How it started…
For over a year I have been suffering from vague tightness. It is difficult to say when it does and doesn’t bother me, what type of tightness it is and whether there is a certain trigger. Because it has been getting worse in recent months, I make an appointment with the general practitioner. The GP does not hear anything strange about my lungs, but she wants me to have a lung function test to see if it may be asthma. If that does not work out, then I have to see a pulmonologist because breathlessness is not okay. A few days later, the practice nurse takes the lung function test, spirometry. The curve I blow is abnormal, a strange flattening instead of a nice peak. Because she has never seen this before, she wants to advise the GP to refer me to a pulmonologist. Because I would like to know what the abnormal curve could mean, I am looking for information about spirometry curves. Soon I found that this curve fits an airway obstruction. I also find information about tumors, but I ignore t...