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Sep 29, 2009 in the Asthma and Allergy Expert Forum
I am so sorry that you have been left with “extreme pain upper back”, following removal of a spinal cord tumor. Such pain, in addition to significantly affecting one’s quality of life, can indeed hinder respiration and, specifically, impair your ability to take a deep breath, or feel short of breath. That findings suggestive of emphysema with apical scarrin...
Unexplained Decline in Lung Capacity and V02Max Despite Exercise
Sep 28, 2009 in the Asthma and Allergy Expert Forum
The following is based upon the assumption that there is a physiologic cause for your shortness of breath (dyspnea). The caveat is to recognize that this symptom can be on an emotional basis such as can be seen with acute and chronic anxiety, with or without Panic Disorder. In this realm is another consideration, a functional disorder called Vocal Cord Dysf...
Candida in sinuses?
Sep 21, 2009 in the Respiratory Disorders Expert Forum
Candida (the fungus that causes thrush), along with about 40 other different fungi, can cause fungal sinusitis, both infectious and (less frequently in persons with a normal immune system) allergic fungal sinusitis. So the answer to your question is yes, Candida, can cause sinus disease but such sinusitis is seldom associated with the oral thrush that common...
Breathing issues
Sep 21, 2009 in the Respiratory Disorders Expert Forum
It is understandable that diseases of the lungs would be the first consideration, as the cause of shortness of breath in a seemingly healthy 35 year old man, the most common of these being asthma or, more specifically, Exercise Induced Asthma (EIA), and that may prove to be the case. “Normal pulmonary function tests” do not rule out this diagnosis. Pulmonar...
Asthma or COPD
Sep 17, 2009 in the Respiratory Disorders Expert Forum
Asthma is inherently a chronic disease and its natural course is to vary in severity, over time, over weeks, months, years or even decades. Many times an external cause (chronic infection, allergens or irritants) can be identified as the cause of the worsening but not infrequently no specific cause is found, and the worsening is attributable to the natural h...
Asbestos exposure outdoors - worried
Sep 11, 2009 in the Respiratory Disorders Expert Forum
It is not possible, given the circumstances of your exposure, to provide a quantitative estimate of your exposure but, unless you were tearing and ripping in a fashion to fill the air with visible fibers, it is unlikely that you have or will experience any adverse effects from that exposure. In addition, quantification of the exposure would not provide the m...
Interpreting New PFT results
Sep 10, 2009 in the Respiratory Disorders Expert Forum
Greetings, I am confused by the data you have sent. In your E-mail of August 31, you referred to the PFT data as “Last week I had a spirometry test and obtained a copy of results.” Here it is: August 31, 2009 My FVC was 73%....2.52 FEV1 58% 1.66 FEF 25%/75% was 32% 1.04 FIVC 2.94 85% PEF 4.37 69% FEV3 2.33 73% ...
lesion on the lung
Sep 03, 2009 in the Respiratory Disorders Expert Forum
Let me, first, address your question and then follow that with information from Dr. Robert Mason’s Textbook of Pulmonary Disease. Information that you can read and discuss with your pulmonary specialist, providing a basis for him/her to elaborate on the text. “Given that the lesion increased they ordered another CT. It will be done in the next 10 days. I ...
Advair Side Effects
Sep 03, 2009 in the Respiratory Disorders Expert Forum
I assume that, with the diagnosis of ADD, your son is receiving Aderall, Ritalin, or a similar drug. Many of the symptoms he “exhibits” may be attributable to the adverse side effects of these drugs, especially the “low appetite” and “lack of weight gain”. There are, however, other causes of failure to gain weight, some serious and many treatable and, if no...
Asthma and now maybe restrictive disease too?
Sep 01, 2009 in the Respiratory Disorders Expert Forum
First the PFT’s. The FEV1 is definitely reduced but there is an increase of approximately 20% in the post-med FEV1. This, with the baseline reduction in FEV1 to 1.66 L. (58%) indicates significant, reversible obstruction to airflow, consistent with the diagnosis of asthma. The FVC, while reduced is 80% of predicted, post-med, a borderline low predicted val...