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   Normal Peak Flow Rate For Me? (Asthma board)

14th April 2007
no dr has ever said you have asthma to me but ive been being treated for it..its due to my allergies started 3 years ago when i woke up choking and couldnt breathe at first i was just given an albuterol inhaler used that for 3 years shortly after the first year i was no longer under insurance so i kept using the albuterol had to use it on a daily basis sometimes more then once a day but couldnt do nothing since wasnt covered by insurance then all the sudden after using the albuterol this was 2 months ago it caused extreme anxiety upset stomach loss of appetite nashua fast heartbeat and i felt like tightness in my chest so between feb and now ive been to the er twice has blood urine chest xrays and ekg done both times everything came back fine went to a private dr which i had to pay for due to no insurance and he also did an ekg and was all good and he gave me singulair a new rescue inhaler xopenex and azmacort but ive been to scared to start any of these cause of whats been going on this past 2 months with medicines and how they been affecting me this past week i dunno if it was allergies or cold but i felt pressure in my head and ears and sneezing runny and stuffy nose then all that went away except for my headache every now and then but after that all went away i started feeling like a slight tightness in my chest every now and then or i like gasp for air i only wheeze if i breathe out hard so i started useing the peakflow reguarly the past few days and its been 450-500 sometimes a little less then 450 and when i went to the er the first time and he took my peakflow and it was 450 he said that was normal and i think when i did it at the dr it was the same thing.so right now im breathing difficulties that i feel are like the ones i had when i went to the dr and er and nothing was found wrong and i been doing my peakflow frequently and its steady at the same numbers between 450-500..i know i need to get to a specialist to be tested and go through all the allergy tests and stuff but im waiting on my insurance to go through shouldnt be much longer but like i dont get this feeling and what makes it worse like at night when i feel it i get a little anxiey ridden which proably makes it worse
14th April 2007
and for the past 3 nights not last night the 3 nights prior i took one puff of xopenex i didnt really feel much difference im scared to take anymore then one puff the first night i felt a little difference but after taking it the next day my throat was bothering me so i didnt take it last night and i went to sleep and didnt wake up choking or anything when i woke up i did my peak flow it was the same numbers as its been but i still have that feeling i dunno if its possible that im sort of hyperventaling for days on and off now i dunno if thats even possible
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