Hey all, as I've just been to see the specialist, an update is in order.

The anti-inflammatories seem to be working as my chest pain has diminished quite a bit in severity and frequency. I've not had much breathing difficulty and so haven't used the ventolin too often, though the specialist did show me that my breathing was too shallow when I demonstrated my ventolin technique to him. In his opinion, what I have is unlikely to be asthma, and if it is, it's most likely quite mild. What is more likely, in his opinion is something called vocal chord dysfunction, where the vocal chords slightly obstruct breathing due to tension (I think that's what he said the cause was) and that the best way to fix that is to "huff" or pant similar to how dogs breathe for a short while. He said I probably shouldn't bother getting a repeat of my flixotide preventer powder inhaler and that I should keep ventolin on hand but probably wouldn't do much for me, based on the breathing test I did - the graphs for pre and post-ventolin were almost identical. And I walked the almost 3 miles home, so I think I'm fine Though, I will try and be more active as I'm sure that wouldn't hurt, and I could lose a kilo. or ten.

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