Three weeks ago I was cleaning out my basement which had a lot of mold in it which I didn't know at the time..I began having breathing problems. I've had asthma for over 10 yrs now but was always mild. I live in Michigan and the weather has been very hot and very humid...which hasn't helped matters at all.. I used my rescue inhaler but it continued to be a problem. Within days it just got worse. I was using my inhaler as much as I could. Finally I called my doctor, he was on vacation, they suggested I go to a local clinic as the doctor on call in the office was already booked full. So I went to the clinic. they also were booked but said they'd fit me in. After an hour of waiting (in air conditioning which seems to help a bit) I was seen by a doctor. With the initial exam of listening to my heart and lungs told me everything was good...but he did take an xray..from which he told me I had a swollen lymph node in my chest and a possible infection...he then went on to talk about luekiema, lymphoma etc. pneumonia and all things that would cause a swollen lymph node... at the time I was having lots of pain across my chest, it was tight and even my ribs hurt from trying to breathe. He told me it would take 5 days to get the results back from the radiologist and I should take alleve for the pains . That was it.. good bye... Bye This was on a Wed.. by fri. I was still in distress so I called my doctor's office again. This time a nurse talked to me and said she'd speak with the doctor on call and call me back. She called me back and said they would fax in prescriptions for me of a steroid to help the breathing and an antibiotic.. To take them over the weekend and she made me an appointment with my doctor for Mon.
Well to make the story shorter, they never faxed in the prescriptions so I waited and suffered all weekend. On Monday morning I saw my doctor and received the prescriptions and he said he would send for the xray results from the clinic...come back in a week, which my next appointment was 9 days later. At this time after having taken the medications I was a bit better but still having problems. The clinic verbally told my doctor that xrays were fine but did not send over the radiologists report. So my doctor ordered another xray be taken at the hospital this time. I am still waiting for any reports. I am now on azmacort inhaler, as well as taking Singular every day, I also use Spirevia every day and of course my ventolin inhaler as often as I need. Each place I went it was like they didn't believe I am having problems breathing.. it's like ok we'll try this or that.. but nothing to help quickly....at the clinic he said he could give me a treatment but I wasn't wheezing..I rarely wheeze even at the worse times.. and he mentioned giving me a steroid but never gave me anything.. do these medical people not realize how scary and painful it is not to be able to take a good breath?
