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mistybison said:Wait, you're actually volunteering?! 😲
Someone grab him and get him in here before he changes his mind! 😁
silentbison17 said:I was told that if Asthma is diagnosed before age three, it tends to go into remission as you get older... basically, you just deal with an attack every few years here and there, and that's it.
I have a friend who had it just like that as a kid. He’s a smoker now—which is almost unthinkable, right?—but he’s still an asthmatic. Most of his symptoms vanished since his was allergy-driven; the allergies cleared up, so while he's technically still an asthmatic, it's much milder because he stays on top of treatment and keeps it under control. Maybe for you, that counts as being cured, which is great if you aren't gasping for air anymore. But at the end of the day, it's a chronic condition.
Patrick Thomas29 said:I’d argue it was actually bronchitis. My brother dealt with the exact same stuff until he was about seven. He ended up in the hospital all the time because of it. Then, suddenly, it was gone and he never had issues again. Asthma gets misdiagnosed as other similar illnesses all the time. These kinds of respiratory issues in kids often just vanish on their own. It definitely wasn't chronic asthma.
rustymason82 said:You can talk about how you "cured" yourself, but maybe take that conversation to an alternative forum instead of this one.
rustymason82 said:I really have nothing to argue about with you. Asthma is essentially incurable. Unless, of course, you're some kind of medical phenomenon?
Given how diagnostic tools worked 30 years ago, I would actually be more inclined to wonder if you even had asthma to begin with, or if someone simply misdiagnosed you.
Unless you happen to know more than all the doctors combined? Because they are quite clear on one thing: asthma is a chronic condition that cannot be cured.
rustymason82 said:If you start Googling everything, you'll never feel certain again.
Asthma can be managed—whether through medication or simply because your body learns how to adapt and live with it—but it cannot be cured. We can certainly keep the symptoms under control, but a permanent cure? Is that even possible?
rustymason82 said:No, asthma isn't curable. There is simply no magic pill we can take to make it vanish overnight. It is a chronic condition that stays with you for life, but if you manage it properly with medication, can't it be kept under control so it doesn't impact your quality of life?
Andrew Peterson2 said:I’ve been sitting here chewing on a pretty heavy question, just wondering...
What’s the actual life expectancy for people with Asthma? Like, how long do we usually last—and I’m talking about those of us who have been dealing with this since we were kids. I heard about someone once—didn't know them personally, obviously—who passed away in their 40s. They had asthma, but they were also carrying a bit of extra weight too...
Patrick Young2 said:And what about metastases? Does that get cured too? ☕
Noah Sanders4 said:I don't even know how to reply without writing a damn novel and derailing the thread, but long story short: my experience has been solid. But man, that took five years of grinding, tens of thousands of hours, total nervous breakdowns, and basically going toe-to-toe with my own sanity... all that stuff. Once you push through that wall, you start seeing daily profit. Later on, once you stop acting like a human and start operating like a machine, the sky's the limit. I don't touch bots; everything is manual via Geekstuck. No fancy systems, just pure trading. I stick strictly to tennis.
jadetinker85 said:I'm trying to wrap my head around something and I honestly don't even know who to ask—can a biopsy actually trigger metastases?
Mark White2 said:Of course it would be better. Just go get a checkup at a high-end private clinic and you'll see the difference immediately.
Because they actually get paid a decent wage and aren't being worked to death (we're talking maybe 10-15 patients a day instead of crushing through >30).
Look, doctors are employees too. A happy worker is a good worker. Period.
Lisa Perez37 said:Don't be so sure about that... a friend of my sister's mom passed away because of this. The daughter was begging her sister to call a doctor since her mom was crashing, but the sister just snapped back saying the doctor was on strike and she'd have to wait. Now that woman is carrying the guilt of taking her mother to that hospital in the first place.
Look, I’ve seen this play out in my own family... my sister started bleeding during her pregnancy one night and called Petrov over to ask for advice or if she should head in. The guy just loses his cool, tells her there aren't any doctors available, and slams the phone down. So she heads over to the Mayo Clinic instead—everyone there was actually decent. She just waited for the doctor to step out of the delivery room, got checked out, got her meds, and she was fine.
So yeah, not every single doctor is some lazy, ungrateful jerk, but the way they go about things is totally messed up. Personally, I think if we need to, we should implement $17 performance-based pay... just like managers at big corporations like Google... based on actual results. And I don't mean rushing through 100 patients in a shift just to check boxes; I mean how fast they react and how thorough their diagnostics are before making a call... not just passing patients around from one department to another while they wait months for tests while their condition gets worse.