Re: health question

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hi Deb! My son and I both have exercise induced asthma, as well as allergy induced, and just about anything and everything induced!

My son gets the chest pains and begins to cough. I wheeze real bad and cough.

Tonya --- "dlsp2k" wrote: Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 17:18:47 -0000To: asthma Subject: health questionHi All,I have a health question. First some background. I am a 54 year old woman. About 7 years ago I started having a very tight chest and a small amount of chest pain after running on my treadmill. It really scared me. I went to the doctor and was given an EKG (normal), chest xray(normal), stress treadmill test (normal) and referred to a pulmonary specialist. He decided from my symptoms and family history (my sister had asthma) that I had exercise induced asthma. He put me on inhaled steroids. The symptoms eventually subsided but it took a while. Before this I had been riding 20 to 30 miles on my bike on the weekends and walking and running on the treadmill almost every day. Since then, I've tried several times to get back to exercising. Each time the symptoms return so I stop. I started my last exercise program in December of this year and the same thing happened except it's worse this time. I've been to the doctor who again did an EKG (normal) and scheduled me for another stress treadmill test. This started after a good run on my treadmill. I had sporadic chest pain. It's now settled into just generalized ache on the left side of my chest. I'm going back in on Tuesday but my question is does anyone on the list have exercise induced asthma.. and if so does this sound like that could be what this is? It's really frightening and frustrating too. It seems that when I get my muscles in good enough shape to stress my lungs I have problems.Deb Check out Ivy Tech State College and Go Further, Faster.http://www.ivy.tec.in.us, sign up for your free email at http://www.ivytech.net

[Guest guest]

hi Deb! My son and I both have exercise induced asthma, as well as allergy induced, and just about anything and everything induced!

My son gets the chest pains and begins to cough. I wheeze real bad and cough.

Tonya --- "dlsp2k" wrote: Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 17:18:47 -0000To: asthma Subject: health questionHi All,I have a health question. First some background. I am a 54 year old woman. About 7 years ago I started having a very tight chest and a small amount of chest pain after running on my treadmill. It really scared me. I went to the doctor and was given an EKG (normal), chest xray(normal), stress treadmill test (normal) and referred to a pulmonary specialist. He decided from my symptoms and family history (my sister had asthma) that I had exercise induced asthma. He put me on inhaled steroids. The symptoms eventually subsided but it took a while. Before this I had been riding 20 to 30 miles on my bike on the weekends and walking and running on the treadmill almost every day. Since then, I've tried several times to get back to exercising. Each time the symptoms return so I stop. I started my last exercise program in December of this year and the same thing happened except it's worse this time. I've been to the doctor who again did an EKG (normal) and scheduled me for another stress treadmill test. This started after a good run on my treadmill. I had sporadic chest pain. It's now settled into just generalized ache on the left side of my chest. I'm going back in on Tuesday but my question is does anyone on the list have exercise induced asthma.. and if so does this sound like that could be what this is? It's really frightening and frustrating too. It seems that when I get my muscles in good enough shape to stress my lungs I have problems.Deb Check out Ivy Tech State College and Go Further, Faster.http://www.ivy.tec.in.us, sign up for your free email at http://www.ivytech.net

[Guest guest]

hi Deb! My son and I both have exercise induced asthma, as well as allergy induced, and just about anything and everything induced!

My son gets the chest pains and begins to cough. I wheeze real bad and cough.

Tonya --- "dlsp2k" wrote: Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 17:18:47 -0000To: asthma Subject: health questionHi All,I have a health question. First some background. I am a 54 year old woman. About 7 years ago I started having a very tight chest and a small amount of chest pain after running on my treadmill. It really scared me. I went to the doctor and was given an EKG (normal), chest xray(normal), stress treadmill test (normal) and referred to a pulmonary specialist. He decided from my symptoms and family history (my sister had asthma) that I had exercise induced asthma. He put me on inhaled steroids. The symptoms eventually subsided but it took a while. Before this I had been riding 20 to 30 miles on my bike on the weekends and walking and running on the treadmill almost every day. Since then, I've tried several times to get back to exercising. Each time the symptoms return so I stop. I started my last exercise program in December of this year and the same thing happened except it's worse this time. I've been to the doctor who again did an EKG (normal) and scheduled me for another stress treadmill test. This started after a good run on my treadmill. I had sporadic chest pain. It's now settled into just generalized ache on the left side of my chest. I'm going back in on Tuesday but my question is does anyone on the list have exercise induced asthma.. and if so does this sound like that could be what this is? It's really frightening and frustrating too. It seems that when I get my muscles in good enough shape to stress my lungs I have problems.Deb Check out Ivy Tech State College and Go Further, Faster.http://www.ivy.tec.in.us, sign up for your free email at http://www.ivytech.net

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Hi Tonya,

Wow - I'm sorry that your son has pain with his asthma but I'm glad

to know that it might be the asthma causing the pain! Does it last

for days after exersizing? Thanks for replying.

Deb

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