Boots

[Chip_y2kuk]

When you go to boots to collect prescriptions and they give you a carrier bag

All for a month so I can carry on breathing

Thank god for the NHS

#saveournhs #savethenhs #sickerthanilook

[Graham07allen]

Hi, nothing to do with your post but just have to say Love your flooring. Is that real wood

[Chip_y2kuk in reply to Graham07allen]

Thanks and its engineered oak.... basically ply board with a thin 7mm oak layer ontop making the whole plank like 17-18mm thick has the effect and wear of solid oak with a lower price tag

[Graham07allen in reply to Chip_y2kuk]

Looks really good. I ended up going for that lvt tile wood look, looks OK but just hasn't got that wood feel. That's alot of asthma Meds, is that just for 1 month. Is your asthma well controlled at the moment

[Chip_y2kuk in reply to Graham07allen]

This has got the wood feel as its oak its surprisingly warm in the winter too

And yes it's well controlled but it should be there isnt much more I can do apart from permanent steroids and nebulisers

[Graham07allen in reply to Chip_y2kuk]

I feel for ya. Hopefully you'll be on the mend. Did you find your asthma got worse over the summer.

[Chip_y2kuk in reply to Graham07allen]

Yes as I'm allergic to every pollen going from grass to weeds and trees too

[Peldypix in reply to Chip_y2kuk]

Me too and finding it very hard to stabilise.I usually have crisis three times a year now.

[Peldypix in reply to Graham07allen]

Sorry to hijack your conversation but my asthma was really bad in August... bronchitis...just starting to feel better..3 carrier bags of meds!

[Chip_y2kuk in reply to Peldypix]

Wow that's a lot of medication

[Junglechicken]

It is so awful that you face that every single month. I think breathing is taken for granted by non sufferers of a respiratory condition. It’s when it becomes difficult you realise how important it is. After my recent attacks, I now value every single breath, in a way I never did prior. I researched the price of the medication that I take and it would cost a lot (A Seretide 500 inhaler alone is around £40) without NHS support. I think I read somewhere that there is a high asthma death rate in the US. I’m guessing that simply because medication is just too expensive for most citizens. I fervently hope that with advancement in asthma treatment the days of carrier bags full of medication will be over. A full cure someday soon!

[Chip_y2kuk in reply to Junglechicken]

It is and I've got to be honest I forgot how hard it was being asthmatic I got away with no medication and was "asthma free" for some 7 years taking no medication at all

Now I have 5 prescriptions in a carrier bag every month to be able to breathe mostly normally

[Junglechicken in reply to Chip_y2kuk]

Asthma is a very cruel condition.

[Chip_y2kuk in reply to Junglechicken]

Tell me about it I suffer with a bad shoulder and knee and have taken ibuprofen and other prescription NSAID's on and off for it for years a few years ago I had a bad reaction that really set off my asthma now I've been told to never take any NSAID including aspirin ever again

Now I'm bound to prescription strength co-codamol and that's pretty much all i can take

[Junglechicken in reply to Chip_y2kuk]

That’s not a great situation. As usual asthma kicks you when you’re down. I hope things do start to improve for you and maybe next month the bag will be smaller.

[Chip_y2kuk in reply to Junglechicken]

No the bag will never be smaller I'm resided to that now I stopped taking everything for 6 weeks on the advice of respiratory consultant and walked out of the doctors with 8 prescriptions (thank God I have a prepayment card)... I had a nasty chest infection and was wheezing from both lungs And needed to replace everything I had stopped

[emmasue]

Know that feeling! I am just amazed at how much has changed since I was a child. I don't think I even had an inhaler until I was about 8 or 9. Steroid inhalers didn't come in until later. So much has changed. I am grateful for new treatments and the scientists who make them happen. Also those involved in the trials to make sure the new medication works.

[Junglechicken in reply to emmasue]

So true Emmasue. I’m in my late 30’s and the expectation of treatment is so much higher now. When I was a baby Junglechicken it was expected that you would always have a slight wheeze, blue every day and my neb looks so archaic now. Loved my little rotahaler, still the best. My mum didn’t get an inhaler until her 20’s and prior to that could only take a tablet when she had an attack. It took an hour to work, she almost lost her life during one attack as a teenager.

[emmasue in reply to Junglechicken]

Wow. It used to be so hard for asthmatics. My mum said she even had a spell in an artificial lung due to asthma. Fortunately, she outgrew her symptoms, but I never did.

[Junglechicken in reply to emmasue]

My mum’s asthma mellowed as she got older but in her early 40’s she contracted a nasty dose of flu. Her asthma has been poorly controlled since and that was 30 years ago

[emmasue in reply to Junglechicken]

That's horrible! Asthma is no fun.

[Junglechicken in reply to emmasue]

It’s just awful. I’m hoping I’m not headed for the same after my pneumonia this year and my asthma has got very much worse.

[emmasue in reply to Junglechicken]

I am in a similar situation. My asthma has been on a downward spiral for the past 10 he or so. But I got flu last year and I haven't been right since. I keep hoping for a break but no such luck. I am currently ok, no infections but everyone in the household has a cold except me. Can I manage not to catch it? 🙄

[Chip_y2kuk in reply to emmasue]

So true I'm 33 and when I was little they only gave children ventolin and in severe cases a course of prednisolone

It wasnt until I was 14 they gave me a brown inhaler... becotide which was the cfc propelled version of clenil which i took until i was about 19-20 and stopped everything all together and got away with that until I was 27-28

But now there is much more available combination inhalers and all kinds

I remember when I was a kid a doctor said to me " coughing is not a symptom of asthma, maybe it should be but it isnt"

Now it's a total type of asthma "cough variant"

We've learnt a lot about asthma in my 30+ years alive