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hiddenmuse) wrote2004-09-22 01:47 pm
hiddenmuse) wrote2004-09-22 01:47 pm
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I don't want to turn into a hypochondriac - or a total Drama Mama here - but, I'm finding it a bit peculiar that some days, I can get up stairs, hills and other minor inclines with no problems. Other days, I'm huffing and puffing as though I had just run a friggin' marathon.
Nothing has changed physically - my weight has actually gone down, so I like to think that my physical condition is improving. I know that my allergies tend to be an upper-respiratory thing, manifested in watery eyes, constant sneezing, runny nose/ congestion, sore throat - but on occasion, it gets into coughing and wheezing attacks.
Sometimes, the coughing and wheezing hits at the worst moments - last Saturday, for example: I was talking to Kellie, laughing over some witty/stupid comment one of us had made, when all of a sudden, my sides and stomach started to tighten and I was having trouble breathing. I was laughing so hard that I didn't know if I was crying because I was laughing so much, or crying because I was freaked out over the sudden onset of side and stomach constriction.
I know, I need to get off my ass and call the doctor, if only to get some better allergy meds, because the Claritin just isn't working. I just want to know if I'm possibly dealing with asthma - or making much to-do over nothing at all?
Nothing has changed physically - my weight has actually gone down, so I like to think that my physical condition is improving. I know that my allergies tend to be an upper-respiratory thing, manifested in watery eyes, constant sneezing, runny nose/ congestion, sore throat - but on occasion, it gets into coughing and wheezing attacks.
Sometimes, the coughing and wheezing hits at the worst moments - last Saturday, for example: I was talking to Kellie, laughing over some witty/stupid comment one of us had made, when all of a sudden, my sides and stomach started to tighten and I was having trouble breathing. I was laughing so hard that I didn't know if I was crying because I was laughing so much, or crying because I was freaked out over the sudden onset of side and stomach constriction.
I know, I need to get off my ass and call the doctor, if only to get some better allergy meds, because the Claritin just isn't working. I just want to know if I'm possibly dealing with asthma - or making much to-do over nothing at all?