Does PH want to play Doctor?

[Superhoop1904]

Snow blindness?

[dmitsi]

Lord Pikey said:

DamoLLb said:

do you smoke?

Nope, not even tried '1'.

When i get a cold / man flu tho i am told that it sounds like i have smoked 60 a day for 40 years.

You should've tried smoking, it prepares your lungs for the lack of oxygen, similar to that of being up in the alps. You would've coped better while all the non-smokers gave up with breathing problems.

Live and learn I guess, you fell for the government 'smoking is bad' con.

[Mattygooner]

Is it all in your head? Not literally but a form of Anxiety?

[DamoLLb]

Lord Pikey said:

DamoLLb said:

do you smoke?

Nope, not even tried '1'.

When i get a cold / man flu tho i am told that it sounds like i have smoked 60 a day for 40 years.

Then you should start


After all, you only have weeks to live

[Mekon]

Sounds like asthma. Weak lungs, coughing, and a strange metallic taste / taste of blood when exercising are all things I get and attribute to asthma. Get on the Beclometasone inhaler 2 puffs twice a day, and stick with it solidly for a month. If you find the symptoms disappear, job done.

If I am wrong, and you find out it's TEH BAD AIDS, please let me know.

IANA medical DR, URGAY, ETC

[Tony*T3]

Lord Pikey said:

........

So, hit me. what have i got?

Less than a week I'd say.

Should we start a collection now?

Have you informed Max Clifford yet?

[Lord Pikey]

Mattygooner said:

Is it all in your head? Not literally but a form of Anxiety?

Not likely. started after doing 6 hours of the best off-piste this season and the most stressfull think i have going on in my life at the mo is deciding which t shirt to wear to work

[Bill Carr]

Lord Pikey said:

So, hit me. what have i got?

SLAP!

You have a broken nose.

HTH

[dmitsi]

Lord Pikey said:

Mattygooner said:

Is it all in your head? Not literally but a form of Anxiety?

Not likely. started after doing 6 hours of the best off-piste this season and the most stressfull think i have going on in my life at the mo is deciding which t shirt to wear to work

Did the breathing problems start after you saw the price of a beer?

[Lord Pikey]

Tony*T3 said:

Less than a week I'd say.

Should we start a collection now?

Have you informed Max Clifford yet?

Nah, dont bother with the collection. if its terminal ill put my prize possesions up for grabs on PH to the best beggers.

1. Kit Car
2. House
3. Ps3
4. bike collection
5. girfriend.

Edited by Lord Pikey on Monday 23 March 16:04

[Romanymagic]

Lord Pikey said:

Tony*T3 said:

Less than a week I'd say.

Should we start a collection now?

Have you informed Max Clifford yet?

Nah, dont bother with the collection. if its terminal ill put my prize possesions up for grabs on PH to the best beggers.

1. Kit Car
2. House
3. Ps3
4. bike collection
5. girfriend.

Edited by Lord Pikey on Monday 23 March 16:04

• puts up hand* mister, could I have the kit car please?

[F i F]

After all the pissing about responses...

what was your lung function test result, and was it simple peak flow and FEV1 spirometry ie how hard can you blow and what volume in the first second, or was it more detailed eg blood gases measured? or was it the full jobbie with gas transfer measurement? Exercise tolerance test? Did the measurmments differ after taking broncho-dilators, known as treatment reversability?

I speak as someone whose lung efficiency got down to 41%, and at 40% they put you down for a transplant as if they wait any longer you are usually too knackered (or dead) by the time a donor match comes up.

That 41% measurement was on the way up, and I know for a while it must have been a lot worse than that. Reason was never diagnosed, medical mystery though there are suspicions of exposure to dioxins/furans however no proof.

So no help from me other than sympathy, except I beat it with hard work, good living and exercise, basically. A truck load of steroids may have had some help but the trendlines suggest not. Took 4 years.

[Lord Pikey]

F i F said:

After all the pissing about responses...

what was your lung function test result, and was it simple peak flow and FEV1 spirometry ie how hard can you blow and what volume in the first second, or was it more detailed eg blood gases measured? or was it the full jobbie with gas transfer measurement? Exercise tolerance test? Did the measurmments differ after taking broncho-dilators, known as treatment reversability?

I speak as someone whose lung efficiency got down to 41%, and at 40% they put you down for a transplant as if they wait any longer you are usually too knackered (or dead) by the time a donor match comes up.

That 41% measurement was on the way up, and I know for a while it must have been a lot worse than that. Reason was never diagnosed, medical mystery though there are suspicions of exposure to dioxins/furans however no proof.

So no help from me other than sympathy, except I beat it with hard work, good living and exercise, basically. A truck load of steroids may have had some help but the trendlines suggest not. Took 4 years.

Thanks for the heads up. I did the simple breath in and our through a cardboard tube into a machine. He said my lungs were behaving normally but just the air i could take in and out was low. I dont have any more complex numbers than that because the doc has kept them.

I shall ask him when i speak to him. Thanks

LP

[Darkslider]

Mekon said:

Sounds like asthma. Weak lungs, coughing, and a strange metallic taste / taste of blood when exercising are all things I get and attribute to asthma.

I get these same symptoms when excercising, metallic taste in the back of my throat and raspy/shallow breathing. I thought it was just being unfit and starting mountain biking again, will my lungs improve with lots of respiratory excercise? Or should I go to a doc?

[HUW JONES]

Info I glean so far...sudden onset,obstructive spirometry,normal CXR and ECG.

Have you had a cold?...could be bronchial hyperreactivity associated with resp infection...feels and behaves rather like asthma.

Do you travel often by air?...could be a pulmonary embolus.

Do you enjoy showbiz snow as well as the ski type...could be a silent myocardial infarction (unlikley I know).

As your CXR excludes a pneumothorax I bet it's the first one...

[Lord Pikey]

HUW JONES said:

Info I glean so far...sudden onset,obstructive spirometry,normal CXR and ECG.

Have you had a cold?...could be bronchial hyperreactivity associated with resp infection...feels and behaves rather like asthma.

Do you travel often by air?...could be a pulmonary embolus.

Do you enjoy showbiz snow as well as the ski type...could be a silent myocardial infarction (unlikley I know).

As your CXR excludes a pneumothorax I bet it's the first one...

Good afternoon HUW.

Have you had a cold?... - about 4 weeks ago i had a serious case of man flu
Do you travel often by air?... - ONce every 2 months or so, no flying since the beginning of feb.
Do you enjoy showbiz snow - no i am a good boy. nothing except booze



As your CXR excludes a pneumothorax I bet it's the first one...??????????

LP

[M3CHA-MONK3Y]

Emphysema is a lung disease that reduces the ability of the lungs to expel air, a process which depends upon the natural rubber-band-like quality or elastic properties of the lungs. Emphysema is a type of chronic obstructive airway disease, or COPD. People with COPD have limitations in the flow of air through their airways. Emphysema involves the gradual destruction of alveoli in the lungs. The alveoli are air spaces where oxygen is exchanged with carbon dioxide in the blood. Emphysema is lung disease that occurs when the tiny air sacs in the lungs are damaged, usually as a result of long-term smoking.

Would be my guess and as somebody with absolutely no medical experience, I'd take my advice very seriously

Does sound a lot like your description though. Hmmmm this doctor stuff is easy. From now on call me M3cha-Monk3y M.D. or just Dr M3cha-Monk3y.

[Johnny]

Sounds like a classic case of The Gay.

I prescribe a healthy dose of Man The fk Up.

HTH

Johnny

[HUW JONES]

Lord Pikey said:

HUW JONES said:

Info I glean so far...sudden onset,obstructive spirometry,normal CXR and ECG.

Have you had a cold?...could be bronchial hyperreactivity associated with resp infection...feels and behaves rather like asthma.

Do you travel often by air?...could be a pulmonary embolus.

Do you enjoy showbiz snow as well as the ski type...could be a silent myocardial infarction (unlikley I know).

As your CXR excludes a pneumothorax I bet it's the first one...

Good afternoon HUW.

Have you had a cold?... - about 4 weeks ago i had a serious case of man flu
Do you travel often by air?... - ONce every 2 months or so, no flying since the beginning of feb.
Do you enjoy showbiz snow - no i am a good boy. nothing except booze



As your CXR excludes a pneumothorax I bet it's the first one...??????????

LP

Sorry...I bet it's bronchial hyperreactivity. In fact I'll wager a guinea on that sir.

[F i F]

Lord Pikey said:

Thanks for the heads up. I did the simple breath in and our through a cardboard tube into a machine. He said my lungs were behaving normally but just the air i could take in and out was low. I dont have any more complex numbers than that because the doc has kept them.

If it was just the simple tests then you were probably just asked to blow hard into the machine to empty your lungs.

If its the full lung function tests then you will have had some tests like that into quite a complicated machine, plus ones where you didn't have to blow so hard, one where you have to fill your lungs, hold your breath for a while then blow out. That is the gas transfer and tests the ability to take oxygen into the blood and get CO2 out of the blood. There will also have been a session where you just sit there breathing normally. That is the one I hate as they frick about with the gas mixture and at times it feels as if you are suffocating.

Usually they then repeat the tests after administering bronchdilators ie asthma type medication to see if your function is better afterwards.

Exercise tolerance is running on a treadmill while breathing through a tube, like you see Olympic athletes doing.

One word of warning, if it gets bad you'll be like me and lose your flying permit which is a bd, especially if undiagnosed.

Problem is that almost for ever more you can get hassle with travel insurance. Hassle = either refusal to quote or costs a zillion bucks.