Health Update/Birthday

Update on my health and birthday

As you guys know, I've been dealing with breathing issues, such as suffocating while laying down, not getting a full deep breath, etc. The nurse I saw happened to have gone through something similar, stemming from a prior respiratory infection. I'm gonna go into a deep description on what I'm going through, so if you just want the tl;dr, skip this.

My bronchial tubes (windpipe) has been inflamed for a while and gotten worse since I was 18. Ever since then, it has gotten tighter and tighter, and my ability to get that to expand to get air into my lungs from my mouth has gotten worse. Though my exhaling is just fine. Imagine being slowly choked out my a snake getting tighter. The effort I have to exert to get a yawn out, which is the only way I've found to help, even though it's not much, gets more and more. Example, last week I strained my ribs and middle of my back trying to sleep. This also hurts my chest, which doctors would see as anxiety. I had an anxiety attack when I was 15, but that has passed. If you've ever wondered why I won't do facecam, this is one of the reasons, but not the biggest reason. I don't like showing my pain on stream of me trying to breathe.

From this, either I had a previous respiratory infection that I didn't notice fucking me up, or asthma. The air in my basement is shitty. My dad's smoke, mixed with mold and shitty dehumidifiers from years past have most likely contributed to this. Smoking is bad everyone. Seriously, if you smoke, please quit. For everyone's sake. My acid reflux doesn't help this either, but that alone wouldn't trigger this kind of inflammation.

I got an inhaler to use for a month to see what information we (doctor and I) can gather. It isn't a rescue inhaler, so I won't be using it 4 times a day. Just twice. When I wake up and before bed. Whatever the diagnosis comes out to be, I'm happy. Nah, I'm ecstatic. What I've been going through, I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.

My birthday is tomorrow (26th), and I want to stream. My mom and I are going to breakfast in the morning, then shopping after and I should be home by noon or 1pm EST. Then, dinner at 6:30pm EST. I won't say what I'm doing, 'cause I really don't know yet. I will do a speedrun of something and a casual thing most likely. So, that's when you can get your donations in (lol why would you ever do that, geek).

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