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[Guest guest]

Asthma is part of COPD. Are you sure the dr said the diagnosis had

changed? Do you have any other breathing/lung diseases?

>

> HI

> I am new to this group I just joined. My husband thought it would

be a

> good idea for me to join some groups regaarding my new diagnosis

of

> asthma. i was misdiagnosed at first with COPD my pulmonolgists

just

> updated my condition. I'm still trying to find out things that

trigger

> my condition but I'm pretty controlled prophylatically at this

time

> with Advair, inhalers and neb txs. Anyway i've been reading some

posts

> and am hopeful i will get some ideaas from all of you that have

been

> living with this disease longer then I have.

>

> Later

> Rae Ann

>

[Guest guest]

Hi,

My son is a severe asthmatic. Although since being put on Advair and

upped to the 250 dosage he seems to be doing alot better. He's even

been able to do short sprinting on the track team (although it does

keep him from being really good...it is good for his lungs and body

to exercise).

He is a patient at Children's Medical Center in Dallas which is a

WONDERFUL facility with a great out patient clinic. It is suppposed

to be one of the best asthma hospitals in the country. I have taken

two 2 hour asthma education classes in the last 4 years and learned

ALOT that specialists never told me when they " diagnosed " him at age

1 since it ran severely on one side of his family and I found out

being adopted (when I had to get updated family medical history for

my health problems) that it ran on the other as well severely.

Winters are terrible for us and they are remodeling the schools here

and he has been attending two in the past 3 years with extensive work

dust, painting, cleaning, and it has wreaked havoc on his health (and

teachers and other asthmatics there). I miss alot of work with him

being ill. I have problems holding jobs....I am a really GOOD hard

worker which saves me though.

Well this is long but I have no one to really talk to about this that

understands.

Thanks,

in Dallas

PS you'll find I have no short stories lol

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the warm welcome! I'll check out those sites too.LLL Ft Worth, IBCLC,RLC--

[Guest guest]

Welcome ! I order supplies from either grogans.com or greatmedicalsupply.com most of the time. Good to see you here!

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Hi everyone. I'm new to the list so wanted to drop an introduction.My name is and I'm in Fort Worth, Tx. I've been an LLL leader for 6 years and have 4 children. I recently passed the exam & am now starting to put things in place for PP. My biggest question is where to find supplies.