Date:   5/22/2007 12:27:09 AM ( 17 y ago)
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In the past I was regularly treated with albuterol for repeat bronchitis flareups. I lost track but the treatment occured at least 5 to 6 times over a period of about 5 years. That period itself was fallout within 2 years or so of my first ever bout with pneumonia. On both sides of this pneumonia, my history has always been that colds - especially head colds, often tend to settle in my bronchials and then would often lead to bronchial infection. The main thing I noticed after the pneumonia is that this predisposition was more pronounced.

With this many treatments in a short period, it became a routine, two fold : 1) go to docs office with bronchitis, assistant would hook me up to a special breathing machine, pour some office-grade albuterol into a little container on top, then have me breath the vapors for 15 minutes; 2) prescribed a derivative of the same albuterol in a puffer/inhaler form, with instructions to puff once every 12 hours as needed.

The good & the bad: in the short term, the meds provided relief. However, over the same period of 5 years, I eventually began to experience some rather odd/bizarre symptoms that would manifest in and around the diaphgram. Odder still, the symptoms did not occur on a predictable basis, they could come and go in cycles (it seemed) and when they came, they only came at night when I was in bed and either in the process of fallign asleep OR already asleep. In the latter, this would usually but not always wake me. The symptom was a gradual onset of feint but distinct/deep spasms/vibrations in the area of diagphragm. It took me the better part of 5 years to finally link this to some sort of delayed side effect from the breathing meds. The end of the 5 year period just happened to coincide with the period when I was going through the most dramatic stages of an overall waking-up ( to the world of illusions that's been pulled over our eyes) journey.

Once I connected the odd symptoms to the inhaler, I stopped using it, and it then took a good 6 - 9 months for the night time symptoms to go away for good. This happened sometime between the late 90s and early 00s. Since then I've gotten totally off meds and completely out of the health-care loop. The bronchitis still flares up now and then but I've managed to tame it with some decent success using herbal remedies - tincture of Lobelia and Mullein to help clear the bronchials, and a different remedy all together if/when bronchial infection seems evident.
 

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