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- From: greg@antizen.EBay.Sun.COM
- Newsgroups: misc.health.alternative
- Subject: Asthma, adult onset
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 00:49:00 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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- Strange timing that a newsgroup like this would spring up....
-
- I've been working with a few different alternative health professionals
- since 2 years ago when my asthma made a surprise appearance for the
- first time since childhood. At first I hoped it would go away with the
- allergy season, but after two asthma attacks, one which landed me in
- San Jose Emergency room for the night and kept me on prednisone for 2 weeks,
- I realized that I had the dreaded 'adult-onset' asthma. This, for anyone
- not in the current informational flow about asthma, statistically is
- very likely to stay with you for the rest of your life. Childhood asthma
- often disappears.
-
- I've been working with an alternative MD (nutrition and suppliments) as well
- as an OMD (accupuncture and herbs) for about 1 and 1/2 years now. My asthma
- has been at a manageble level for the last year and I have been off all systemic
- medications for that long. I do abuse my Albuterol inhaler quite a lot however.
-
- My latest journey has been with a Naturopathic Doctor, not recognized as an
- MD in California. We have been working with homeopathy for the last two
- months, using the Nux Vomica remedy.
-
- Up to about 5 days ago we (myself and Dr. Rapp) were considering abandoning
- the first remedy and trying another due to lack of response. However Saturday,
- I used my inhaler 1 time in the morning (1 puff is half a dose) and another
- single puff in the evening.
-
- Yesterday I didn't use it until 3 hours after waking (I ALWAYS use it about 5 to
- 10 minutes after waking) and then only because I excercised at the gym. Today,
- again I've only had one puff just before lunch. This all followed a severe
- respiratory infection I've been fighting the last 2 weeks. Not that the infection
- is clearing, my asthma appears to be lifting, for the first time in 2 years.
-
- All of this is during the winter months that usually sends me into the ER
- with an attack. Cold weather is bad news for me.
-
- In short, it appears that I may be able to be asthma free, as opposed to being
- stuck with it for the rest of my life. Considering that Western medicine claims
- that asthma is incurable and can only be managed, I pretty happy with the
- results of the last 3 days.
-
- In 2 years of this asthma, the only time I've used my inhaler so little was when
- I was taking prednisone.
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- Greg
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