Hi there.
I am from Spain. I've been diagnosed with alergic asthma when I was 4-5 years old. Now I am 37.
I also have anxiety, and my nose it's most of the time blocked in one of both holes, or both sometimes. Using Avamys for this, but don't seem to do anything. A nasal band aid works better for me...
My treatment was: Seretide 25/125 + ventolin on demand + singulair 4mg. Cetirizine in the case of alergic. I started seretide in 2011.
But my problem is that usually I have a lot of mucus from my chest. I don't have cough, but I use to cough in order to expell the mucus when having a shower. However, I suffer chest infections constantly. Last 6 months, I had 3 bronchitis with yellow/green mucus.
And 2018, and 2017...And they don't seem to care about.
The doctors give me antibiotics and prednisone, and then it's goes away. But suddenly, appears again a few weeks later. They have made me 2 chest radiographs in two diffent occasions, and everything seems to be fine.
I starting to think that the use of steroids is causing to me the infections.
However I feel that I need those steroids in order to avoid the crisis. When I was younger I had 3 crisis per year. But from 2011, I never had a bad crisis (to be hospitalized or be unable to breath, or a red line peak flow), and I reduced the use of my ventolin, mostly the first years of treatment.
I don't know if it's important to comment, but sometimes I have gastric reflux (sometimes I experience shortness of breath after eating)...
My height it's 168cm with 75 kilograms (I was 100kg 1 year ago...I lost a lot of weight going to the gym). And my PEF it's 525 (my best). I don't know if it's good or not. I am not a tall guy...
When I have a crisis, my PEF goes down to 400-450. It's not dramatic (still on my green/yellow line) , but I feel a lot the variation. Sometimes I think it's part of my anxiety, about the sensation. My Oxygen it's always fine, 96-99%.
My doctor has changed my treatment a few times, upgrading the seretide to 25/250 2-0-2 puffs, and then the last month to 50/500 with 1-0-1 puffs.
But viewing that my breathing sensations were not very good for me (and I have to use my ventolin too much), now I am starting with Symbicort. I am not very confident about, because the dosage its Symbicort 80/4.5...It's strange for me to go from the stronger seretide, to the lower symbicort.
They told me that it's possible to use it like the ventolin if I need, like a reliever. The normal treatment is 2-0-2. In that case, I don't understand the medical prescription inside my public health card. In the chemist they give me one symbicort per month...So, how it works if I have to use more than 2-0-2?It's supposed I should have more than 1 symbicort per month, right?
The 22/08 i have to make a test blowing a machine, spirometry (I made it one when I was a child, ages ago)...and then I want to visit a neumologist. But here in Spain, all the tests, everything, it's too slow...Meanwhile, here I am suffering...I am not in a critical condition, but I am not happy at all with my life due to that. I use to go to the gym, run (not a lot really, half an hour, with a moderate intensity), and I was improving my phisical. But everything it's blowing away because of my asthma.
Thank you for reading me.
P.D: I never have smoked.