not seem to
help. Nor did the Mucinex she suggested. I can after about 2 months
see only a slight improvement. My voice has improved some but the
persistant cough is still there. and now Im having so much drainage...
I have to carry a spit cup just about everywhere I go and about every 2
to 3 days I have to throw up the mucus in my stomach since it cant
process it. any temp change hot or cold brings on a coughing spell.
I just need to get an understanding of what is going on as I am
clueless.

Thanks in advance

Al
Macon, Ga. USA

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NorthShoreCEO - 31 Jan 2007 15:44 GMT

I'm just wondering if you had an illness within the past year that hit you
hard in the chest? Flu, bronchitis, pneumonia or a really bad cold?

In some cases, an illness can be the onset of adult asthma. There are
bacteria (mycoplasma and chlamydia pneumoniae) that can accompany one of the
above illnesses, and sometimes it remains in the tissue long after the acute
illness. It can either cause asthma or make a persons asthma worse. The
fix is taking Azithromycin for three days in a row at 500mgs, followed by
weekly doses of 750mgs up to twelve weeks.

There's a support group that I'm moderating where you'll find a lot of
studies about this:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/infectious_asthma/

I had asthma for more than thirty years before I took the antibiotics as
prescribed, and I've been asthma and asthma-med free for over 3.5 years, and
my son has also been asthma and asthma-med free for over three years.

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Al M - 31 Jan 2007 22:54 GMT

I have taken a new job about 9 months ago and it is an onsite property
management job. Before me they had a problem with the washer
overflowing. It is located in the kitchen at the wall to the living
room. My boss remembered and told me to look and sure enough there was
mold and mildew. we threw the carpet and padding out and I sprayed
for the cleanup It really got bad about 4 months ago. after moving in
here. so its possible thats what finally triggered the onslaught of
asthma. I now have the constant cough tightness of the chest and
neck. ezcema and the whole nine yards.

also someting I dont understand sometimes the glands on both side of my
neck swell. especially at connecting point to my shoulders
they dont hurt just swell and are puffy like a fluid buildup. does
anyone know what is causing this?

Like I said I am clueless. I am just now trying to learn about asthma.

Thanks

AL

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NorthShoreCEO - 01 Feb 2007 01:44 GMT

I've heard of people whose onset of asthma was with exposure to mold, but it
sounds like in your case, the mold just worsened an already existing
condition.

For at least fifteen of the last thirty plus years I had asthma, there was a
swollen glad on the front of my neck that would never go down. My doctor
just explained it as some kind of infection, but that never made sense to
me, since I wasn't sick when I asked him about it. As soon as I was treated
with Dr. Hahn's protocol for infectious asthma, the swelling went down and
it hasn't been back since. I think, at least in my case, the bacterial
infection that resided in my body all those years, caused the swollen gland.

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