Speaker: Lyndsay
Tell us a little bit about yourself
Lyndsay: Hi, my name is Lindsay. I'm 34 years old. I'm self employed. That's it.
Tell us about your diagnosis
Lyndsay: I'm not really sure how long I've had asthma nor how long I've had allergies because I didn't even know what that felt like. So, I was diagnosed with allergies, seasonal allergies when I was 24 and then not really anything done about it. And I was never really told how to use allergy medication. So I've just been kind of winging it and I thought I was getting some kind of cold that I developed from teaching and turns out it was allergy related because this past summer I just kept asking my husband and then eventually he's like, just call the doctor. So I called the doctor and then when I went to go see the doctor finally and explained my situation and explained my allergies. He said, why not get it tested? Because I don't know. And then I did and now I have asthma and it's helped.
How has your life changed since your diagnosis?
Lyndsay: Because I didn't know before it was just hard to breathe. So I had troubles, extra trouble sleeping. I would find it hard to, not so much, hard to work out because sometimes that actually made things better when I worked out. It some reason made me feel better. But as soon as I got diagnosed and I took my that like my inhaler for asthma as I was mentioning, I was able to breathe again and I didn't realize how bad it was and I was explaining to my doctor that it took about almost a week for my lungs to not feel bruised anymore because they were overworking obviously, during the time I didn't have my inhaler.
How has Best Care impacted your life?
Lyndsay: Since I've been taking my Zenhale, I've been able to breathe again. I've also been taking my new allergy medicine and my nasal spray on those suggested days I keep track with like an app on the dust and dander report along with in the springtime, the pollen report and it's pretty dead on and I'll wake up in the morning and be dead fully like itchy. And those are the days I'll take a full pill, my nasal spray and everything. Some days, if it's fine, I only take my inhaler because I have to. But since that's happened, I've not had to worry about not breathing anymore. It's not in, actually, my voice was a big trigger. My voice sounded like I smoked 30 packs of cigarettes a day at one point because I didn't know I had asthma and ever since I took the inhaler, my voice is back to normal now I can sing, do everything, hit notes. I'm not dying anymore. So it was a big, good thing.
Do you have a message for others about the Best Care program?
Lyndsay: My message to you and everybody else is, don't be afraid to go get checked. Sometimes, especially with allergies, you might think you're sick and you're not sick, like you might feel like a head cold. You might feel like, you know, you're just shortness of breath and maybe you have COVID, long COVID. I know that's the number one thing, but when it comes to breathing and shortness of breath and feeling like kind of stuffy, that 100% can be allergies. And that was my case. And since I've been diagnosed with the proper medication and inhalers and that I find it just very easy to go along. Like I'm just like, oh, I got to take one today and it is what it is, but it helps me have a day. I'm less tired. I'm able to go my day to day like situations again. I can sing on my own. But, definitely go get checked for that because I spent a lot of years thinking it was just being sick and it wasn't, it was just allergies and I'm not sick, I'm fully really healthy. So, there you go. There's your message. Awesome.
