Here are three websites that ought to help you a bit.

http://www.gp-training.net/protocol/respiratory...

http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~daa/lecture/pft.htm

http://noairtogo.tripod.com/pft.htm

That said, you should go back to your doc and ask for someone in his office to explain the results to you in terms you can understand. Ask what your diagnosis is and what in the test convinced him that was the correct diagnosis. That should get you some answers.

Thank you and yes she is a pulmonlogist

She's leaving you on the inhaler to be sure that your breathing continues to be good during surgery. Once you've had the surgery and have recovered, go back and talk with her about whether or not you want to keep it. By giving you her blessing for surgery, that means she doesn't think your breathing will have any impact on how the surgery will go and that's a good thing. I wouldn't expect you to have any problems with your FEV1 anyway. Mine's half yours and I've had major surgery with full anesthesia with no problems, so you should be just fine. I think your doc's spot on. If she isn't a pulmonologist, you might want to get a referral to one, just to get a good interpretation of your PFT results and to be sure that the pulmo and your PCP agree on treatment.

Tks...I looked at the websites but still having a problem. %Pred was 73%.....FEV1 was 68% and FEV1/FVC was 93% and on bottom of report it says "normal spirometry". I am 69 years old. The doctor says that means your inhaler is really working. I am having bariatric surgery in 2 weeks and she said " you have my blessing". Then she said if you weren't having surgery I would take you off the inhaler. I am really confused. Should I see a different doctor???