Could this be asthma or allergies ?
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Hi everyone,
For the past 3 months i have been dealing with congestion, post nasal drip, productive cough and some chest tightness. This is the first time in my life that i have experienced something like this , I am 62. Oddly when i go to bed everything disappears , no cough ,no congestion absolutely nothing. But when i wake up it starts all over again. I went to ENT had CT and culture. CT showed acute sinusitis and allergic rhinitis and maybe a polyp but no polyp on the ct report. Culture grew bacteria was placed on doxycyline. So then i went to an allergist. I was coughing alot so he did the breathing test and it was in the low 70's. He also did a breathing treatment with xopenex because i have paroxysmal a fib . Then it went up to 77% . They also did the skin allergy test on my back but nothing showed up . So he ended up giving me symbicort and proair and to return in 3 weeks for more allergy testing. I started using the symbicort but it makes me feel jittery and nervous .And it scares me because i dont want to go into a fib. It does seem to help my chest tightness. I am also using flonase which has helped also controlling the post nasal drip . At this point i dont know if this is asthma or allergies or something else. Does anyone have any suggestions . I would greatly appreciate it . Sorry this is so long .
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taylorcollette Sunflower13
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I am sorry to hear that you have been going through such annoying symptoms, i understand, i go though them almost daily. with that being said, i have well.. both. my allergies often trigger my asthma and sometimes vice versa. EXAMPLE my allergies to things like pollen, the pollen when i breath in rests in my throat causing a nasty constant cough along with other symptoms and often something that is trigging your throat to cough is also usually going to trigger the rest of your sinuses. They typically go hand and hand, and some seasons asthma is more bothersome than allergies(winter) and allergies more potent than asthma (spring). Having an asthma control inhaler and some sort of allergy regulatory medication has helped me with mine. AND allergy shots are recommended.