if you have asthma...

[Guest guest]

are you more prone to bronchitis and pneumonia???

I have been suffering for the past several years with bad cases of

bronchitis,pneumonia, sinus infections, ear infections and most recently a cold,

that turned into bronchitis that turned into antibiotic resistant pneumonia.

After 6 days on meds for bronchitis I was coughing so bad I was gagging and had

bladder " issues " at the same time.. I went back to the doc, he did an x-ray and

said it was pneumonia and gave me levaquin, after 5 days on that it was even

worse so another x-ray and the pneumonia was worse, he sent me straight to the

ER who admitted me but couldn't figure out what was up. I was able to get an

appt with a Pulmonary specialist the following week and he did various scans,

multiple blood tests and a broncoscopy. My airways were VERY inflamed and I

ended up on Prednisone for 22 days(which I finished last night thank goodness!!

it was hell in itself!) I had a follow up with the doc a week after the

broncoscopy and he's telling me he thinks I have asthma...does any of this fit

with asthma?? They did some allergy testing through blood work and I'm allergic

to various animals, trees, grass etc..but I'm not around those things at this

point and I just don't get it?!!

Nadia