weapon69

Just wondered what triggered off your asthma, or if you were born with it? I haven't got the wheezing associated with it but i have pretty much every other symptom.......

Thanks.

weapon69

hmmm....can stress trigger off an asthma attack?

minor_threat

Stress can trigger an asthma attack but it's never happened to me. Pollen, dust, sneezing and furry creatures are the usual culprits for me. I could run round a rugby pitch for 90 minutes and not be bothered by it but if I stood a mile downwind from a smelly horse I'd have to get the inhaler out.

Also laughing hysterically can trigger an attack, so watching things like Bo Selecta and Billy Connolly on television can occasionally be dangerous.

ajm

Mine is mainly allergy related - dogs predominantly although most furry animals to an extent although very cold air and/or strenuous exercise do it sometimes, as do certain chemicals particularly sulphur dioxide (as I found out after a greenhouse fumigation went awry! )

messiah

Mine's triggered by Animal Hair and Pollen - have heard that stress can trigger an attack.

I first got Asthma when I was 11 - had inhalers ever since.

I've got 2 inhalers now - 1 to stop getting attacks (Beclazone) and another to stop attacks if they start (Salbutamol). Apparently the spasms that the attacks are, scar your lungs!.

Don't always have the wheezing - in fact I probably don't wheeze in the majority of cases when I need an inhaler - it just feels like a hippo's sitting on your chest or that your throat has shrunk to about a 10th of the size it should be. Quite frightening if you forget your inhaler.

weapon69

I'm actually pretty worried about my breathing, sometimes i just can't get any air into my lungs at all and the pain i'm in today is driving me mad!! Drs are being so laid back about it and i'm in agony

ajm

What are your symptoms exactly? Shortness of breath and chest pains could be angina related!

weapon69

Struggle for breath most of the time now, bad pain in my chest and in between my shoulder blades......

SiPie

You must look 'real daft', running around for 10 mins after the game has ended

Manda_po

I was thirty when I first got asthma. Pollution and house dust are my common triggers. It is much better since I stopped smoking.

minor_threat

LOL, yes! 10 minutes warming up before the start!

messiah

I've tried the Seretide Inhalers - although labeled Serevent - they triggered an attack on me!

Wouldn't W69 get a better response from her midwife?

Markus

Have been asthmatic (never been able to speel either ) since about 10. Pretty mild though, so I'm lucky.

Triggers? Let's see, well, used to be smoke, pollen, cats, dogs, wabbits, dust, over exercise, and stress. Now I'm older, seems to be excessive pollen, dust, over exercise (not ALL over exercise though ) and stress.

I do carry my inhaler with me all the time (Bricanyl/Terbutaline Sulphate) but only use it when I need to, ok, so I should take 2 puffs 3 times a day, but haven't done that for many many years now.

Sooz - given your condition, bell the quack asap, or get down, ok, ok, UP, to K&S right now.

Hope all is ok

Markus

Fecking quacks, grrrrrrrrrrrr. OK, if she was not preggers then, maybe, just maybe, the lack of action by the medial profession would be slightly understandable, but it's two lives not one we are talking about here.

Am wondering if just dialing 999 might be an idea, it is technically an Emmergency, they can't exactly turn her away, can they?

Diablo

Bravo/Weapon, stop fecking about with the GP's and get down to A & E.

Much better response there - and if she's that out of breath it is an emergency.

GP's suck.

D

messiah

GP's just fob you off all the time IMHO.

Going back tomorrow to be rediculed about the broken bone in my hand again

W69 - do you know someone with an inhaler (Salbutamol, the blue one) just have a blast on it and see if your breathing improves.

Markus

Bob,
Good to know what it is, not that what it is is good, you know what I mean.

Sooz,
Hang in there, and keep out of the way of Badgers!

Scooby owner one day

I`ve had it since I was about 3 although it went away from about 9 or 10 until my late teens for some reason but don`t get it as bad as I used to apart from when I cut the grass when the pollen count is high. Other things that affect me are mailny dust and exercise sometimes and the weather especially like now when its hot and stuffy.

Soulgirl

I am infatuated with medical ailments... makes me go out and find all the information possible.

There is a Russian who proclaims to be able to cure asthmatics with a mere paper bag! Yes, it is true!! He says it is merely a case of over breathing and states that when an asthma attack is upon you, you should breath slowly and shallow... this enables your alveoli to disperse the oxygen rather that rebuff it and become drowned. The reason you cannot breath is because your lungs are already full and need to be emptied before being able to take the next breath. Panic then sets in which in turn starts the ever decreasing circle of breathlessness.

He cures all patients who trek to Russia - within 2 weeks all patients are off drugs and leading normal lives...

Of course.. I am not expert,,,, but here is a little excerpt: http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~buteyko/Buteyko21.htm

weapon69

Haven't got asthma But i still can't breathe

Anyone got any ideas on how to give yourself high blood pressure -i'm suffering here with really low BP at the mo!!