Melmr
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My daughter earned a 4 year AROTC scholarship last month. She is a lifelong cheerleader and had issues with coughing during exercise in middle school. Her first diagnosis was exercise induced asthma and she was prescribed and inhaler. She never had trouble breathing just a cough. The inhaler didn’t really help with the cough so we went to a couple other specialists trying to figure out what was going on. Finally the ENT diagnosed her with vocal nodules. Now this diagnosis made sense. She stopped cheering to help her throat heal and took up NROTC instead. It took a long time, maybe a year, but her vocal cords finally healed. We went back to the Pulmonologist last year who declared that given her diagnosis of vocal nodules, it was most likely the irritation to her throat that was causing her cough. He would not come out and say misdiagnosis but he put in her chart that it was unlikely that she ever had asthma. We totally agree with this and are confident that her vocal nodules caused all of her issues. She told the PMS at her college of choice about this and he said that if we feel she never had asthma and it was a misdiagnosis, that we didn’t have to put this on her form. Is this true? She will definitely have to list the inhaler under medications though.