The Asthma Support Thread

McChubbin

In recent weeks I've been diagnosed with Adult Onset Asthma following a year and a half of coughing violently. After an endless stream of antibiotics, cough medicines, inhalers and steroids, I've finally been prescribed a Symbicort inhaler by a doctor in Beaumount but I doubt it's making a lick of difference as just now, I tried to take my nightly puff only to cough so feriociously that I pulled a muscle in my ribcage.

Tomorrow, on the order of said doctors in Beaumount (who were lovely and very understanding btw), I'm due into my GP for blood tests to determine if my dog's hair/dandruff contributes as an aggrivator to my cough.

I'm fed up of constantly dry heaving and coughing to the point that I wet myself or pull a muscle.

I'm posting up here because I need to hear from other sufferers in the same boat and, excusing the dire pun, get it all off my chest.

In the past, I've been on Ventolin and Becotide inhalers and they rarely worked. I had asthma as a child but was long thought to have grown out of it by the age of 10. It's only now, having seen a pulminary specialist, that it transpires that I never really grew out of the condition after all.

It also doesn't help that both my mother and stepdad both smoke. Though they take precautions such as only smoking in the kitchen, the goddamned passive smoke is still in the air and it's been adversely affecting my cough.
Despite my protests and the obvious medical evidence pointing to the fact that cigarette smoke makes the coughing worse, neither of them will quit.

Oh, I long for the day when I can move out and not have to breathe in such noxious fumes.

Anyways, that's my asthma story.

Anyone wanna share theirs?

happygoose

I think there's enough people on here for an asthma or respiratory issues sticky, if there's one for hay fever...