Appointment, COPD/Asthma

[CathyB]

Hope all goes well for you Northener 🙂

 

[SB2015]

I hope it goes well tomorrow.
It does sound as if it could be a temporary thing.

I also have asthma, which is induced by exercise, and by Lynx sprays.
Horrid stuff

Let us know how you get on.

 

[Matt Cycle]

Are you getting this all the time Northie? If so it can't be exercise induced. Hope you get it sorted. 🙂

 

[Lisa66]

Could be, after breathing in all that weak Southern air for the past 22 years, although it started long before I got here - maybe I got out just in time? 😱 🙂

Weak southern air?! Pah!

Seriously though, hopefully it's just all the upheaval of your move, it was a biggy, certainly a lot of stress involved there. I've had something similar from time to time. It's actually what makes me realise I have need to slow down or have been worried about something. Hope the appointment goes well. 🙂

 

[Northerner]

Are you getting this all the time Northie? If so it can't be exercise induced. Hope you get it sorted. 🙂

No, most of the time I forget about it. It has got better over the past 2-3 weeks, but still bad after running.

 

[Northerner]

The appointment went well. Nurse checked my chest and it was clear, asked me lots of questions about the symptoms, when they occur etc., plus a few questions about my smoking history. She also gave me a 'peak flow' test. I've got to have another appointment next month for a spirometry test and also go to the hospital to get a chest x-ray done. She also gave me a prescription for an inhaler to see if it helps - hoping it will 🙂

I also got a few questions about my diabetes - had to laugh when she noted that my last HbA1c, from January, was 'too low' at 5.3% (34 mmol/mol). I then explained to her about how often this crops up on the forum, and how having a few mild hypos does not presage imminent coma and death 🙄 I think she accepted what I was saying! 🙂 I am getting a referral to the hospital clinic for my diabetes, which is good. They also have a walk-in blood clinic at the surgery, so I had my bloods taken for everything, including some tests I don't believe I've had before, such as thyroid function.

A good appointment 🙂

 

[Ljc]

Sounds like it was a good appointment and their covering all bases.

 

[grovesy]

The appointment went well. Nurse checked my chest and it was clear, asked me lots of questions about the symptoms, when they occur etc., plus a few questions about my smoking history. She also gave me a 'peak flow' test. I've got to have another appointment next month for a spirometry test and also go to the hospital to get a chest x-ray done. She also gave me a prescription for an inhaler to see if it helps - hoping it will 🙂

I also got a few questions about my diabetes - had to laugh when she noted that my last HbA1c, from January, was 'too low' at 5.3% (34 mmol/mol). I then explained to her about how often this crops up on the forum, and how having a few mild hypos does not presage imminent coma and death 🙄 I think she accepted what I was saying! 🙂 I am getting a referral to the hospital clinic for my diabetes, which is good. They also have a walk-in blood clinic at the surgery, so I had my bloods taken for everything, including some tests I don't believe I've had before, such as thyroid function.

A good appointment 🙂

Glad you had a good appointment.

 

[Lisa66]

Sounds good. Hopefully you've got a good surgery there. 🙂

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Glad the appointment went well Northie.

LOL at the ‘too low A1c’ thing. Natural I suppose, given the average population they will have seen - but they clearly don’t know what your BGs are like in detail like you do 🙂

 

[Flower]

That sounds like a comprehensive going over Northerner. Glad they are looking after you and your Type Weird well up there 😉🙂

 

[Northerner]

Thanks everyone 🙂 I've just got back from having my chest x-ray at the hospital 🙂 Walked there and back - I can walk 95% of the way there away from busy roads, on country lanes and across The Stray (a big park), about two and a bit miles/40 minutes 🙂 Only had to wait 15 mins for the x-ray - hoping the diabetes clinic and eye department are similarly efficient when my appointments come around! 🙂

I realised when I was in radiology that that's the first x-ray I've had done since I broke my femur in 2004! Well, apart from dental x-rays, that is.

 

[Northerner]

Went for a run this morning, fine on run, coughing like a 100-a-day man when I stopped 😱 Went to pharmacy and picked up the inhaler. Decided to try it out, so took a puff then half an hour later went eyeballs-out on the exercise bike for 5 minutes - got me panting like a spaniel in a sauna, but no coughing! 😱 Result! 🙂

 

[mikeyB]

You can’t diagnose COPD from a Peak Flow reading. Or, I indeed, an X-ray, if the condition isn’t well established. You need a FEV test (forced expiratory volume).

Mind you, Northie, I don’t think you’ve got COPD, so chasing that particular diagnosis is futile.

 

[mikeyB]

I should add, that if the inhaler prevents symptoms when exercising, then exercise induced asthma looks like a good working diagnosis.

 

[Bloden]

Glad to hear the inhaler worked, Northerner, and you’ve had a full MOT.😛

(I’m moving up North, LOL. I’ve been waiting since Feb for my first UK endo appointment...)

 

[Northerner]

You can’t diagnose COPD from a Peak Flow reading. Or, I indeed, an X-ray, if the condition isn’t well established. You need a FEV test (forced expiratory volume).

Mind you, Northie, I don’t think you’ve got COPD, so chasing that particular diagnosis is futile.

Is that the same as a spirometry test? I'm having that done next month - apparently it's a 30-40 minute appointment and that was the earliest they could get one that long.

 

[Kathy1960]

The appointment went well. Nurse checked my chest and it was clear, asked me lots of questions about the symptoms, when they occur etc., plus a few questions about my smoking history. She also gave me a 'peak flow' test. I've got to have another appointment next month for a spirometry test and also go to the hospital to get a chest x-ray done. She also gave me a prescription for an inhaler to see if it helps - hoping it will 🙂

I also got a few questions about my diabetes - had to laugh when she noted that my last HbA1c, from January, was 'too low' at 5.3% (34 mmol/mol). I then explained to her about how often this crops up on the forum, and how having a few mild hypos does not presage imminent coma and death 🙄 I think she accepted what I was saying! 🙂 I am getting a referral to the hospital clinic for my diabetes, which is good. They also have a walk-in blood clinic at the surgery, so I had my bloods taken for everything, including some tests I don't believe I've had before, such as thyroid function.

A good appointment 🙂

Which surgery are you going to Alan? Church Avenue by any chance? That's where I go. Glad you are getting everything sorted here. Hopefully we can meet up before too long.

 

[Northerner]

Which surgery are you going to Alan? Church Avenue by any chance? That's where I go. Glad you are getting everything sorted here. Hopefully we can meet up before too long.

I'll send you a Private Message Kathy 🙂

 

[mikeyB]

Is that the same as a spirometry test? I'm having that done next month - apparently it's a 30-40 minute appointment and that was the earliest they could get one that long.

Yes. Although it seems a bit unnecessary, it will reassure you that your lungs are normal, if a little sensitive. We know that’s true, because a 5k run was just a warm up a year ago, and you haven’t been down a coal mine and smoking 40 a day since.