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To: MamaLucci
Sounds like asthma needs to be reclassified as an autoimmune disease.

I'm not sure what is going on here.  Times have changed yet asthma is getting worse.  Scary.

6 posted on 03/17/2006 7:19:55 AM PST by SheLion (Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
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To: SheLion
....yet asthma is getting worse. Scary.

Yes....and autoimmune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and lupus are reaching near epidemic proportions......scary, indeed.

7 posted on 03/17/2006 7:24:25 AM PST by MamaLucci (Mutually assured destruction STILL keeps the Clinton administration criminals out of jail.)
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To: SheLion

I developed asthma in my 40's. Cold air was the number one trigger for me but eventually I was short of breath nearly round the clock. I was treated by my primary care physician but I felt I was getting worse...sucking on that albuterol canister all day.
I went to an allergist who discovered that the only allergies I had were to cats,which I knew, and oak. He took me off all of the meds my Dr. had prescribed and gave me Pulmicort. I feel as though I am asthma fee. Not a single episode in over a year and I have never opened my albuterol prescription since it's last refill in July.
The allergist is stunned by my progrss. According to him my lung function is nearly 100%. Can you outgrow adult onset asthma?


11 posted on 03/17/2006 7:43:32 AM PST by surrey
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