Coping with Asthma

[yorkieiron]

As some of you may know, I write a blog about Asthma and my latest piece is about what I do to cope with my asthma and dealing with asthma attacks. There are a few things that I do which seem to help, they are only small things but they work for me. What I would like to do is add things to the blog that other people do which they find helpful. If you have any pearls of wisdom or techniques that you use could you please post them on here or on my blog.

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[elanaoali]

Add to your recommendation is the good and faith hot water bottle not only for the sore chest but general comfort and add aid to sleep.

Audio books are very soothing when you are wide awake during taking a course of rescue steroids. My favourite is any thing that's read in a mono toned voice e.g a Cat named Bod one of the most sufferic books I ever come across. My app congratulations me when I finished and I missed most of the book because I been asleep.

[Wheezycat]

I have just read your asthma blog. Great! Some good ideas. Especially I like your asthma bible thing.

We are all different, though, so my additional comment is that, no, I don’t (yet) have confidence in myself. I have a track record not noticing that things were not right - or, perhaps rather a mixture of genuinely not noticing, and on those occasions when I did dismissing it as I otherwise felt like a whimp. A friend, who is a doctor, in the end read me the riot act. This was obviously before things got acutely worse, such times I do notice. I believe it is quite common for people, not just me, whose asthma creeps up on them to not notice or realise. You sort of learn to live with it. It has affected me in so far I still don’t wholly trust myself, leaving me feeling on the one hand I perhaps dismiss some issues, on the other I risk becoming a bit hypochondriac, fearing things I don’t need to fear. It is hard work!

[angievere]

Good read yorkieiron. You are on a lot of meds. xx

[shirl13]

Like yourself I am on multiple medications. Prednisolone 20mg maintenance dose daily (since 1991), phyllocontin, ranitidine, co-dydramol, tramadol, Adcal D3, Alendronic Acid, Montelukast, Atorvastatin, Losartin, Amitryptiline, Carbocisteine, Lantus, Novorapid, Flixotide, Salbutamol, Ultibro. I have my daily routine of getting all meds ready in the morning then have my cup of coffee (I place this on my chest to help breathing). I too have my scarf ready for if I go out. I have been asthmatic for 50 years so can get quite blase about it, but what does annoy me is if somebody says oh I have asthma too, I have to carry a blue inhaler with me just in case. Oh how I wish for the days when that was all I had to do. Sorry to moan but my other bugbear is when people panic and I am just say there regulating my breathing "oh my god you're wheezing" Yes I permanently wheeze. Danger point is when I stop wheezing and cannot get air in and out. Best advice learn to know your asthma and don't panic yourself it only makes matters worse