Asthma

[Z]

It's that time of year again when my asthma really kicks in and starts to affect my every day life, for example, I wake up and need to use it, if I take a walk outside I need to use it (if it's cold) or if I make some kind of sudden movement I sometimes need it. It makes me incredibly vulnerable to catching colds and 'flu, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Anybody else suffer from asthma, to what extent, and how do you cope during winter?

[Billy]

Meee, my asthmas been horrid recently, I've had like 4 asthma attacks since October

[Z]

Oh God, they're horrible aren't they? It's impossible to describe how scary they are, people tell you to relax and you're like, I can't! I can't feffing breathe!

[Ruth*Star]

I have it, during summer i was fine so i barely needed my Blue inhaler but now the colder weather is here i'm needing it more again, i'm sneezing alot and feeling cold alot.

[Conor]

Theres alot of people in my class with Asthma. Is it brought on by inhaling smoke or something?

[xDramatick]

I have it too.
I'm not badly affected by it, so I don't get too down around this time.

I do find I'm more likely to fall ill, or find it harder to breathe around this time.

[Billy]

And people go "do you want a glass of water" how the feck can I dirnk water if I can barely breathe lmao

[XxShortyxX]

my brother use to have Asthma, he got over it though. We had to sell our bird and dog when he first got it.

[Ann]

my nephew has this and he suffers really bad with it especially now he has an nebaliser to ease his Astma :hug:

[Z]

Conor - it can be due to obesity, inhaling passive smoke/smoking or poor air quality. There are lots of different theories as to what causes it, but I think the aforementioned are probably most likely. I developed asthma when I was a baby, apparently because we were on a ferry to France and we were sitting next to a woman who was smoking through the whole trip. I think that's partially why I hate smoking so much, because I feel it's had a dramatic effect on my life and I don't think it's fair.

[Ruth*Star]

I've had it since i was about 3, I'm not sure what caused it, since i was fine up untill i went to nursery which is when i got it.

[supernoodles!]

ive got asthma and was only diagnosed about ayear and a half ago ( i dont go to the docs enough).Its not THAT bad,in summer im fine but as soon as it turns to september i suddenly notice i need my inhailer more and more until it reaches january and i literally cant step outside without using it.

[Conor]

Originally posted by Z
Conor - it can be due to obesity, inhaling passive smoke/smoking or poor air quality. There are lots of different theories as to what causes it, but I think the aforementioned are probably most likely. I developed asthma when I was a baby, apparently because we were on a ferry to France and we were sitting next to a woman who was smoking through the whole trip. I think that's partially why I hate smoking so much, because I feel it's had a dramatic effect on my life and I don't think it's fair.

Thanks for the info. It doesn't sound very fair.

[Z]

Nope! It's really humiliating as well, if you're playing sports and you have to take some time out to get your breath back and take your inhaler. It's not like anybody passes comment, they're all very understanding, but you still feel useless and ashamed to an extent because they're all fit and healthy and you need to take medication. I also find if I'm going into an asthma attack, the worst bit is the panic that I can't find my inhaler, only after that do I start to feel that I could quite realistically die because I can't breathe properly - which doesn't help calm me down at all.

[Dan_]

I first got it when I was about 2/3 and was really bad up until the age of about 7/8 and used to have loads of asthma attacks, sometimes ended up in hospital to control it using a nebuliser.

There was one time at school when I was about 5 that I came close to dying, I kept telling the teacher I wasn't breathing properly but she thought I was just lying so I was just sitting there barely able to breathe for about 2 hours, luckily my mum was coming to collect me at lunch time.

If I get a cold now it's always much worse than a normal one as it goes straight into a chest infection.

[Ross]

I have it to, had it since I was about 4. I'm ill at the moment. It's horrible.

[Conor]

This sounds really terrible. I must be lucky I don't have it. I hope you all dont feel to down. :spin2:

[CassetteFinger]

I dont have Asthma thank god but my niece does and she has this round Asthma pump and i take it sometimes it gives you a buzz.

[Legend]

I've had it all my life. My last asthma attack was around March as I'd been sick in the day and that always triggers my asthma off and I was breathless all night and then woke up around 1 having an asthma attack so had to go to hospital and it was a chest infection that triggered it.

About 6 weeks ago I got a new inhaler which combines the blue inhaler and brown one and I've been fine since, I take it twice a day and I've not had a day where I have been bad since.

[supernoodles!]

sometimes ,well all the time in winter actually,when i go out on the town i always get really breathless ,sometimes i have a full blown asthma attack.I think it must be to do with the dancing i do,the colda dn maybe the alcohol.I dont know,its very scary though and if im quite drunk then tend to panic more.

[Conor]

Originally posted by Rice_Snap
I dont have Asthma thank god but my niece does and she has this round Asthma pump and i take it sometimes it gives you a buzz.

Is it safe for you to take it, after all, you dont have asthma.

[supernoodles!]

well your not supposed to use an inhailer if you dont have asthma so i doubt its ok to use the pump

[Conor]

Originally posted by supernoodles!
well your not supposed to use an inhailer if you dont have asthma so i doubt its ok to use the pump

I thoguht so. I think you can develop asthma doing that. :conf2:

[Legend]

Originally posted by Conor
Originally posted by Rice_Snap
I dont have Asthma thank god but my niece does and she has this round Asthma pump and i take it sometimes it gives you a buzz.

Is it safe for you to take it, after all, you dont have asthma.

No it's not, my brother takes mine some times and not only is it not safe, it wastes my inhaler that I might need when having an attack.

[supernoodles!]

it cant be very hygeinic either,i know you have to clean the inhailer but anyways.

[CassetteFinger]

Well im still alive.

[Corkie]

One of my good friends died cos of an asthma attack just a month back.

Was very hard hitting, north east people might have read about it.

His name was Daniel Bailey, only 15 years old.

So if you have asthma please do take your inhaler with you.

[CassetteFinger]

So sad and so young aint fair people dying so young :sad:

[Nicola]

I have asthma and can really suffer with it, I'm a bit chesty right now cos I've got a cold coming on. I seem to go through phases where I'm alright and have no symptoms, and then I get really wheezy with it, I'll carry my inhaler around a lot if I think I might end up using it.

[supernoodles!]

my ashtma has been really bad today,becuase I was rushing to catch the post lol and it was really really cold.I hate the way my chest and throat burns and tightens:bawling:

[Nicola]

Yeah I've been really ill with mine today - it's come on bad a few times but I've not actually had an attack so have just been lying low for a bit until I felt like coming online. My partner's got a virus and I think he may have passed it on to me, I'm off to the docs tomorrow to see what they can do, I need to see them about another complaint anyway.

[supernoodles!]

aww thats not good to hear,I hope your feeling better soon:hug:

[Nicola]

Thanks for that, I've been so worried about my partner being ill and wanting to give my little girl a good birthday last week that I didn't realise how bad I was until earlier today when I came in and got really dizzy and short of breath.

[Dr43%er]

I had childhood asthma that went when I was about 8. It then came back when I was about 25. The cold and dust mite tend to be my trigger. It has hospitalised me twice now. The first was the worse. I had been getting worse all week and in the end I walked to the hospital to get some help. They took an oxygen reading from the artery in my wrist and whacked me on oxygen. When I felt a bit better I asked how bad it was and the doctor said that people with that level of oxygen in their blood don't usually walk themselves in, and if I had not I would have been coming in by ambulance later. They kept me in for 3 days. That was a bit scary.

Have fellow sufferers had their flu jab yet?

[Legend]

Yeah, I get my flu jab every 6 months; my mum tells me not to as I'm a "drama queen" but why on earth would I refuse a free flu jab? :bigsmile:

[Nicola]

I've never bothered with the flu jab, I get a cold or flu every Winter so I just let it happen really.

[Dr43%er]

When you say flu, do you mean flu or a bad cold? Proper flu can kill an asthmatic. The flu jab will not stop colds.

[Sunny_01]

My daughter has asthma, she struggles often at this time of year. She manages far better than a lot of people as she is very fit, she is used to pushing herself for sport. She even has an inhaler taped to her Ice hockey stick and water bottle in case she needs them during a game.

[Nicola]

Originally posted by Dr43%er
When you say flu, do you mean flu or a bad cold? Proper flu can kill an asthmatic. The flu jab will not stop colds.

Sometimes it is flu but more often than not I get bad colds that cause chest infections (I've had 2 in the last month and have something like that now!)