Hey! I just talked with a nurse who said to use my inhalers the right way and I could hear her rolling her eyes over the phone! I admit I haven’t been using them 100% the right dose every day. Just my preventative inhaler symbacort once sometimes twice a day like I’m supposed to. I use it before I brush my teeth because you can get fungal infections if you don’t rinse your mouth out after. Right now I think my rescue inhaler Albuterol is on my coffee table at home. Thought it was in my purse! I did find the symbacort in my purse but that’s not a rescue inhaler. Albuterol every 4-6 hours and symbacort two puffs twice a day. When I first called she mentioned this virus that’s going around Ann Arbor like crazy. I hope I don’t get it - I hear it’s constant coughing! I just forget to use the symbacort what with all the pills I take! I don’t think I can take steroids -because of gabapentin I think -which I had to do once this past spring when my inhaled medications weren’t helping at all. Btw chest pain IS a symptom of asthma! And you can die from asthma? Didn’t know that till I was googling asthma symptoms.

As for the partial collapsed lung - the alveoli -and the lower lobe scaring this nurse didn't seem to care. That's GOT to impair one's breathing don't you think?? I guess only my primary doctor can answer that. It wasn't there last time they took X-rays in the Spring!

I'll go look for a pulse oxymeter!