Guest guest Posted July 15, 2008 Report Share Posted July 15, 2008 Sounds like you had a very successful dr's appointment. I seem to do ok on advair but have never tried symbicort! you blew very good numbers! Thats awesome! good that your dr gave you the neb too..sometimes if your doing good they arent so forthcoming with them! Does he do spirometry in his office is that why he knew how much more air you could get? Do you have an asthma action plan in place? new treatment - Bronchial Thermoplasty> > My MD was telling me about a new, experimental treatment for asthma.> I've listed a little info below. Anyone know anything about it?> > - - - - - - -> > About Bronchial Thermoplasty> > > Bronchial Thermoplasty is a new investigational outpatient procedure> that is performed in the hospital bronchoscopy suite. Bronchial> Thermoplasty is currently performed only in conjunction with the AIR2> Trial. The objective of the procedure is to reduce the airway smooth> muscle in all airways reachable by the bronchoscope in hopes of> reducing the airways ability to constrict. A Bronchial Thermoplasty> treatment session is expected to take less than an hour to complete;> it is expected that three treatment sessions will be required to treat> the entire lung system. Bronchial Thermoplasty is an outpatient> procedure. No general anesthesia is used, no incision is necessary,> and there is no need to stay overnight. Patients will stay on their> current asthma medications for the duration of the study.> > > ------------ --------- --------- ------> > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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