Well the Pleurisy seems to be clearing up but as per the other thread I have been struggling to breath. I was given a blue inhaler two weeks ago (which I thought it wasn't do anything), today I've been to see the asthma nurse for some tests, which involved blowing into a machine slowly and then as hard and fast as I can, doing this once and then again after taking the inhaler. I was pretty shocked at seeing the results without the inhaler, it showed without the inhaler on the long slow breath out that I had a lung capacity 105% for someone my age, but the problem came when I had to do a short fast breath out, emptying my lungs, this showed that my lungs were equivalent to a 75 year old, not good when I'm 35! I then had to do the tests again after using the inhaler (which I thought was doing nothing), my lung capacity when up by a further 10% and the short fast breath out improved, but still not to a standard of an average person.
The nurse then talked about two options, trying a steroid inhaler or going to see a chest specialist to try and work out what is causing the problem.
I know there has been a lot written on the forum about asthma, but does the blue inhaler normally solve the breathing? How many of you take the steroid inhaler? Should I be trying to stay clear of this and push for the chest specialist?
Half of me still doesn't think that it is asthma, but as the nurse pointed out that if it wasn't asthma then the inhaler wouldn't have made a difference on the tests.