Feeling better
May. 4th, 2010 10:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellestraI went to see a doctor today. My asthma was getting unbearable and I had to force myself to go anywhere in past few days and even than I was only half concious. You know it's bad when you wake up because you can't breath but you don't have the strength to be fully awake and get out of bed to take some medicine.
Anyway my visit to the doctor was pretty painless today as I was in a campus clinic so I didn't actually have to deal with anything involving health insurance. But I was told that if I wanted to see a specialist then (here I was given some instruction but I didn't understand them and cannot repeat) so I decided to give it a pass. The whole visit took about 3 hours including getting prescription. This is little longer then I expected but much less waiting then I'm used to was involved. In fact most of the waiting was for the prescription at the pharmacy.
Most of the time I spent being was checked much more carefully then I'd be in Poland. My temperature, blood pressure and blood oxygenation was checked. I was weighted and measured. And whan I explained what my problem was I got my lungs x-rayed. But the most important part was when I was given the same medication I usually use but in higher dose and in different form. This is what was really important as that was what helped. Breathing wasn't that good in days. Being able to breathe is so good.
My asthma was that bad only during the renovation dust incident. I was told that this happens often to people coming to North Carolina form both other places around the world and other states. The asthma-related leaflets where everywhere. In the end I was given just one new drug but I have to up the doses of all my other medications. And go for a check up next week to see if it works. I hope it does. I'll be in trouble if it doesn't.
As I feel like a new person I decided to change something else too - so new journal style.
Anyway my visit to the doctor was pretty painless today as I was in a campus clinic so I didn't actually have to deal with anything involving health insurance. But I was told that if I wanted to see a specialist then (here I was given some instruction but I didn't understand them and cannot repeat) so I decided to give it a pass. The whole visit took about 3 hours including getting prescription. This is little longer then I expected but much less waiting then I'm used to was involved. In fact most of the waiting was for the prescription at the pharmacy.
Most of the time I spent being was checked much more carefully then I'd be in Poland. My temperature, blood pressure and blood oxygenation was checked. I was weighted and measured. And whan I explained what my problem was I got my lungs x-rayed. But the most important part was when I was given the same medication I usually use but in higher dose and in different form. This is what was really important as that was what helped. Breathing wasn't that good in days. Being able to breathe is so good.
My asthma was that bad only during the renovation dust incident. I was told that this happens often to people coming to North Carolina form both other places around the world and other states. The asthma-related leaflets where everywhere. In the end I was given just one new drug but I have to up the doses of all my other medications. And go for a check up next week to see if it works. I hope it does. I'll be in trouble if it doesn't.
As I feel like a new person I decided to change something else too - so new journal style.
