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February 23, 2010
Dealing with Asthma Part 2
After seeing an Allergist, Jacquie is diagnosed with a common lung condition known as Asthma. She discusses the medication and treatments that helped her cope with her debilitating lung condition and get her life back.
Transcript for Dealing with Asthma Part 2
They sent me to an allergist and the allergist did a couple of tests, asked me what my symptoms are.
My name is Jacquie, and I'm from Mountainside, New Jersey, and I've been suffering from asthma for about 2 and a half years now.
He diagnosed me with asthma, almost immediately. He gave me Symbicort, and he said let's try this, and I did. I tried it twice a day, two puffs, twice a day in the morning and at night, and it was almost immediate. About within three days I could breathe, I slept through the night, I had my life back.
I had no idea that asthma was coughing. I thought asthma was the inability to breathe and to choke. So I - didn't even occur to me that all this coughing was asthma related.
So I would say, anybody that is just feeling ill like that, and is coughing constantly, don't stop. When the doctor tells you don't worry, it's nothing, if you have something that's going on that long; it took eight months. I was in misery for eight months before I was diagnosed with asthma; the most obvious thing it could have been since it's hereditary. And nobody found it. So just keep going to a specialist until you find out what's wrong with you.
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