My son has been a chronic asthmatic for 17 years, since age 1 and has allergies as well. He has always managed with daily dosages of his inhaler and is now on Advair. However, the past few times that he has been checked the doctor said that he has no asthma symptoms; at the time the doctor checked him he was not feeling asthmatic. After questionning him about his stress levels, the doc insists that its not asthma and diagnosed him with anxiety and gave him sleeping pills and some other anxiety drugs. Yes, my son has stress. He is the valedictorian of his class and is entering college next fall as a freshman pre-med. But, he always seems to handle his stress well in my opinion. He is sometimes agitated, but arent all teens? Hes a great kid, and works hard and takes time off for tennis and fun. Now, my question is this: He continues to have asthmatic symptoms; sometimes with wheezing and sometimes there is no wheezing but shortness of breath. He almost passed out during a tennis match today. and this evening he said that his chest feels tight and he has shortness of breath ...now should I take him to a specialist or a psychiatrist ? The doc said that I would be wasting my time going to a specialist.
Hie, i am a patient of same thing,I have been a patient OGF seasonal bronchitis since the time I was 5 years of age,now I am 21.however since last 1.5 years,I have developed signs of permanent asthma, i should rather consider it as peculiar asthma, i am normal most of the time by taking a tablet of MONTE LC(MONTELUKAST, LEAVOCITRIZINE)daily, however in the absence of my taking the tablet, i fall short of breathing badly,even doctors sometimes fail to find asthmatic symptoms in me most of the times,though when i DNT eat the tablet I feel terribly under respiratory stress and within an hour of taking the tablet, i get perfectly fine, please contact me at sethiankit2210@gmail.com to further discuss your son's problem as I find it somewhat related to mine.