Had something misclassified as asthma as a kid. Couldn't barely breathe on random days, at a random time, for a random duration. Set world records like a 16-minute mile - running as frickin hard as I could, sweating all over, and wheezing my innards out :) Funny how it surfaced right after - yup - long-term Antibiotics ...

Funnier yet, it went away entirely as soon as I started CHAINSMOKING. No, seriously, dunno if it's a coincidence or something, but that's how it was. Probably was random, yeah, but a chainsmoking asthmatic getting perfectly better nearly overnight = +1 bloke who definitely *didn't* ever have asthma.

...And just several months later, my high school physed teacher was suddenly trying to pressure me to try out for the track team's sprinting group. Never got involved cause I couldn't care less, but my 400 metres times would've qualified, no sweat, and I wasn't exactly even once trying to push myself to get a good time. So much for that 16-minute mile where I actually tried as hard as I could.

...later, I gained a nasty "smoker's cough", constantly hacking away nasty crap, all day every day. That's what you get, right? WRONG - first thing itraconazole taken for candidiasis nailed "instead" was my cough and my mucuous.

I smoke 2-3 *packs* a day and I can't remember what coughing even feels like anymore. And, yeah, the "smoker's cough" popped up around the same time other candidiasis symptoms showed. Sorta how that "asthma" thing appeared after Antibiotics treatment.... HMMM


Pity all doctors will find some bollocks like "your testosterone kicked in during early adolescence and that fixed everything", never mind the fact that I was cruising the net for early pixelated free pr0n to wank to, starting to shave, and over 6 feet tall by age 11. That would put all that highschool stuff firmly into the "fully physically mature for many years counting" category... DAMN SHAME, CAN'T SUE THEIR ASSES FOR MALPRACTICE, ANY COURT WILL BUY THE HORMONE DEFENSE :( Doesn't make them any less wrong, though...

...Always doubt fricking oh-so-self-evident diagnoses like "wheezing? =asthma 100%", "chronic blocked nose? =bacterial, roll out the antibiotix/allergic so let's put you into a sleepy antihistamine daze for the rest of your life", "strange lower stomach pain? =let's cut you up, call it a hernia, and get mucho dinero for doing nothing whatsoever" --- they're all anything but obvious and true, but Med School is all about the weed and the spending daddy's money on hookers. So, once he realizes he doesn't know anything whatsoever, your GP/specialist/whatever memorizes about a dozen drug names (generally from booklets with lots of pretty pictures of a black male MD and a female asian nurse leaning worriedly leaning over a smiling white female in her 80s - it's the same damn picture everywhere, no variety, the asian chick never gets to be doctor, every single MD must be black and male and wearing ridiculous glasses, white people are always smiling patients only, and white males don't exist outside prostate/v!agra ads - but they never notice - 'caringly' provided by big pharma "for his information" - and the text is written at a 3rd-grade reading level)... Then, he writes scripts on autopilot (mostly Antibiotics and the V3 - v!agra, valium, vicodin, but also one memorized amphetamine, one antidepressant, one sedative, one inhaler, and one muscle relaxant per doctor), depending on what section of the body the patient is complaining about and what the patient's age/sex is. Oh, and if you're a young male, you never get anything but antibiotics at all until your hair grays or balds, because every GP knows all we ever do is doctor-shop for dope.

I'm starting to wonder if docs do ANYTHING except prescribe v!agra/prozac and designate patients terminal once their long-overlooked illnesses finally become so damn obvious even an MD will notice?!?

Small wonder that my country (Russia), with the largest per capita number of practicing MDs on the planet (exceeding second place by a factor of 2x), has such crap life expectancy. Gotta be fair, though, all the above problems as well as my current issues popped up in the good ol USofA, and by the time I moved here, I was all too painfully aware that the only thing docs are good for are stitches and avoided em entirely...

More docs = more corpses, earlier.

First of all you must truly be congratulated. You are very much ahead of where most people are when issues like this present themselves. You understand that every situation has a root cause. This can be stated another way. Cause...effect.

This situation likely has several contributing factors. In environmental health circles there is a concept called "total load." It is imperative to understand this metaphor. In understanding this you can easily move through your current challenge and not only reclaim your health but actually move beyond what you ever thought was possible for having amazing health. You mention that you have had a stress issue for sometime now. It would be good to explore some of the details of this. Emotions are a huge contributing factor to all dis ease. Some say it is THE most important of all contributing factors.

If no one has pointed this out to you yet, I will. There are several excellent methods for dissolving emotional blocks. The most popular method is EFT and another lesser known method is called TAT. Please look into these methods. The knowledge of these methods is freely shared and they are powerful when applied to emotions that can trigger illness.

http://www.tatlife.com/

http://www.eftuniverse.com/


Now back tho the Total Load concept. Our immune systems can be likened to a barrel. When that barrel is overflowing then we feel symptoms. Our immune systems can become impaired or challenged due to all kinds of stressors. Emotional, mental and physical stresses all impact our immune system and how it effectively deals with toxins (some of which are, ironically, stress chemicals).

So then we must look at all the negative contributing factors that can impede our immune system. Our environment and diet are two main areas that we can do much about armed with some knowledge.

You mentioned mold as a possibility. Mainstream medicine is not always much help in the area of environmental toxins such as mold or chemicals. It will be up to you to become your won detective. Perhaps reading from some environmental illness sites can help you to look for possible triggers for you asthma.

Lets take this further. ALL illness is a combination of two things which is actually one thing seen from a greater perspective. That one thing is balance. There are 2 sides of balance. In the case of health these 2 sides are toxins and nutrients. This also pertains to emotional health as well . There are toxic or beneficial emotions.

One must take stock on their life and see what is beneficial and what is harmful, environmentally, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.

For the time being it may be very helpful to try a raw, living foods diet (organic). I would also try some powerful super foods such as barley gold (excellent stuff).

For potential parasites the easiest and most powerful way is to use diatomaceaous earth. For more systemic problems ozonated water and Colloidal Silver can be very effective.

Keep in mind that the body is a holistic mechanism. Treating symptoms only misses the point. The major problem with mainstream medicine is that it is geared to treating symptoms and doing so with toxic chemicals.

See if your problem clears in another environment and also take steps to reduce your total toxic load. Learn about raw living foods and why it is a major step in reclaiming and maintaining optimal health.

You will reclaim your health. Then you will teach others to do the same. ;-)