I have not been posting on here as regularly as originally planned, but I'm going to start doing my best to at least post once a week. I've been able to get out and ride a bit more this month, it's been nice not have those 100 degree temps anymore! Mainly I've been doing some 10 mile and 20 mile rides around the neighborhood. Last Wednesday I did the 30 mile Spring Hill loop with R.
Labor Day, Sept 5th I participated in the 72 mile ride for Bike 4 the Brain. R rode too. I did alright, but I could not breathe at all anytime we hit any type of hill! I left the ride feeling a bit defeated and scheduled an appointment to see a doctor about my asthma. I had my appointment on Friday.
They measured my lung capacity and while I don't know the technical terms, I do my best to explain the results. There are large lung airways and small lung airways. At rest, my large lung airways are working at 90%, my small lung airways at 70%. The dr said she would like to see that 70% increase to at least 80%. They had me breathe into a nebulizer for 10 minutes and measured again. My large airways stayed the same and the small ones had increased to 86%, and increase of 23%. I left there with a prescription for Singulair and a refill for my inhaler. I'm supposed to take the Singulair every day for a month and use the inhaler as needed and then show back up in a month for a follow up.
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