11th March 2007
Hello,
Lets see where do I start, I developed asthma at 20 years old, and did not have problems with it unless I got a cold or upper respiratory infection. Then my apartment sustained water damage and I lived there after that for another 3 months. The tightness in my chest and thoat area started the day after the water came into my apartment. And it progressively got worst. My PCP gave me my first round of Prednisone on 10/31/06 for 20 mg. then I got another dose from the pulomonary specialist on 11/19/06 for 50 mg. Then I got another dose from her on 12/09/06 of the Medrol dose pack and again in Dec. 18,2007 40 mg. medrol dose pack. And again on 02/09/07 for 20 mg. of prednisoneand the latest one on 03/14/07 for 10 mg. And yes the side effects are horrible but its better than the bad breathing. The bloating and weight gain of 25 lbs is crazy. I have lost 16 lbs so far. Heck I was already overweight and working out to loose it when I developed shortness of breathe that my rescue inhaler would not stop. Quickly I had to give up walking and then could not climb stairs anymore. Walking across the parking lot at my job was very difficult I struggled to breathe with every step I took. I eventually had to quit my job being a customer service rep and not being able to talk and breathe was working against me. At the end of the month it will be 6 months and life is still not back to normal. Now I have loads of asthma to molds, pollen, dust mites, ragweed, food, smoke and cigarette smoke. I take pulmicort abuterol cocktail in a nebulizer 2x aday. And abuterol nebulizer 2x a day. I use serevent twice a day and abuterol inhalers as needed and atrovent and flovent as needed. I take singular once aday. And Drihist twice a day. I have never experienced anything like this. Even smelling the offending food sends me into a servere asthma attack. I am not able to work anymore and all of my furniture in storage has been taken over by the mold that was in my apartment. I thought by taking the furniture out of the apartment it would not be damages. Well that was a wasted effort. The apartment management would not move me to another unit even after I begged them to move me due to health problems caused by the mold. They are still saying there is no mold in the apartment even after I showed them visible mold growing on the walls throughout the apartment. They almost killed me. I am still suffering behind their neglect to move me into one of their sister units they had near by.
Kno-kno
Lets see where do I start, I developed asthma at 20 years old, and did not have problems with it unless I got a cold or upper respiratory infection. Then my apartment sustained water damage and I lived there after that for another 3 months. The tightness in my chest and thoat area started the day after the water came into my apartment. And it progressively got worst. My PCP gave me my first round of Prednisone on 10/31/06 for 20 mg. then I got another dose from the pulomonary specialist on 11/19/06 for 50 mg. Then I got another dose from her on 12/09/06 of the Medrol dose pack and again in Dec. 18,2007 40 mg. medrol dose pack. And again on 02/09/07 for 20 mg. of prednisoneand the latest one on 03/14/07 for 10 mg. And yes the side effects are horrible but its better than the bad breathing. The bloating and weight gain of 25 lbs is crazy. I have lost 16 lbs so far. Heck I was already overweight and working out to loose it when I developed shortness of breathe that my rescue inhaler would not stop. Quickly I had to give up walking and then could not climb stairs anymore. Walking across the parking lot at my job was very difficult I struggled to breathe with every step I took. I eventually had to quit my job being a customer service rep and not being able to talk and breathe was working against me. At the end of the month it will be 6 months and life is still not back to normal. Now I have loads of asthma to molds, pollen, dust mites, ragweed, food, smoke and cigarette smoke. I take pulmicort abuterol cocktail in a nebulizer 2x aday. And abuterol nebulizer 2x a day. I use serevent twice a day and abuterol inhalers as needed and atrovent and flovent as needed. I take singular once aday. And Drihist twice a day. I have never experienced anything like this. Even smelling the offending food sends me into a servere asthma attack. I am not able to work anymore and all of my furniture in storage has been taken over by the mold that was in my apartment. I thought by taking the furniture out of the apartment it would not be damages. Well that was a wasted effort. The apartment management would not move me to another unit even after I begged them to move me due to health problems caused by the mold. They are still saying there is no mold in the apartment even after I showed them visible mold growing on the walls throughout the apartment. They almost killed me. I am still suffering behind their neglect to move me into one of their sister units they had near by.
Kno-kno