Hi. I ve come to a dead end with my doctor and would really appreciate some help. Let me give you some background: I am asthmatic, but please don t let that occupy your thoughts too much. In 2006 I had Pneumonia and was admitted to Leeds GI for a week. In 2008 I seperated from my wife and moved into a small flat. I wasn t aware for 12 months that there was a wall of mould behind the chest of draws! I had and continue to have a Chest Infection every 2 months since! My main symptoms are the obvious taste and colour of the infection when it comes up. Also a tightness of my chest, making breathing hard, and leading to coughing and choking, now until dizzy, getting a buzzing sentation and disorientation. My doctor goes in circles unsure what the problem is and why the reoccurance of the chest infections. I have had chest xrays (usually by the time they are booked, the infection is gone and xray clear), and have seen a specialist who jumped to the same conclusion of mismanaging my inhalers. This is not the case. The nurse is happy with my meds and how I use them, and how I up the dosage when I have a chest infection. But because the doctor is at a loss, I only get amoxicillen and steroids (the latter are bad for me long term). All I do is go in circles, The chest infections take two courses of antibiotics, and still they do not make me completely better. The infections remain underlying, and the next cold I catch ultimately turns into the next chest infection. This has been my life for over 6 years now, and only since the initial Phenmonia. As a child I had a very weak chest. My mother would walk me to nursery only for me to get there and need to go home as my chest was so tight. I grew out of this with the help of inhalers, and my asthma wasn t much of a problem growing up. These chest infections have only become so frequent since the Phemonia in 2006. I am now at a stage where I feel desperate for someone with fresh eyes and an open mind to look into this, and not just make the wrong assumptions that I don t eat well enough, or know how to take my inhalers... I am 33 (DOB 25/07/80) and know in my heart that if this is allowed to continue without adequate treatment, I face an early death when my chest is older and even weaker. I don t think I can add much more; only that I do take my inhalers correctly, and to make you aware that ALWAYS when I have a chest infection and my chest is tight and breathing difficult, the inhalers DO NOT relieve my chest in any way, but it does feel like it is Asthma - but clearly it isn t. Also when I take a test and breathe into the measure thing to see my lung capacity, it is always remarkably high, which also throws the doctor. With a chest infection I will still score 600 plus. Your help is desperately appreciated. Kind regards, Jamie M Hinton, Reading, Berks.