my asthma was undiagnosed unless i was about 17, when i entered the fuculty of medicine. the smell in the dissecting room was over peared, in my childhood i used to have hay fever especially during summer and spring (pollen grains allergy), iam also allergic to any caffiene containing food (tea, coffee, niscafee even coca) and many other food allergies.
the problem is from dust offcourse any anything with offensive odour.
anyway i started my treatment with ventoline in attacks and as a prophylaxis before entering the dissecting room, sometimes it worked and other times it didn't. anyway i passed the forst 2 years in collage hardly with asthma and it became worse in the third year. iam now taking ventoline every 4 hours and meflonide (corticosteroid) twice aday to control asthma. it is better now as i stoped all those drugs and iam trying to avoid anything that triggers my asthma i only take ventoline on demand but that wasn't what my doctor prescribed i still have chest wheezes and cough because i stopped my treatment by myself.
as a medical student i studied all this in pharmacology so i know exactely the side effects it begane to be more obvious, hypokalemia from ventoline caused me muscle cramps that persist for days, i became more nervous and irretable. and the real disaster was from corticosteroids they are immunosuppressive drugs they masked my infection for a whole month so i got bacteremia after all those i decided to stop my treatment also it was so bothering to me to take inhalors 8 times per day. and everyone keep looking at me saying oh poor, that was so disturbing to me. i don't know how to deal with all this and i know if i didn't continue my therapy it will get worse.
i now can say i need help that's why iam writing here i thought group therapy will be much helpful to me.
wish to hear ur advises
Hi Neo,
I too was diagnosed in my late teens and early 20's. By then alot of damage has been done to your lungs. They say that you eventually get used to the allergens when you've been exposed, but you would be hard pressed to convince me of that! lol
Here is some information to help you when you are speaking to your doctor about managing your health. While this site (and others like it) would never take the place of your physician's advice, it will help you with questions when you see your doctor. As a medical student, you probably know most of this, but it never hurts to look it over again.
Here is my sharepost about my adult diagnosed asthma.
First, I would start by reading the overview about asthma located here.
You can check your symptoms here and if you think you might be having some issues that are related to something other than Asthma, you might find that here. Also, there might be symptoms you had not considered.
You can check the medications you are taking here in the medicine's database. There might be treatments that would be good for you that you are not using now or might not even know about.
You can read up on treatments here. This information is great if you need help asking the right questions for your doctor.
Sloane Miller is a resident expert here on the asthma site. Not only is she a licensed psychotherapeutic social worker, she is an asthma sufferer herself. You can read more about Sloane here and read her shareposts here.
I hope you find this information helpful. Make sure you explore all treatments and options when you are speaking to your doctor. Stay in touch and let us know how you are doing!
Vicki M