Diven Halai is running the London Marathon today with an oxygen tank after being diagnosed with a serious lung condition in 2020.
There’s something ironic about the fact that I was probably the fittest I’d ever been when I was first diagnosed with a seriousAn avid runner, by 2019 I’d just completed my first half marathon and had also lost two and half stone combining weekend runs with personal training sessions at my gym. I was as healthy as I could be. Or so I thought.where I work for a construction company, when I first noticed something was wrong.
my usual 10k run at weekends with ease, I could barely make it up the road past a few houses outside my home in Harrow, Greater London, without needing to stop to catch my breath.I went to see my GP in August 2019 who referred me to hospital for tests., but after waiting a month for a proper diagnosis, I decided to use private healthcare through my workThis doctor thought I had a breathing disorder and I was prescribed eight sessions of breathing physiotherapy.
I was diagnosed with Interstitial Lung Disease – something I’d never even heard of. It’s an umbrella term used for a group of lung conditions that damage the lung tissue. There are more than 200 different ILDs.autoimmune conditionMy lungs were scarred and coupled with thick layers of collagen inside my body caused by the sclerosis, this was slowing down the process of getting oxygen into my blood.chemotherapyI was in a dark place for a long time.
There is no current cure for ILD so all the doctors could do was give me chemotherapy, steroids and immunosuppressants to try and stabilise my lung function. Hopefully this would slow down its progression.
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