wont use my ventolin because of my health anxiety

[ash160808]

So everytime my throat gets proper tight i know in my head i should use my ventolin i dont purely because my anxiety worries that if it doesnt work what then?? So i suffer through it, knowing i have a fail safe if all else fails but i never want to use it.

I am back in therapy now for my anxiety but does anyone else worry aboyut what if the ventolin doesnt work

[Chip_y2kuk]

I've taken ventolin and it hasn't worked... I've taken it again and it was empty... the progression was luckily slow and I ignored it (I got a new inhaler later on that day as I had one at home but it was too late at that point it was only lasting a few hours) I went to my gp the day later got a telling off and a course of steroids... and told the next time I'm taking ventolin and it's not lasting 45 mins (which it wasnt) it's a medical emergency and I'm not to wait....whooops

[Junglechicken in reply to Chip_y2kuk]

I did something similar. I had two asthma attacks in one day a few hours apart which I controlled at home. I took 5 puffs of salbutamol followed by another 5 a few hours later. Told my GP the next day and apparently I should have gone to A and E.

[Chip_y2kuk in reply to Junglechicken]

I got proper told off by a gp I've gone too for years.. I had had a reducing peak flow for a day or so ventolin wasn't lasting more than 45mins to an hour and I had had puff after puff gp said to me when did you last have ventolin I said 45 mins ago he said I can hear an audible wheeze where you say it hurts.. you need steroids and the proceeded to tell me about medical emergencies and this being one

[Superzob]

Surely, you won't know if something is not going to work if you don't try it? I'm always anxious about trying new meds - some work and others don't, but that's just how it is with almost everybody. If it's any help, Ventolin is about the safest product you can use, up to 8 puffs a day. If it doesn't work then you can always ask your GP for something else - there are scores of alternatives. As my GP says: "it's big business", and pharmaceutical companies make a fortune out of asthma.

[sweetAlfie]

in my experience with both asthma and migraine I find Anxiety tells me lies, so now I try to listen to reason, not easy but it works better for me👍🏻