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Adult onset Asthma

Posted by cwal @cwal, Dec 24, 2023

A doc suggested I may have adult onset asthma. My only symptom to suggest it is chest tightness at times. I'm wondering if the MAC could be causing the chest tightness due to the inflammatory nature of our airways with MAC. Any thoughts?

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Lisa Lucier, Moderator | @lisalucier | 6 days ago
In reply to @crn "@akaivo102 I did not find consistent asthma symptom relief until I started regularly going to an..." + (show)
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I did not find consistent asthma symptom relief until I started regularly going to an allergist/immunologist as opposed to having my primary care doctor treat my asthma. The biggest problem I see with friends with asthma is that they do not know how to use their inhalers, so they are ineffective. Also, there have been periods during my life when I needed to be on a maintenance inhaler as well as albuterol for emergencies. Do yourself a favor - see a good allergist/immunologist and have that doctor show you how to properly and effectively use your inhalers.

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@crn - will you share more about the treatment plan the allergist/immunologist put you on that gave you some asthma symptom relief?

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