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Asthma as kid turn to copd?

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Always had asthma and always struggled doing highly physical things and silly enough started carpentry when I left school wore a mask for very dusty situations but since I was 15 been under a specialist who could never understand my asthma as my symptoms would start as soon as i did sport but was never bought on by dust or anything and ventolin would never really help, my montelukast and seretide works a treat tho and cig smoke is an issue don’t have to breathe a lot in to feel a bit breathless but in December my airways tightened up one day I was wheezy had a tight chest and can’t keep the air in my lungs my oxygen levels are like 96 to 98 at rest and it’s been like this since that day in December and I’m convinced something else has happened to my lungs maybe due to an exposure of some sort but I don’t know if it’s permanent cause it’s not improving and I’m tired all the time now and it feels like I’m going to be like this for the rest of my life haven’t worked since mid jan, have ct and other tests in the pipeline with hospital but I just wanna getnsome other opinions from others who also suffer with breathing difficulty.

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Unfortunately we some times have a flair-up that kicks us off the plateau we've been on.

4 yrs. ago I went for a month of being in ER every week because I couldn't breathe, they'd do breathing treatments, and send me home with predisone and antibiotics, 4th time I stayed in hosp.. for 4 days, when I saw lung dr. for 1st time he explained that we plateau for awhile, symptoms, breathing stays the same then something, infection or flair-up cause us to fall off, when and if we recover that's our new plateau, if we push a little to keep moving we can get back a little but not all that we lost.

This may be what's happened with you, but make sure they check your heart, too, COPD can cause heart problems, and lower oxygen can be sign of heart disease too

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So it might be my lung function deteriorating? With progression of whatever is going on with my lungs?

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Yes, but talk to your dr.

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Ah, well that’s not good I’m only 19, be brown bread well soon then

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