Hi everyone! I was just wondering if anyone has any tips on moving with asthma? We are moving this weekened into our first house and my son is asthmatic. I plan to have the carpets proffessionaly...
I took my son to the doc on Monday and he wasnt put on pred this time thank goodness! He was put on an antibiotic for sinus infection. The doc said post nasal drip was dripping down and irritating...
Hi Carla thanks for the reply. No my son isnt big or over weight he is quite thin 76 pounds. I have to take him to the doc tomorrow as he has caught somthing that has started to flare up his asthma....
HI CARLA, Yeah, he gets put on pred when he has to be which is about 3-4 times a year. The dose is usually 60mg a day and I was wondering if anyone knows if that can cause long term probs in a ten...
Hi everyone!. I usually post on the fibro board but my 10 year old son has asthma and I was wondering about oral steroids. When he gets a bad cold or infection he usually ends up on oral steroids....
Hi everyone I just need to vent a bit. My anxiety is in full force. I am once again battling SEVERE health anxiety, and that awful feeling of impending doom. I have a morbid fear of having lupus,...
I just wanted you to know that alot of us here know exactly what you're going thru. I too suffer terrible health anxiety. At times it even has controlled my entire life. I suffered nightmares about...
I usually post in the fibro forum but seen your post and had to reply. I know what its like to have a young child with asthma only brought on by illness. My son developed asthma just before his 5th...
Thanks everyone for the kind words and support!!!...It truely means a great deal to me!....My docs office called today to calm yet another one of my fears, still trying to believe that what the doc...
Yep, noises can send me into a major fit!...Especially when they are continious. The TV being on too long will simply drive me mad. I have a 9 year old son and the cartoons and video games are on...
Hi everyone...its me again ranting and being paranoid once again /community/emoticons/sad.gif I just need to vent so please bare with me. As the topic indicated, my health anxiety has returned once...
Hi everyone /community/emoticons/tongue.gif How are you all doing? I have a question about ativan. I take it as needed for high anxiety days but was wondering if ativan, like xanax, can be dissolved...
I too can relate to this all to well. With me however, the disease I have feared for the past 3 years is lupus.It consumes my every waking hour and I actually have nightmares about it most nights! I...
hunniebee I just wanted you to know that you're not alone with this. I am afraid I have been driving myself COMPLETELY crazy by symptom surfing, especially lately..in fact the last time I did this...
Hi...I usually post in the fibro forum but this topic caught my eye....I just wanted to say that my son was DX'd with migraines at the age of 2!...It was very scary...migraines run in my family,...
Hi all...I was wondering if anyone here gets very anxious about their weight?...I have been causing myself serious anxiety over this...I am terrified that I have gained weight or I will gain weight....
I am in Wyoming Michigan /community/emoticons/tongue.gif ...
Oh yeah...I have the sense of doom feeling almost everyday...it is terrible! I wish I knew a good way to ease it up a bit too...Sorry I am not much help...but you're definitaly not alone! Shelly...
I have been taking ativan on and off for about 15 years....It helps me a great deal!...But my body does get use to it fairly quickly...In those cases I just lay off of it fow a couple weeks, and...
Oh yeah!!!. I am petrified of those eight legged things!!! We have been having an awful time with the biggest ones here too!!!...I call my husband to kill them because I cant even go near them...And...
My biggest triggers are Worrying about my sons asthma...CONTINUALLY during cold and flu season...and he has a nasty cold now...I am a wreck now /community/emoticons/sad.gif Driving My own...
LOL...I love this thread!!! Ok...here goes... I love to watch reruns of Murder She Wrote I love to color I wish my inlaws would be abducted by aliens I too think Ricardo Montolban is sexy!! I think...
Hmmm...Sounds alot like lexapro withdrawel to me!!....I had the same experience as you when I quit taking it for a few days!! Waves of dizziness, and I stumbled around the house! It scared the...
I am currently taking 20 mg of lexapro a day. It has made the world of defference for me!! Some people dont have the same response as I did to it but then again so many do...lol...Hopw it works for...
Let me see...I believed I had.... Lupus Brain tumor colon cancer and did I mention lupus...I am still battling this belief... Shelly...
Most definatly YES!!!...I have terrible health anxiety and it for me anyway is the worst form of the anxiety I currently suffer from...I am always telling my doc that I am a hypochondriac, and she...
Hi there...I usually post on the fibro board but stop i here now and then because my son has asthma. He NEVER gets an astma flare unless he has a nasty cold etc. Unfortunaly, not much can be done...
Hi, I have never posted on this board before...I am usually found on the Fibro and anxiety boards. I was DX'd with IBS almost 15 years ago....but luckily my symptoms were very mild to nonexistant til...
Thanks for the response Hippimom! There is so much info on the internet. Some is reliable and some not so good. I was curious because I think there seems to be some important differences between the...
Hi all! I usually post in the fibro and anxiety forums but I have been curious about something for a long time. What is the difference between CFS and fibro? So many web sites seem to say they are...
I think if may be possible I guess? I donnot have asthma but my 8 year old son does. I think if you are really questioning your DX you should tell your doctor about your concerns and see what she/he...
Hi everyone! I do not have asthma but my 8 year old son does. I have been wondering about this for a long time and seems like I found a good place for input /community/emoticons/tongue.gif My son was...
Hi everyone! I have never posted on this board before, as I am usually on the fibro and anxiety boards. I don't have asthma but my son does. He was placed on singulair to help control his asthma a...
Hi all, I have posted here a few times before, and usually about the same thing /community/emoticons/eyes.gif Does anyone here have SEVERE health anxiety? I wake up worried about my health and go to...
I am not sure that I can help much with this one. I dont so much worry about the big questions like you, but I do worry ALOT about dying. I was recently DX'd with fibro, and worry way too much about...
Hi there, I usually post on the anxiety and fibro boards but also suffer from depression and thought I would pop in here. Anyway, I was started on Lexapro about 8 months ago, mainly for severe...