I’m a huge fan of hot, sunny days but my asthma thinks otherwise...booooo!
With the pollen count being so high, it’s making me hypersensitive to all of my other triggers. As the day is going on, I can feel myself starting to slow down and getting more breathless...ugh!
Yup! Taken a real turn for the worse overnight and throughout today. I do hope you keep ok and wish you well for over the weekend.
Going to have to be one of those putting the feet up and not straying far from the nebuliser weekends I think! X
I watered the garden last night and then tried to tidy it. I became breathless and exhausted and my husband said I looked ill when he came in. It was just too hot and humid.
Yes yes yes. Never suffered like this during the summer before. I could feel my symptoms getting worse and managed to get an emergency appointment at our doctors. I’ve been given a course of steroids and altered my inhaler dosage and I feel 100% better. Please don’t leave it. Go and see somebody if you need to. Asthma is risky.
Before last summer, I had never been triggered by weather, only ever from illness or an allergic reaction. From what I’ve read, the last few summers have made a lot of unsuspecting asthmatics suffer. I wish I could rewind the clock to 3 years ago when I was rarely troubled by my lungs 🤷🏽♀️
I’m glad you doctor was able to prescribe you what you needed and it’s great to hear that you’re feeling a lot better 
Yes I’m struggling
Yes, I am struggling today. Making me so restless.
struggling too
I thought I’d dodged conveniently dodged a bullet with the weather today but my asthma has just hit me like a tonne of bricks. I knew it was too good to be true.
I hope you’re all keeping well!
As you know, I had a really frightening attack yesterday, and that came out of the blue.
We'd been doing some tidying of dead twigs & branches the day before, and if I felt a little out of breath, I'd stop for a while.
Yesterday was too hot, and I decided I'd be better inside with cooler air. I was only out for a minute with my coffee when the dog caused me to lunge to catch her, and that caused the terrible breathing attack. Never known anything like it - not at all what I thought an asthma attack was!
Seems even being aware, and wary, isn't enough sometimes.
Unlike me, I’m currently still in bed. I woke this morning feeling breathless and my peak flow (which rarely moves) has dropped to 84% which I think is a warning sign- it might not sound significant to most people but even when I’m experiencing a bad flare, my peak flow is always really good and hovered around 95%
My plan for the day is to meet a friend for a coffee shortly and then it’ll be back to bed to continue resting.
After your attack yesterday, it’s made me respect my symptoms a lot more and to listen to my body, rather than fight it and keep carrying on.
I hope you’re feeling a lot better today?
Yes, I've had an unpleasant 'wake up' as to just how terrifying it can be.
Wasn't what I expected an asthma attack to be really (I'd thought it was bad breathing causing a person to sit down and try to control it, and the asthma attack is when it couldn't be controlled).
In a sense that's what happened, but so much worse in that sitting, standing, bending, had no effect, and I suspect that each gasping minute made it even worse.
I'm still finding bruises and painful bits where I must have banged into things when trying to grasp a hold on the situation.
I certainly have more respect for this condition and it's possibilities!
I'm just glad to have seen today, and definitely feeling better than yesterday thank you. Hopefully better again by tomorrow. Got a lot of aches & pains and tiredness today.
Hope you enjoy your outing for coffee!
First experience of heat affecting my asthma I was really washed out and breathless. Living on my own I decided if my time was up I would go in comfort. Spent 5 hours on top of bed just waiting for whatever.cooler today so I have improved and survived.
That feeling sounds so familiar. I hope you’re feeling better in this cooler weather today?
Luckily, my asthma is doing pretty well. It's generally my best time of year - though it feels like the pollen is worse this year. It was looking sketchy a week or so ago (for a few weeks) following a cold, I was worried I wouldn't claw it back.
Hope you feel better soon!
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