Hello,
I'll try to keep it short. I've had moderate asthma since I was about 5, I take flutiform, montelukast and an antihistamine daily along with a steroid nasal spray. I've never been diagnosed with excercise induced asthma and never had problems with excercise but to be honest that's probably because I only ever did gentle excercise in the past.
However I have lost 9st 2lbs in the last two years and have began to excercise regards for the last six months about 4/5 times a week, swimming and weights. I still have a few stone to go tho.
I have recently had a chest infection and glandular fever which did knock me back abit and wasn't able to excercise for about a month. I have recently decided to start running along with my other excercise and have found that when I hit my peak heart rate and am doing intense excercise I get sharp stabbing pains in my chest and a wheeze I'm not sure if this is the asthma but after I've finished excercise and rest it goes away. It did happen whilst I was swimming quite intensely once (after a nightshift) and I have noticed that it only it happens if I do intense cardio after my night shift (more often than not I do my cardio after a ten hour night shift). Does this sound like excercise induced asthma? Anyone experience anything like this? (To be honest I have definitely missed my regular inhaler a few times recently too)
I don't think it's heart related as my BP is fine after loosing weight, and recently when I was ill with glandular fever I was hospitalised with a high pulse and dehydration and had two ECGs which were both normal, and was determined to just be down to dehydration and the nasty virus.
Obviously I will book in with the doctor but might be a long wait for a routine appointment.
Anyone have any advice?
Thanks in advance