I have to go for one of these tomorrow morining. Is there anything I can do to get ready for this?
Long jog or some serious cardio is all I can think of.
why would you want to skew the results in any manner?
tomorrow? lol
And you think whatever you do today will help?
Hang yourself while masturbating as fast as humanly possible and try to not blackout before finishing. Works all the time
SO helpful.
Youre just having a PFT? Pulmonary function test? Any reason why?(just wondering - COPD?)
Sometimes you can increase lung volume under intense exercise, but thats really a function of activation of accessory to breathing, and not really the extensibility of tissues per se. Something like your FEV1 can change, but its not going to be short term like for tomorrow.
Or you can use a short-acting beta-2 agonist to dilate your bronchioles before the test. This will improve your FEV1 but not so much TLC.
To show my lungs are healthy. I came out at 104% I guess I’m doing alright.
I’m beginning to think my reaction to cigarette smoke is an allergy and not asthma.
I have a similiar reaction to cigarette smoke. I limit my exposure and have no tolernace for inconsiderate assholes. That along with some clairitin in the spring and i’m usually good. I hope something changes for you at work. Good to hear you are in good health!
Asthma is a term for “allergy of the lungs.” So if you have an allergy to cigarette smoke, believe it or not, you have asthma. All drug classes used to treat asthma is immunosuppressives/antihistamines with the exception of the rescue inhaler in which you’re only supposed to use it as needed.
A huge percentage of the general population have undiagnosed/misdiagnosed asthma.
Let me guess, youre in school for resp therapy?
That’s all I have is an inhalour… someplace. I havent used it in years, I just get away and get clean air then I’m fine.
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interesting on allergy of lungs being asthema…never knew that.
i have an “allergic” reaction to cig smoke… however i have never had a need for an inhaler.
And chronic asthma is also considered to be a COPD.
Good stuff though by Long
Nope, finishing up my 6th year of pharmacy school at UB.
You may not need an inhaler now, but chronic exposure to cigarette smoke eventually leads to more severe asthma. People are usually diagnosed with asthma when they land in the emergency room for difficulty breathing. The most easiest way to tell if you may have asthma is if you have night time coughing.
I have never been in the ER for breathing issuses, just stiches and broken bones, nor do I have coughing at nigh, I cough when I get a cold. Maybe I should see WTF is going on for realz.
Just for anyone else wondering… don’t use an inhaler or anything else to skew the results before taking the test. It’s only cheating yourself. Plus 95% of the time they give you medicine to breathe and then retest you to see if it increases your lung function or not.
It’s about the same as people taking a sleep study and attempting to “pass” the test so they don’t have to get treatment (CPAP machine or surgery). They take a bunch of melatonin, or something along the lines of an inhaler to open up their air ways. It’s only cheating yourself and wasting money. If you’re going to cheat on it, why bother even doing it? Costs you money, insurance money, your time, your doctors time, and makes people who actually want/need the procedure wait longer.
I didn’t want to “cheat” the test. I wanted to know if there was anything I could do to get ready for it. Breathing exercises, cardio ect. I can’t even tell you where my inhalour is if I still have it around.
I’m going to assume my farm work and splitting all my wood with an axe as my workout plan is working well.