re: My Body Has Defeated Me. It's Over.

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A LOT. Like, VERY MANY PEOPLE. And a lot worse than what baby wipes can "cure".

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Interesting. I don't debate I'm a whiner at times. Sometimes baby wipes can't cure them and I have to go on a liquid diet for a day or two with a laxative. Or use prescription suppositories. But at least it's never gotten to the surgery point yet though i would consider that option if it actually helped long term.

bullshite

#1. Go to church or start reading the Bible.
#2. Diet
#3. Exercise
#4. Talk to a Psychiatrist.

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I have failed in life. I have failed physically, mentally and spiritually. I'm not married, I don't have any kids, I live by myself. The world doesn't need me. Very people would cry if I died.

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Everyone is equal in the grave.

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Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.

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Robert E. Howard

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I think you may have misinterpreted my post.

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yours was the last post

Ok

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Are they saying you're having panic attacks? I have anxiety and had a killer panic attack a couple of times, one of which lasted about 3 days. Felt like I couldn't breathe, but cardiovascular was working fine. I was basically hyperventilating trying to catch a breath perpetually.

Anxiety is not logical. That took me a long time to accept and understand. One of the things the docs did was measured my O2 saturation in my blood. If your blood is properly oxygenated, you are medically fine and you're having a panic attack. I don't and didn't have stressors in my life in particular. I learned some things that set it off. Caffeine sets it off and certain food groups do it. Flying does it and so does being in confined places that I can't control and being on a cruise ship does it too. Depression and anxiety are common to experience with each other.

I'm not dismissing the asthma aspect of it, but it is possible you're experiencing panic attacks and not able to differentiate between asthma and a panic attack. I won't pretend to know the asthmatic side of it, but I really thought I was going to die the times I had a panic attack. Even blacked out at one point because I was hyperventilating but didn't understand that is what was going on.

From my end, anxiety is a bitch. I am able to manage my anxiety without taking meds, but it's mentally defeating some days to where all I want to do is lay around but you can't do that.

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So what both my primary care doctor and pulmonologist (of course he doesn't take a lot of time to listen, I think he just tries to get through patients as quickly as possible) have told me is that they think it's a little bit of both.

I am someone who on an airplane loves to have the air blowing at maximum right in my face. I noticed that during the flight my throat dried out really bad. As in like it was hard to clear my throat bad. They think my throat drying out caused me to have an anxiety attack and that due to the anxiety attack the asthma reacted with physical symptoms. Luckily I made it but I was on the verge for a few minutes of doing the same no one ever wants to do. Going to a flight attendant to ask them if they could find out if there's a doctor on board.

So essentially they think it's the anxiety that actually causes the asthma and that if I keep the anxiety under control the asthma wouldn't act up. That's why the doctor told me to take 50mg of Prednisone before flying as well as 0.25mg of Xanax. Now given he wants me to eventually lower the doses of Prednisone as he says Prednisone at that strength isn't good over the long term. In the few flights since then I've take several bottles of water on board with me. I just try to constantly drink so that my throat doesn't dry out.

But why would this just happened? Until 2 1/2 years ago I never had any issues flying. I was never afraid of flying, in fact I enjoyed flying. So why would my body start rejecting it so immediately?

some of us are born winners

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Part of me dreams sometimes about what it would be like if I did die and could see my own memorial. Would many people show up? What would they say?

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Please seek help this afternoon, one of your doctors should be able to put you in touch with someone