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RL Peeves
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Some jackass decided to give me a respiratory virus as my Christmas present this year.
It was a thoughtful followup to getting diagnosed with asthma this summer.
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RL self peeve —
I have all the wrapping paper and the gifts. I have had it for at least a week. I have not wrapped anything. I know, first world problem, but ADHD problem too. I WANT to, I just keep getting distracted because I really don’t WANT to.
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Don’t worry!!! Executive brain function will kick back in once you get to critical levels of procrastination and it moves from distantly important to Important Right Now. You might only have five minutes to get it done when that happens, but…
(You have my sympathy.)
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@Aria Idk if anyone has told you this, but it’s helpful to think about an asthma attack as a problem breathing out, not a problem breathing in. So if you’re having an attack, while you’re getting your rescue, focus on pushing air out.
Also be extra sure to follow doctors orders, take your peak flows, all of that. Asthma is way more insidious for adults.
Understandable, have a nice day.
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@Aria Idk if anyone has told you this, but it’s helpful to think about an asthma attack as a problem breathing out, not a problem breathing in. So if you’re having an attack, while you’re getting your rescue, focus on pushing air out.
Also be extra sure to follow doctors orders, take your peak flows, all of that. Asthma is way more insidious for adults.
That was not advice I was given, nor a peak flow monitor! Definitely something to ask my doctor about.
He was so excited when I saw him two weeks ago, because I hadn’t used my rescue inhaler in over two months. I usually have easier time breathing in winter, unlike most patients.
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My house has two garages. My landlord has walled one off and uses it for storage. I think containers of chemicals–probably paint thinner–have exploded in the cold snap, because my house is filled with fumes. I’m on hold waiting to talk to someone about it but I may have to abandon the house and charge them for a hotel stay.
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Driving up to my parents for the first Christmas with them since husband and I were married (12 years), and super excited. About 40 minutes into the drive I started to have a runny nose. Whatever, stop, get some tissues, continue!
However it has gotten progressively worse since. I’ve gone through two boxes of tissues in two days. Sneezing HURTS, and after last night of using Nyquil to sleep the junk has settled into my breathing area and I’m weezing now.
This is not how I imagined spending Christmas
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@Aria Oh yeah ask for a peak flow! Now, grain of salt, I’m not a doctor, etc etc, but I’ve been a lifelong asthmatic. This is what I’ve been told over the years, it’s something that might be good to bring up with your doctor.
I was told, while in the ICU from an attack, by my doc that was in charge of my care, that her BFF had just died from asthma. Her BFF was a fellow doctor with mild adult asthma. We tend to push though more and not take it seriously enough and can get into trouble. That really stuck with me. I don’t say this to scare you, just to make sure you’re taking care of yourself and don’t lapse into complacency. My issue is capitalism forced me to work while sick, with other people who were sick, and who nearly killed me. (Literally, I coded)
Another grain of salt advice to tuck into the back of your mind in case of emergencies, IV Magnesium can literally save your life in an ER/Ambulance asthma attack situation. A very knowledgeable paramedic saved me from intubation by running Magnesium. Even the ER doc didn’t know about that. (It’s been researched and proven!)
The breathing out thing was what I was told by a respiratory therapist. They’re AMAZING. Gave me breathing exercises and actual information on how best breathe when I take my meds.
Also, ask your doc if you should be using a spacer. I found a spacer to be a literal life saver when they changed the inhalers from the CFC type.
Totally unasked for advice, feel free to smile and nod and move on, but I feel bringing something up that you can ask your doctor about may be helpful and at the very least isn’t harmful.
Understandable, have a nice day.
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@junipersky I had to literally just come to terms with never seeing friends and family in Austin/the Hill country because of my severe allergy to Cedar. I’m so sorry you’re miserable, I empathize hard. I hope it’s just allergies!
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@GF Woah. That should be utterly illegal! That’s so scary!
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Allergy medicine +decongestant finally stopped the heavy runny nose… now I just have to get all the gunk that got into my lungs out. Not fun.
I thought it would be easier once we got home because home is ~1000 ft lower in elevation. Nope. It is actually harder to breathe. X.x Explain that!
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I really appreciate all of this advice because while I really like my pulmonologist, my experience with asthma has gone undiagnosed so long and responded so positively in the short time I’ve been diagnosed that I just have, like… none of this information that people who have been dealing with it for years have.
In fact even my doctor maintains that when I was in the hospital at the start of the pandemic, I was probably having an asthma attack triggered by COVID. But no one could figure out why I was making that terrible wheezing noise every time I tried to breathe ecause it didn’t say “asthma” in my chart, so it apparently didn’t occur to anyone that was what was happening.
I did recently read something about Vitamin D supplements improving asthma symptoms if you weren’t aware of that, which makes sense to me given my situation. At the start of all of this they ran a bunch of blood tests on me to check for allergies beyond what they found with skin tests and apparently, I’m also Vitamin D deficient. And not like “your average extra pale North America white person who burns in the hellish light of the daystar” deficient. I mean, like, “We’re given you the industrial strength prescription Vitamin D pills we normally reserve for children with rickets” deficient. If your asthma isn’t well-managed, maybe it’s worth asking your doctor about?
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My immune disorder makes my Vitamin D level 3. I understand.
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Enjoying watching That’s Entertainment with a wistful, nostalgic smile for all the fond moments watching the full movies over the years when they get to the final number of Babes On Broadway and you just cringe.
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So this stabbed me in the heart today.
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This one hits real hard.
It’s one my resolutions in 2023 to be more proactive about my friendships, because I tend to do the same thing. I turtle, and wait for people to reach out to me, and it makes people reach out less, so I think they don’t like me, so I reach out less, so they reach out less, and…
AAAAAAaaaa.
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So much this. The past few years have exacerbated it, too. Out of sight, out of mind, and it contributes to the spiral.
One of my 2023 resolutions is to go through and try to rekindle any that have kind of flamed out in the past three years that may be attributable to this. I think it’s going to be hard, but worthwhile in the end.
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@Solstice Saaaaame.
I’ve tried to be better about reaching out to discord friends and the like, at least, like, once a year to say “Hi, I know you’re alive and I still think you’re neat.” I always hope that it will spark a more ongoing conversation.
It rarely does, and I’m sad about that - but at the same time, if I’m always the one reaching out, then it does start to feel like, “Ohhhh, right, I am more attached than you are, and I should definitely back off.”
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@crawfish Yep. It me.
