I am a 59 year old man that worked 30 years in the Automotive Industry in Southern Ontario. I worked many jobs over the years; production line assembly, metal stamping, Millwright/Machine repair and Machinist for over the last 6 years of factory work. I developed Asthmaⁱ in 2000. I am a smoker. Prior to the Asthma I carried my golf clubs for 18 holes without a problem.

The night the first attack hit me, I awoke gasping for air, every breath I released left me more frightened and short of breath. I could not re-capture fresh air, I thought I was dying. I arose from bed, leaning against thewall for support made my way to the kitchen and stood leaning against the counter unable to move.

I've told many people with asthmaⁱ about my experience getting rid of asthma and how they could possibly get rid of theirs too. I'm continually amazed by their lack of interest. I explain to them this is not some silly breathing exercise or magical herbal supplement I'm talking about. I explain that there is real medical research to showing a relation to certain bacterial infectionsⁱ and asthma and that treatment with abxⁱ works. They always respond with something like "well my asthma's from allergies" or "my asthma's from smoking pot as a teen" or some other silly reason they feel destined to live with it forever. After that they just tune me out like I'm some sort of annoying vaccuum cleaner saleman at their door.

reminder to self to complete

I have been suffering with asthmaⁱ for about 20 years.  I then developed chronic sinus infectionsⁱ and bronchitis.  About 5 years ago, I had sinus surgery to remove nasal polyps.  About this time, I also started allergy shots.  Due to insurance premiums, I stopped taking allergy shots.  For the first time in years after surgery, I could breathe out of both nostrils.  The allergy shots did help to some degree as well. The bronchitis and sinus infections reduced dramatically, but slowly came back.  I use the netti pot and must say that it is very helpful (at times).  I use a symbicort inhaler from time to time and  notice my asthma kicks in when it is cold or when I exercise.  I have never had asthma so bad where I needed a rescue inhaler, but nonetheless, I am tired of my conditio

I saw a blog a while back and wanted to ask does steroid inhalers "feed" Cpnⁱ.  I read a little bit of the Cpn Handbook and it said something about steroids possibly suppressing the immuneⁱ system but I was wondering if more research is out there about this and if steroids actually are conducive for Cpn growth?

Myao

I've been on the Weldon protocol for 13 months now and usually pulse Flagylⁱ for five days.  Is there anyone out there that has experience with or knows about pulsing longer for better effect?

Here is a very recently published abstract:

http://iai.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/77/7/2683

Raven

Tomorrow I will be starting the 12 wk protocol. I was lucky enough to get my General Physician to give us the go ahead. I had previously experienced vertigo from an inner ear infection after a bout of bronchitis. The PA prescribed azithromycin and after taking the 5 day Z Pak I was amazed to notice that my adult onset asthmaⁱ had taken a serious hit! Sooo I googled az & asthma and found your site. I quickly searched for some clinical support, made copies and got in to the doctor. Their normal protocol for asthma was steroidal and Singular etc. I wasn't a big fan of prednisone and took adverse reaction to Singular. But by the very evidence of my asthma sympton reduction we came to the understanding to give this a try. I will follow up this post with a running account of how things go.