Low pulmonary function test

[BonnieGail 10]

I have done all my testing, even my sleep sludy, and everything came back great. Was all submitted into insurance and they came back and said that now I had to do a pulmonary function test I went to get this done and I scored a 62% on my final reading I was wondering if anybody else has scored such a low score and if so what came next they say that I could have asthma so they have put me on inhalers at this time but I had no trouble with my sleep study so the pulmonary function test is the only thing that I'm worried about everything is being submitted back to insurance and I'm waiting to hear what they are going to say now I am seven months into my pre op so I'm waiting for insurance to give me the go so I can schedule surgery.

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[James Marusek 5,244]

As I recall, this is one area that I had problems with. I had asthma and was using inhalers prior to surgery for several years. But I still failed this tests. They recommended I transition to Advair Diskus, which I did and that seemed to take care of the problem. I also had some x-rays taken of my lungs and they uncovered a tumor the size of my fist. It was benign, but because it was so large I cannot help but feel this may have been the root cause of my restricted lung function.

[BonnieGail 10]

As I recall, this is one area that I had problems with. I had asthma and was using inhalers prior to surgery for several years. But I still failed this tests. They recommended I transition to Advair Diskus, which I did and that seemed to take care of the problem. I also had some x-rays taken of my lungs and they uncovered a tumor the size of my fist. It was benign, but because it was so large I cannot help but feel this may have been the root cause of my restricted lung function.

Thank you for your reply I am have already had the chest X-rays and those came back clear I was just sick around January whenever they perform a pulmonary function test and they thought that I had pneumonia at the time so I believe that is why my pulmonary function test came back so bad the doctor is writing up a letter when she sent this in to let them know what was going on with me at the time and to let them know that I'm not having any breathing troubles now but insurance will not pay for me to redo my pulmonary function test so we were going to try to send in the bad score for now but I didn't know if maybe they will make me get a clearance from a pulmonologist at this point because the score was so low

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