Saw my primary doctor today. 1. The scaring and collapsed lung have been there since May taken at my regular hospital , University of Michigan. No change between then and now so I guess that's good?? 2. The chest pain is my rib muscles. I must've lifted something heavy recently or slept funny. 3. The can't catch a breath is my asthma. She prescribed prednisone for 3 days and told me to get a spacer. You put the inhaler in one end of the tube and the other end with your lips around it. Then use the inhaler as usual. This aerosolizes the medicine so it can go deep into your lungs instead of onto your tongue. 4. She prescribed 3 days of steroids to get rid of this asthma attack I've had for about a week. She also mentioned my cough in her after visit notes.

So that is that. I knew my primary doctor could solve this! But how was I to know my chest pain was my ribs? For a second she thought I might have shingles as she said she had another patient with chest pain and a rash. I have no rash so no shingles thank god!

My mother was nasty to me when I told her all this. Was I wrong to go to the ER with chest pain and shortness of breath??? With those being pulmonary embolism symptoms and having a history of them (twice) I don't think so! They’re also heart attack symptoms! Hence everything they did in the ER.