please help me breathe

i cannot breathe it feels like my throat is a straw, every single morning i have to get up and take my nebulizer cuz they don't hand out the emergency inhalers anymore as samples. is there anything i can do cuz currently i don't have any health insurance and i tried to get health insurance and they told me it would cost like over 400 dollars a month for one person, so i tried to go through masshealth and they denied me cuz they couldn't prove that i was an american citizen without me driving all the way to worcester or by mailing them my original ID and my birth certificate. i was wonderin if there was any self treatment for asthma cuz i can't take not being able to breathe anymore

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Kymie
Diagnosed June 2004
2.4 Lialda, 40mg Protonics, Flinstones vitamins(yummy),
Rhinocort nasal spray, albuterol, and Advair

Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, and forget about the ones who don't and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance take it, if it changes your life let it. Nobody said it was going to be easy they just promised it would be worth it.

pixie, Are you elibible for Medicaid?  It is for people with very low incomes who cannot afford health insurance. Do you work?  I dom't know what masshealth is but if all you have to do is mail your ID and birth certificate I would do it.  And you don't have to send the originals. if you mean by ID your drivers license make a copy of it front and back. And with a birth certificate get a copy of your birth certificate, have it notorized by a Notary Public and send them. You may need to take a witness with you to the Notary but check with the Notary. Often they have people in the office who can sign and witness a signature.  You can find a Notary at most credit unions.  Look in your phone book if you need to find one near you. I don't know how far Worcester is for you but maybe it is worth the trip to get what you need. I don't know of any natural cures for asthma. I have had it all my life and have had to take meds.  I have albuterol for a rescue inhaler but you can't take it every day.  It is not good for your heart to use albuterol so often.  You may need a long term inhaler.  I take symbicort and it has changed my life.  Can you go to the ER as a charity case and get meds? Who were you getting your sample inhalers from?  Most drs do not have samples anymore as inhalers have become so expensive.  I know how you feel about the health ins. I have to pay over $800 a month for my health ins. but I have had many illnesses and the costs were out of sight so I have to keep the insurance going. Otherwise I would be out on the street. I hope I have given you some helpful suggestions. And I hope you find a solution and start to feel better.

Aurora

States are gradually starting to require the same ID as is required for a passport. That is an original birth certificate and one other form of identification. I got a new passport this year, mailed my original birth certificate to them because the original one I submitted at the office was not accepted. I did receive the original back in about ten days.

Remember, just because your birth certificate is an original doesn't mean you can't get another original. I had to get a new one for my passport, because the one that was issued at the time of my birth didn't have all the information now required. I just ordered two copies so I have an extra just in case.

I was shocked when we moved to Tennessee this year; in order to get a drivers license, we had to present our out-of-state driver's license and either an original birth certificate or passport. Apparently the new rules are part of the whole anti-terrorism thing, and will be more widespread over the next few years.

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