I felt so bad when I had this test I got yelled at because he had no results after twenty minutes
but I couldn't breath the way he wanted me too in a glass box with a peg on my nose and air cut off may be I am strange but please I breath the way he wanted as I was the worst I had ever been
I have also experienced getting yelled at by the people carrying out the lung function tests and heard the same from other people too. They told me to take a really deep breath and then blow when they said but they said blow before I had finished breathing in. Got it right eventually tho.
Why don't they check o2 saturation levels at the same time and in the same department, surely that is also a lung function. I have been waiting since April for a hospital appointment for oxygen assessment and I thought my appointment in July was it but no, only the lung function tests and then when I asked what my FEV1 was as a percentage they said only a doctor can tell you that.
FEV1% is the only result that I can make sense of and compare to previous test 7 years ago.
Since my doctor (GP) told me 3 years ago and in April that I was looking blue in the face around my mouth should it really take so long for o2 assessment.
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