purbeast
Contributor
Well thanks for the replies guys.
2 Big 2 Fail, you are kind of correct in that I have already made up my mind and will probably do it. I am more just asking on here if people have experiences with people whom may have gone through something I did or has asthma with similar conditions such as mine. Trust me, as an asthmatic, I know that no 2 people have it the same.
Well on a good note just now, the doctor I saw yesterday for the physical JUST called me a second ago. He told me that he had called one of the doctors he knows pretty well from the DAN network and spoke to him about my condition. He actually told me that when I get back if I dive and really enjoy it, that he would like me to possibly talk to my doctor about increasing my current doseage of advair (currently in the middle tier of 3 tiers), just to clear out my smaller lung functionality a little bit, and that if he saw some improvement in my PFT results, that he would clear me medically.
And another thing he asked me is if I had gotten over a cold a few days before the PFT I took. Well on December 23rd, I came down with a pretty nasty head cold/flu like symptoms. That literally lasted about a week, and I could still feel it a tad around new years. I took the PFT on January 4th. So I told him this as well and he really thinks that I will be okay and that he was just being extremely precautious with his decision.
So with my current health and after talking to him again today, I feel pretty confident that I will not have any additional risks due to my asthma
2 Big 2 Fail, you are kind of correct in that I have already made up my mind and will probably do it. I am more just asking on here if people have experiences with people whom may have gone through something I did or has asthma with similar conditions such as mine. Trust me, as an asthmatic, I know that no 2 people have it the same.
Well on a good note just now, the doctor I saw yesterday for the physical JUST called me a second ago. He told me that he had called one of the doctors he knows pretty well from the DAN network and spoke to him about my condition. He actually told me that when I get back if I dive and really enjoy it, that he would like me to possibly talk to my doctor about increasing my current doseage of advair (currently in the middle tier of 3 tiers), just to clear out my smaller lung functionality a little bit, and that if he saw some improvement in my PFT results, that he would clear me medically.
And another thing he asked me is if I had gotten over a cold a few days before the PFT I took. Well on December 23rd, I came down with a pretty nasty head cold/flu like symptoms. That literally lasted about a week, and I could still feel it a tad around new years. I took the PFT on January 4th. So I told him this as well and he really thinks that I will be okay and that he was just being extremely precautious with his decision.
So with my current health and after talking to him again today, I feel pretty confident that I will not have any additional risks due to my asthma