My wife has shortness of breath. One specialist diagnosed asthma and another one CPOD. This was determined by x-ray. I'm surprised no-one mentioned these quite common ailments. The treatment consists of advair, atrovent and ventrolin at various times of the day. Theses are puffers as you know. jaybass

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