Proabably been asked before but does anyone have coughing as the main asthma symptom ?
just come back form confused asthma nurse who muttered might not be asthma.
As coughing is the only / most prevlent thing
not in any way asking for medical advice
luckly blue inhaler works
yes i get coughing and i can get a medal for it as well -lol. somtimes i just get coughing especially in a proper attack, other times i am just short of breath. don't quote me on this but with some asthmatics coughing can be the only symptom, have a look at this asthma uk website it should give you more info. if you are not happy what the nurse told you go back and see your gp and/or ask for a referral to your local hospital as they can do more tests etc
good luck
Yes my daughter coughs and throws up phlem when she is having problems with her asthma. The wonderful asthma nurses at asthma uk helped me to convince the docs that my daughter was having problems with her asthma as they kept saying it was viral when we knew this was her usual symptoms of asthma
Asthma nurse should not be that confused by this!
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When I first developed asthma aged 7, my mum didn't twig it could be asthma despite growing up with an asthmatic brother and father - they had more 'classic' asthma. She was very surprised when the GP said my night-time cough was a classic symptom of asthma - and my main one at that point, as I didn't wheeze though did get SOB on exercise and with cold air.
oh yes, coughing is my main symptom too - i've said for a while now i'm not a quiet asthmatic LOL
hi tyber
yes coughing is a main symptom of asthma. your asthma nurse should be able to ask you to do a peak flow (PEF) or spirometry, they often ask you to do this and record the result and then ask you to take a dose of your blue reliever and repeat the test. this can show that the releiver is working. lots of asthmatics dont wheeze. it is likely that i have been asthmatic since childhood as i always coughed in cold air, during the family weekly walk, during PE, and i caught every virus and cold going. however due to not wheezing i wasnt diagnosed until i was 26years old, then i got my diagnosis because i was persistantly coughing but the poor spirometry test was reversed by inhalers.
i suggest you return to your GP or asthma nurse armed with literature from here (mostly free) and ask that you have a medication review, maybe they could give you a preventer inhaler?
a good question - dont be afraid to ask, but make sure that if you need immediate help or your asthma worsens you seek health care professional advice from your GP practice, out of hours doctors, or in an emergency A&E/paramedics.
take care xx ><>
Many Thanks for all your replys
As coughing is an asthma symptom and the blue inhaler worked
coughing is likely to be asthma.
Also have tryed some preventers and either had massive sideeffects or one didn't work but there seem to be lots of other things that could work! (another preventer I didn't know about)
yes I'm another cough-er, without ever having wheezed.
Another main symptom for me is feeling like I'm being strangled and/or a kind of tight feeling in the chest, and especially when the asthma isn't being controlled very well then a pain in my upper back which goes when I'm on the right inhalers for a time.
Bbert, thank you for posting as that is an exact description of what my symptoms feel like! hope you stay on the right inhalers. remember to keep taking the preventers!
take care xx ><>
thanks so much.
thanks to this forum I can now go back to my gp and enquire about better inhalers than the ones I'm on at the moment.
Its funny because when I asked the nurse in my surgery about the pain in my back, they said they hadn't heard of that one before, but when I phoned Ashma UK (this website) they had heard of it before.
Tyber sorry if I've kinda taken over your thread, but better out than in.
keep as well as.
I have a cough, and only a tiny bit of wheezing when u get a bad coughing fit. The blue inhaler fixes it.
I do get tight chested as if I have a tennis ball stuck in my chest! Couging is my main problem though.
I'm glad you posted this as now I know other people ""only"" cough too.
yep coughing confuses medics am glad it's not just me
thanks to the foram I now have enough knowedge and encoragement to go to GP and ask for decent treatment that works
my ED/A&E works on the if it's not whezzeing it's not asthma thing not helpful.
My four year son coughs persistently especially at Night. The GP in my area were busy treating for an infection which later turned out to be false. They refused to nebulized him. What can i do at this instance? He was diagnosis with Asthma last october. Thank you for your replies
hi, i was ill for a year with a ""cough"", constant chest infections, antibiotics, thought my life would never be the same without a constant cough, got sent to a consultant and since told i have asthma started on seretide and montelukast and after 7 months finally no cough (just ocassionally now). cant run or walk very far without being breathless but so pleased to hear others out there as everyone thinks of asthmatics as wheezing only, finally consultant happy to discharge me from their care and just have contact with asthma nurse, hope u feeling better x
seeing GP today kind of scared but fingers crossed
had no sleep last night cause of coughing
hope to get an inhaler that works and will get listened to
thanks for all the replys now I kown coughing is an asthma symptom
Hope your GP is able to help. Coughing is my main symptom too, I don't think I've ever wheezed (hence the ""your chest is clear, I can't hear any wheezing"" comments) so I had about 2 years of coughing and chest infections without an asthma diagnosis. It was only a chance comment from me saying it was so much worse at night that made my GP wonder that it might be asthma. Keep going back to our GP until you get the right treatment x
I get all the normal asthma things and I do wheeze but at times I only cough and this is widely accepted as part of my asthma being outnod control by my docs, so do persevere !
Hugs
Snowy xx
Luckly GP didn't say might not be asthma or go on about having investigations
just said what inhaler do you want to try next? and that it might not work .
so trying seratide as salmatrol might make up for the unplesent effects of flixotide.
unfortuntly GP wanted chest x ray didn't say why ! Realy wish I had asked !
Also they didn't get the connection between horseness bering a steroid inhaler side effect.
carnt stop coughing
Son always coughing
Laughing and coughing
