Welcome to AsthmaStory

This web site is the place for me to tell my Asthma Story and hopefully stimulate some thought and hope for those that are suffering with Asthma.

At the age of 30, I was diagnosed with severe Asthma. In 1995 I came close to dying from an asthma attack when a near fatal asthma attack put me into full respiratory and cardiac arrest!

A neighbor took the above picture while paramedics were performing CPR on me as I lay on our front porch.

After this close call, I decided I had to try and reclaim my life and fight this terrible disease. Even despite the claims of medical professionals that asthma is incurable. My story is proof that extremely severe asthma can be cured.

A friend of ours who is a pharmacist then found fascinating new research by Dr. David Hahn in medical journals about the bacteria Chlamydia pneumoniae (and mycoplasma) and the interesting link it has to being a possible cause of asthma. These studies indicate this research may be of benefit to 50% or more of adults and children diagnosed with asthma.

I am not a doctor and do not offer medical advice here. I also don't sell anything on this website. This is only a place for me to share the steps I took to become completely cured of asthma. Now that my asthma is cured, I hiked hundreds of miles of rugged terrain on the Appalachian trail (AT) May of 2002 and May of 2005. And I hiked/waded/slogged through 40 miles of everglade swamps on the Florida Trail (FT).  

Most important.... I did these hikes with no inhalers, no medicines and best of all, no asthma.

Take time to browse the research posted here. Also check out the topics posted on the (now inactive) forum. Looking through the research and link sections you'll see there are hundreds of researchers around the globe studying this important link between Chlamydia pneumoniae and asthma.

While it doesn't work for everyone, in many cases asthma can be cured in adults and children. I host this website out of graditude to support the research of Dr. David Hahn (and others) in learning more about these life robbing bacteria.

Jim Quinlan,
Clearwater Florida

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Notes from visitors to the asthmastory.com website

May 2010 - Dear Mr. Quinlan, I won't take up too much of your time.

I just want to tell you that your website and your asthma story saved my husband's life. He was a runner in excellent condition and got the flu this past August - and didn't get better but worse. Two months in they diagnosed him with COPD and then asthma - he was on 3 daily asthma and cough medications - he was doing the neti pot 3 times a day and had to buy one for work! He had over $6000 worth of testing done - x-rays, breathing tests, etc.

I came across your article and info after dealing with this for 6 months - his life was so different and depressing from the life he was used to living and the prognosis was just inhalers for the rest of your life, which didn't really control the symptoms either.

I printed out your info and DR Hahn's, and my husband tried to speak to his DR about it. The doctor had never heard of it and told my husband NO. The next day the DR called my husband at work and said he had a change of mind and was willing to TRY this, but doubted there would be any results.

My husband has now completed his 3 months of antibiotics and he is a brand new person. He has been off ALL asthma medicine for 2 months now and is back to his normal running and exercise regime. It almost seems like it was just a bad nightmare that we lived through.

Mr. Quinlan, if it weren't for your willingness to write about your story, I don't know what would have happened to my husband! He was getting repeated infections, lung and sinus. I am sure that he would have eventually gotten pneumonia and who knows what from there - it's hard to think about!

He is 45 and has so much life ahead of him. I cannot thank you enough for sharing your story and treatment plan - it saved my husband's life.

From the bottom of my heart with so much thanks and gratitude, May God richly bless you!

A happy Wife, Hudson, OH

I was diagnosed with "adult onset asthma" for more than 15 years. My regimen included 3 different inhalers, steroid injections

every 6 weeks and at the end I was taking 20 mg of prednisone twice a day just to breathe. I was using my rescue inhalor 10 times a day. Through the years I tried all the inhaled steroids, Uni-phil, advair... the whole line up. My doctor had me on almost $600 worth of meds every month. Even so my asthma got worse every year.

Thanks to this forum and the encouragement of Maureen and several others, I stuck with it until I found someone willing to give me the prescription. My life has been changed dramatically and I owe it to those who continue to prove that this treatment works.

Bill, Dallas TX

Wow do I feel good, I lie in bed at night and just breath I have had this type of asthma for 65 years. Now 70, I can celebrate. It's really funny how doctors deny that a cure exists for this type of asthma.

Jim F. Wilmington, CA

I have witnessed a miracle. So many amazing things have happened but my 13 year old son Devin said it best last night “My asthma is cured, mom.” He never knew before what it feels like to breathe fully. Now he runs, laughs, sings, talks, walks, and plays without wheezing. I am so very grateful to the wonderful people who have made this possible.

Debbie, Illinois

I am writing to thank you for your help and support with my daughter last year. She finished her three months of Zithromax in January 2005 and has had no asthma symptoms since. For a while after she finished, I was afraid every time she would get a sore throat that maybe she wasn't better.

Sore throats today are just that... sore throats and not a warning that "asthma" will follow. Whitney has been off of all her allergy medications for three months now and is doing great. She has her energy back and is just a normal kid. No more coughing, no more sickness that never really goes away, no more medicine, no more stuffy nose.....just a healthy, happy child.

I am so thankful to you for getting the word out about the mycoplasma pneumonia. Thank you, Jim, from the bottom of my heart!

Diana, Indiana

Read what Dave Oshinski has to say on his astha cure website (Daves Website http://oshinsky.org/asthma.htm) about how Dr. Hahn's research and resulting asthma cure changed his life by completely curing his severe asthma in 2003.

Dave Writes, "I'm still asthma-free and loving it !! No wheezing, no inhalers, even when I ride my bicycle for 60 miles. FANTASTIC. The big question remains: when will physicians offer this treatment to those patients who might benefit ????"

Dave, NY

Hi Jim, Thought I would share AsthmaStory II with you. I convinced my doctor to give me the c.Pneumonia test. He sent me to a lab and his nurse called me with the results. You warned me. She said I was negative for c.pneumonia. I asked her what the titers were and she gave me a decimal. I told her its not usually a decimal and asked her to have the doctor call me.

He left a message for me and said I am totally negative and there was no point in going forward. I called back asking to speak to him but the nurse said what would be the point. I asked for a copy of the test and they sent it to me. I got tested for Chlamydia trachomatis, the sexually transmitted disease. I called the doctor and made an appointment.

When I showed him that I was tested for the wrong thing he said that was the proper test. He backed down the second I said he was wrong (I had proof) and called the lab to verify that in fact I was tested wrongly. Anyway, he ordered a new test and now I find out I have an IgG of >1:512 and an IgA of 1:64 both way out of wack. So the doctor called me and congratulated me on my persistence and is giving me the antibiotic therapy. Wish me luck.

Walter, AZ

Keep it up Jim - soon the research will prove we are on track here. It has happened this way before. But beware the vested interests - many groups want this asthma thing to continue. - Drug companies are making millions out of useless but expensive inhalants - Many specialists want it to be kept as a black art to perpetuate their jobs

John, England

Upcoming Book

"A Cure for Asthma? What Your Doctor Isn't Telling You - and Why"

is a book currently being written by Dr. David Hahn.

We will announce and post appropriate links when more information and publishing dates become available.

News

(July 2010) Wilmore Webley PH.D. recently sent me some of the latest research he was a part of:

Infectious Chlamydia pneumoniae is Associated With Elevated Interleukin-8 and Airway Neutrophilia in Children With Refractory Asthma

Occurrence of Chlamydia trachomatis and Chlamydia pneumoniae in paediatric respiratory infections

Science Daily News
(May 25, 2010)Scientists from the University of Massachusetts have developed an animal model that shows how an early childhood lung infection can cause asthma later in life.

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The University of Wisconsin, American Academy of Family Physicians, Wisconsin Academy of Family Physicians (WAFP), The Dean Foundation for Health, Research and Education (Dean Foundation) and Pfizer corporation is sponsoring a study and recruiting volunteers for a study called AZMATICS to determine the effectiveness of Azithromycin as Adjunctive Treatment for Adult Asthma.

Important notice: At this time, the study is no longer recruiting subjects. However, the Principal Investigator, Dr. David Hahn, is willing to discuss other research opportunities that may be available for asthma suffers.

If you are interested in learning more, you may email Dr. Hahn at:

Dean Foundation

Follow this link to learn more about Dr. Hahn and the Dean Foundation.

If you are interested in making a donation to The Dean Foundation you can specify that it be used towards infectious asthma research

Support forum

First off, I would like to apologize for abruptly shutting down the support forum several years ago. Besides dealing with hackers, trolls and rude people, I was going through an extremely stressful time in life that resulted in the loss of our youngest son.

It got to be too much to handle so one day I flipped the switch and shut it down.

I know this upset some people so I hope they can accept this apology

Archives for the support forum can be found here. Plenty of good information to research

Old News

Newspaper Articles about AsthmaStory

The St. Petersburg times ran a story about AsthmaStory just before I went on Appalachian trail journey

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Several newspaper articles about the near fatal asthma attack.

Article 1

Article 2

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Every year thousands die from fatal asthma attacks

Take asthma seriously!

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