Cromolyn (Intal)

[Steve Freides]

I have a breathing and sleep specialist who, frankly, I don't care for
terribly much. I've been taking Singulair and Allegra every day and am
very happy with my current condition. I'm strong, thin, in good shape,
and able to do things like run whenever I like although I train
primarily by lifting weights. My asthma is largely related to my
allergies, and is also exercise-induced, so strength training with a
minimum of heavy aerobics works well for me. My resting pulse is in the
40's, as it was when I was a runner - I follow something similar to the
Tabata protocol for my aerobic training, basically short, intense burst
of exercise that don't seem to kick off my asthma the way longer, less
intense bouts do.

My breathing specialist has prescribed Intal in advance of surgery (to
fix a deviated septum), saying he thinks it might help the numbers I get
on the breathing test he administered in his office. He described my
numbers as "not bad, almost normal."

I really don't want to take another medicine, and I am quite convinced
that I got pneumonia a few years ago because I had started taking an
inhaled steroid, Advair. I stopped the Advair and, like magic, no more
pneumonia - I had it two years in a row, the first time requiring
hospitalization, the second not only because we caught it early.

What say you about my refusing to take Intal? I am quite happy with the
way I breathe at this point in my life and feel like Intal is a solution
looking for a problem I don't feel I have.

Thanks in advance.

-S-

[00doc]

"Steve Freides" <st...@fridayscomputer.com> wrote in message
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It is a myth that weight training is necessarily not aerobic. It can be. I
when I was younger and competing my resting heart rate was 60 or less with
no dedicated "aerobic" activity.

Intal is one, less commonly used now, pretreatment to avoid wheezing before
a known trigger. Taking a dose of albuterol is another and would make more
sense to me. You probably should ask him why he thinks this would not be
sufficient.

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00doc

[Steve Freides]

"00doc" <00...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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I have an albuterol inhaler and use it rarely, perhaps once or twice a
year. I don't need it for my regular training.

The doctor is concerned about making my numbers better in advance of my
septum surgery and that's the only explanation he gave. As I said, the
number weren't bad to begin with.

-S-