Worrygirl32
26-04-18, 02:17
Hey everyone,
So for a few years now my mom has had recurrent sinus infections as well as respiratory infections. She also has really bad allergies. I may also add that she cleans a lot with bleach. Because she kept having so many respiratory issues I encouraged her to talk to her doctor to see if there was a possible culprit to all if this. He sent her off to do a pulmonary function test. She is 50 years old and never smoked. Just long term exposure to cleaning products (which I don't know if the exposure was often enough to be significant), allergies, and chronic sinusitis, with mild intermittent asthma with no complications. She had the PFT today and she said it made her really anxious and she said it was hard to do. They also did it with a albuterol. There person who was conducting the test told her the pulmonologist would look over the results and send them to her primary care and she would hear back in about a week. I have been extremely worried that she may have COPD. I have spent 3 hours this evening googling the difference between COPD and asthma to see if I can find a differential to basically diagnose my mom. I know I'm jumping the gun here and I know COPD is manageable. But it's obviously progressive and it's giving me a lot a lot of anxiety. Can anyone please over some words of peace?
So for a few years now my mom has had recurrent sinus infections as well as respiratory infections. She also has really bad allergies. I may also add that she cleans a lot with bleach. Because she kept having so many respiratory issues I encouraged her to talk to her doctor to see if there was a possible culprit to all if this. He sent her off to do a pulmonary function test. She is 50 years old and never smoked. Just long term exposure to cleaning products (which I don't know if the exposure was often enough to be significant), allergies, and chronic sinusitis, with mild intermittent asthma with no complications. She had the PFT today and she said it made her really anxious and she said it was hard to do. They also did it with a albuterol. There person who was conducting the test told her the pulmonologist would look over the results and send them to her primary care and she would hear back in about a week. I have been extremely worried that she may have COPD. I have spent 3 hours this evening googling the difference between COPD and asthma to see if I can find a differential to basically diagnose my mom. I know I'm jumping the gun here and I know COPD is manageable. But it's obviously progressive and it's giving me a lot a lot of anxiety. Can anyone please over some words of peace?