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Q: Help - Asthma/bronchitis, Menstration & Chronic Colds
asked by: JayYarb on January 11th, 2007
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This is all true. Please, someone help us.

My fiance (female, 23 years old) has chronic asthma & bronchitis. She lives in the van nuys, california area (bad air). She has sleep apnea but cannot use a bipap machine without getting very sick the following day. Therefore, she doesn't usually get proper amounts of oxygen into her blood. Her immune system has been comprimised by stress and diabetes. She has had some cancer that was removed (uterus and close to her heart, not in or on). About 1 1/2 years ago she had a benign tumor removed from inside the front of her skull. She was also severly abused by her father from the age of 3 to 17 and now has chronic nightmares everynight.

Last month when she got her period she became sick with a terrible cough, sore throat and ended up at the hospital where they gave her antibiotics. Yesterday she started her period and once again these symptoms are back and she feels miserable with a pounding headache (from all the couphing), running nose, watering eyes.

I am beginning to think these symptoms are lung related (bronchitis). Her asthma has not been properly treated by a specialist and she can't even see one for at least 6 weeks. Can anyone offer any advice or share thoughts?

Thank you in advance.
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dcount11
replied on October 1st, 2009
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I am in the same boat. Unfortunately I can't find a lot of info for this. Which is how I stumbled upon this post. I'm looking for help to. My theory is the environment is detrimental to the public. The environment is not to blame though, it is the human population who is to blame. Unfortunately it is taking us longer than it should to fix the air quality problem that afflicts us. We all know breathing is unhealthy these days, but we are limited in the choices we have to make when wanting to breath clean air. So which apparatus do you choose; the air or the oxygen tank? A sure fire answer would be the way to go, but as we all know, nothing is cut and dry. Can anyone of the medical profession enlighten us? I've been wondering for 2 years why this is happening to me:-)
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