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I thought I was the only one who’s been bothered by pulmonary fibrosis ever since I was diagnosed. My doctor told me that I was about three years overdue, and that the good news was that there seemed to be a cure.
The idea behind pulmonary fibrosis is that the fibrotic tissues cause the lungs to become thick and rubbery. The symptoms are aching, tightness, a cough, and in severe cases, shortness of breath. As it happens, this condition can be cured if you eat a diet that includes lots of vegetables and fruits that have antioxidants.
The cure diet was a bit of a mystery to me. I wasn’t even sure if I was going to be able to quit smoking. I had been addicted to cigarettes for a long time, but never thought that I would be addicted to something that was basically a drug. I was pretty sure that smoking was my biggest addiction, and not the fibrosis.
A friend of mine was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis about a year ago. She was a smoker, but never thought that it would end up like this. The only thing that she had been able to do was quit smoking. She was determined to beat the fibrosis, and she made the decision to follow the diet. However, it wasn’t easy. Since quitting smoking she has had to go to more and more doctors. She finally started going to a doctor at another hospital.
She had a blood test to see if she was a carrier for any genes associated with the fibrosis. At the time, she tested negative for any of the genes, but because she had never been tested for the gene, they didn’t know. They were looking for a reason, and they found the result was not good. They were looking for any reason, and they found her to have a gene associated with lung fibrosis.
She was then given a vitamin C pill which she took everyday for the next 8 months. After 8 months, she had no symptoms. The blood test showed she was not deficient in vitamin C. She was allowed to quit smoking.
Although they found a genetic cause for the disease, there wasn’t an easy way to cure it without surgery. So, the team decided to give her a lung transplant, which she’s currently undergoing. They did this because she had no family history of lung fibrosis or other similar lung diseases. The team felt that her lung transplant would help the rest of her family with their lung diseases, too.
I’ve been meaning to write something about pulmonary fibrosis for a while, but have been too busy with my other projects to get around to it. The more I learn the more I realize that it’s a problem with very little chance for treatment. There is no known cure, and there is no known cause. It’s something that gets progressively worse over time, which means it has a long and painful history.
According to Dr. Andrew Weil, pulmonary fibrosis is a genetic disease that is caused by a mutation in a cellular protein. His latest work is showing how the disease gets progressively worse and how it was discovered by accident. He hopes that some of his findings will lead to the development of a treatment that can reverse the disease in its early stages.