Hi Anna, I was in the doctor's office about Osteoporosis. I just asked if vaping could have any effect on Osteoporosis. She said they don't know.Smoking masks thyroid issues in some, I had to up my thyroid med when I quit smoking, was unable to comprehend why I was glued to the couch for a while there. That's not an unreasonable test at all, though you've been quit for a while, so IDK.
Did the doc actually test anything at all, or just tell you vaping sucked and toss you out of the office? Cuz mine woulda marched me over for a chest X-ray and probably some other testing. You may well be missing what the problem actually is, if your doctor only bothered to spend the time *you* were paying for telling you that it was vaping and how terrible it is. What if you have developed pneumonia/lung cancer/other terrible things from vaping that she said were just NEW DATA? You'd think she'd be doing some checking, I'd think, if it's THAT bad.
I will tell you NONE of my docs would have let me leave without follow up. They are highly alert to the state of my lungs due to my *smoking* habits, not vaping habits.
Anna
This was a resident I was talking to, before my doctor came in. They go through different rotations, so I am guessing it was when she was doing a cardiac or pulmonary rotation. A doctor, or doctors told her that their patients that vape have issues as serious as their patients that smoke do. She didn't mention that all the years of smoking before they vaped could have had something to do with their problems, so who knows.
Sandy