Good News For Asthma Sufferers
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Thank you for posting this! I have had severe asthma most of my life and recently they have started calling it 'COPD" making me think possibly not something reversible any longer. Well, 3 weeks after a real scare with a long hospital stay, no smokes and decent hardware, I am better than I have been in months! Once I am off steroid therapy, I will post an update. Results are amazing me now but will hold off until I know this will hold true once off the meds for this exacerbation.
Yes, please keep us posted. Will be quite interesting if you actually feel better with vaping, although not totally surprising.
Steroids........suck......but sometimes we just need them....
vaping aggravates my asthma much much more than smoking ever did. While I smoked my asthma would only flare up when I got sick which was 2-3 times a year. This is one area vaping has helped, I have only been sick once in about 3 years of vaping and it was shortly after I quit smoking. Perfumes have always been a trigger for me so it is no surprise the flavorings also trigger it. Unflavored doesn't work for me so I had to change the way I vape. I only inhale enough so it hits the back of my throat and that seems to keep my asthma from flaring up.
I agree with this I was able to get off all corticosteroids and my inhaler and have been free of them for quite some time.
I am still tapering down on prednisone. Last attack so bad, 7 days in the hospital and now on a 6 week steroid taper. I also feel tightness vaping but symptoms nothing like smoking! I try to inhale as little as possible but even though I do some, I notice huge improvement!. No longer do I use an inhaler during the night, run for the nebulizer in the morning or really feel much need for it during the day but I am suppose to use at least 3X a day so I try to remember. I have been smoke-free since my ambulance ride and looking back over how I could have been so stupid to smoke all those years. I know not vaping would be best but I also know I always went back to smoking!. Steroids were getting to be a frequent thing, they also kept me feeling good enough to continue my dumb habit.
I did quit 25 years ago (long hospital stay), a 3X increase in peak flow in just 10 days that the Dr. said I had to be allergic to cig smoke to have that much improvement in that short time. I stayed smoke free for 2 weeks. Part of me thought "I can quit someday, I'm not doing any damage if it clears up when I stop". I quit another time on Chantix , went back as soon as it ran out , also had other problems taking that drug and won't again. Frequent asthma attacks, hospital with every cold turning into pneumonia and/or pleurisy and I kept smoking. The past 3 years, seeing my O2 sats dropping further every Dr visit, not having any energy, it started to sink in, someone with asthma can also get irreversible COPD. I was at that point that I could be tethered to oxygen 24/7 , I am determined to never smoke another cigarette thanks to vaping. I got so grumpy trying every other way to quit, I felt like I didn't care if it killed me and probably those around me felt the same way!
I have no idea how much more I will improve or if current improvements will hold when the steroids are done but I am hopeful. I plan to DIY and cut nicotine down as soon as I can handle a lower level as it is a constrictor and hope to better adjust flavors, PG/VG ratios to improve tightness if possible... or learn to not inhale better!
I did quit 25 years ago (long hospital stay), a 3X increase in peak flow in just 10 days that the Dr. said I had to be allergic to cig smoke to have that much improvement in that short time. I stayed smoke free for 2 weeks. Part of me thought "I can quit someday, I'm not doing any damage if it clears up when I stop". I quit another time on Chantix , went back as soon as it ran out , also had other problems taking that drug and won't again. Frequent asthma attacks, hospital with every cold turning into pneumonia and/or pleurisy and I kept smoking. The past 3 years, seeing my O2 sats dropping further every Dr visit, not having any energy, it started to sink in, someone with asthma can also get irreversible COPD. I was at that point that I could be tethered to oxygen 24/7 , I am determined to never smoke another cigarette thanks to vaping. I got so grumpy trying every other way to quit, I felt like I didn't care if it killed me and probably those around me felt the same way!
I have no idea how much more I will improve or if current improvements will hold when the steroids are done but I am hopeful. I plan to DIY and cut nicotine down as soon as I can handle a lower level as it is a constrictor and hope to better adjust flavors, PG/VG ratios to improve tightness if possible... or learn to not inhale better!
Wow, you've been through a LOT!!!!! I certainly hope you get straightened around soon. I know steroids, too. I hope they have you on a slow taper. I ended up using Ativan at the end of my taper to help the steroid jitters and, for me, almost psychosis!!!
Glad you are doing better. Please continue to keep us posted.
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