Silent wheez

[Mjteayly]

Silent wheez:

Okay this is really bugging me I was under the impression that asthma also had a silent wheez an this was dangerous now I'm totally confused as no one else has mentioned it .

I have had asthma since I was 15 this year alone I have had 11 visits to a an e. Versus chest infection pneumonia 4 times this year last year only twice all his flailed up 3 years ago.

Sorry it's a ramble I'm 46 heading along the transplant rout had to leave work finding it hard to get on to benefits, even tho I have just been awarded pip.

Any feed back would be great

Mel x

[Malva22]

Silent wheeze is something I certainly have as no one can hear it - despite my chest being very tight and airways constricted and swollen etc. Exhausted! But there is no wheeze!!! I hate that silent wheeze cause the medical staff's approach is '' No wheeze - no asthma - no problem - no treatment

!'' Cannot take it anymore!

[Mjteayly in reply to Malva22]

An yet when I see the consultant he is in panic mode it's crazy. Even the ICU team come to say hello io see if I can string a sentence together.

Thank you for getting back to me Malva22

[Lisa_G]

Know what you mean. My chest has been bad for a month now. Had steroids, 2 lots of antibiotics, ambulanced to hospital 10 days ago.....no wheeze so sent home with cough linctus!!!! Back at Dr's yesterday as was so bad with coughing yesterday morning I was vomiting. Dr has now put me on Montelukast to see if allergies are making it flair up fingers crossed.....I'm worn out but still trying to work.

[gailmary in reply to Lisa_G]

I'm on montelucast and it worked wonders for me

[Tugun]

Hi,

Yes I get a silent wheeze which is quite common for me now after I had a very severe chest virus. I had thought all doctors knew about but realise now that they don't. I was turned away from one doctor ("Turned away" might not be the correct term but it is how I felt - totally alone) who listened to my chest and couldn't hear a wheeze so assumed I was alright - even though I told him I couldn't breathe. He sent me away with nothing - telling me I had a virus, so medication was not going to help. (It was highly likely at this stage that bacteria had also set in.) This particular "virus" took 2 months to get over - 2 months off work and 18 months of having to sleep raised up and during those first two months I had to put my alarm on (initially every hour) just so I would wake up in time to take Ventolin before my lungs closed over and I couldn't take in the Ventolin (which is what happened the night before I saw the doctor - a very scary experience). I am now a 100% better but always on alert.

Maybe we need to ask the medical schools to teach more on this subject.

[Mjteayly]

Thank you for telling me about your expiriance I totally agree would be better if a few more doctors where aware of this

[Supergrangran]

I did some research on this having had the need to call out a doctor who said ...I cannt hear any air sounds coming in or out your lungs and am at a loss as to why that should be. She pulled a face and left me with antibiotics and left telling me if I didnt feel any better then I had to get an ambulance to hospital. In short I was 2 hours in resus and a night on HDU and it turns out that this is potentially falat part of asthma and means that the small sacs within the lungs are so choked that you literally are getting no air to your vital organs like your heart etc. Please google this and read for yourself and do not take things as read these doctors seriously dont know everything and they dont all take the time to look and see what is in front of them. I had dystonia, asthma and a chest infection all going on at the same time and was left at home.I have never known pain like it and ended up having a seizure in resus. this is like really dangerous guys!...

[Logical1966]

I had a silent wheeze too scared me to death no normal asthma indicators just straight to very tight chest hands turned blue though. the doctor in a and e said he couldn’t hear anything going in or out and it was silent wheeze I’ve had asthma for 40+ years never anything like this before.

I was sent home from a and e and told to see my GP who had never heard of silent asthma or wheeze but I ended up going back to a and e the next morning only this time I was admitted for a month

My peak flow didn’t work as I couldn’t get a reading I’d been well for a few months prior it happened out of the blue

My oxygen saturation was very low too

What caused it is anyone’s guess the specialist I saw originally certainly didn’t she was useless luckily I rang the asthma uk nurses who explained what silent asthma is ( I was in hospital when I rang) as I’d repeatedly asked the doctor and was just fobbed off