It's A Great Day, No Matter What Allergies Are In Season! :)

Hi!

My name is Teri and it seems that I've just jumped into the Asthma forum as your new moderator!

I want you all to please continue posting as you have and if you have any questions that you'd like me to check out or answer, I'd be more than happy to do so. yeah

I'll be popping in here on a daily basis and trying to help out whenever, or wherever I'm able to~Please feel free to help me out when I'm floundering, or point me in the right direction!!

Let's make this a great forum for all the present members and all the new ones that will surely make their way here in the future.

Best Wishes to All, Teri

Hi Teri.

It's nice to make your acquaintance. You really DO live in a troublesome area for allergies etc.
Here in the mid-west, we are by the river and surrounded by nature. There are any number of prompters
to really trouble the lungs.

Our most volatile time is when crops have been up awhile & the humidity rises. I can't even go out when the
air is that thick. I wish you all the best there.

And happy to have someone to "lead" us here. It's not an easy task sometimes.
Have a great week ahead!

sincerely,
linc

Hi Teri.

I'm from Iowa. Not too far away, eh?
I love Corrie Ten Boom. Such wonderful wisdom, at such great a cost.
Thanx for the addition.

Well... let's see... I do have Cough Variant Asthma. very difficult to dx. It was an adult onset (after 40 - type of thing). My only real symptoms are SOB and terrible coughing fits.
I have a deep (almost like a whooping cough type) of cough that never goes completely away. It's better controlled some now, by Singulair. And I use Albuterol Inhalers if nec. (won't leave home
w/out one!! :lol )
A year ago last July, I had a choking incident that threw me into an all-out Asthma attack!! I didn't think I would live through it, it was the scariest thing I'd ever been through & I hope I never go through
it again!!!

I also have had CFIDS & FMS for 27 years.
In the last couple of years I found that I also have CMPD (myofascial pain disorder). I have Arthritis and herniated discs as well. So... that's quite enough, I refuse to carry one more "label" illness from this point on!! Ha! (not that I can have anything to do with it... but I can try). I do suffer allergies as well.


So sorry about your COPD... it, in and of itself, is just an awful thing to deal with, let alone with the allergy/asthma threat. I wish you the best.
Always,
lin

sure Teri.

C-hronic F-atigue I-mmune D-ysfunction S-yndrome
FMS - Fibromyalgia Syndrome
C-hronic M-yofascial P-ain D-isorder
C-cough V-ariant A-sthma

I've never taken Advair & probably won't as long I'm getting by with the Singulair & Albuterol.
Steroids are scary beyond belief to me, although I know quite necessary sometimes.

Actually, I'm pill-aphobic somewhat. With some other health conditions that I don't care to go
into, I have to be so careful with everything I put in my mouth!!
I react adversely to so many things it's just incredible.

For years I was unable to even take an antibiotic until just this last year. It seems that many CFS people, especially
those of the viral-subset of patients, develope terrible allergic reactions to all manner of things... pharmaceutics, other meds,
foods, etc...
I happen to be one of them.
Plus, if the side-effects cause a problem (which they so often do...) I have to shift gears.

I have had so many Drs. through the years want me to take this or that, and or my dear hubby trying to get me to take
various herbs/etc **...through the years,
but have had to do so with a certain amount of fear & trepidation, or ... a very cautious
approach, at best.

*(My hubby has studied herbs/vits/and alternative treatments all of our married life & pretty much managed to keep us away from conventional medicine
outside of the normal & routine stuff, or some medical emergency, for the most part,)

If I find things that work and do not give me fits, I generally stay on them.

Anyway... probably far more than you wanted to know here...
:smile:

Hi Teri. I'm registered and on board and will be chiming in when appropriate-after I get back from Florida.

Looks like there are a good number of health issues being discussed.

Rudy

linc, I completely understand~the wind is blowing everything that's available around right now and I continue to have chest tightness with a cough, along with SOB as well. My eyes are trying to get into the picture, too and have been really irritated the past week or two. I'm still taking my Combivent and Advair inhalors.

I sure hope you you're feeling better soon yeah Have a wonderful day!

Hugs, Teri

Hi Teri & everyone!

I haven't forgotten you!! Just still enjoying the "good health days" and weather!! It's such a rare thing, this... feeing almost normal,
that I intend to enjoy & pack as many of these days of reprieve into life as is humanly possible. This is why I've not been online much lately.

Been out putzing in the yard and going shopping et al. It's just been such a joy. My illnesses are pretty relentless and so when or if I
am ever blessed enough to have a remission in them, I just go as crazy as I can go! ha,haha!

Hoping that you're doing alirght and life is treating you well at the moment.
I've had a bit of inflammation in the ears/throat... but nothing significant. Not enough to affect me much. It's like living in a
dream, to be feeling no really bad symptoms. I know it won't last, after living w/these things for 27 years... it finally sinks in that all
these things are short-lived, but I'll try really hard when the other shoe drops & I can't lift my head off the pillow, to remember that days
like this really DO exist.

You all take care & just email me if you need me... Ha,ha,ha,ha!!

It's sort of gray day so far here and I'm wondering if we'll get more rain today? Sometimes that sort of helps clear the air for some of the allergies!

Teri

Hi Teri, I think that we are pretty much in the same "allergy zone" where we live. What kind of allergies are active right now? My hubby and son were sneezing like crazy yesterday.

I'm doing well. I wish I could say the same for my hubby and son. Their allergies to just making them miserable. I filled my son's flonase today and he seems to be doing much better. How are things with you? I hope all is well.

Just came back from Chicago and I am so miserable, the dry windy air made my nose hurt so bad... I am so happy to be home and never thought that I would miss the warmth and humidity here