Does anyone wheeze more when breathing in than out? My wheeze has been audible lately and I feel like I’m straining a lot more to get air in than out. My doctor ruled out vocal cord dysfunction at one point so I don’t think it’s that...
I am so sick of being in this flare! I’m thinking it’s the ragweed but man I have been a mess for weeks now! :/
Not personally but I know lungs can be funky and can do weird stuff, like randomly start doing stuff even if ruled out 😅. It may ‘just’ be that your wheeze is more audible to the ears on the in breath (but maybe lungs noisy on out breath but you can’t hear without steth)... however if you feel like you’re triggering from cold/infection/allergy I know they can change up how you present too 🙄
Personally I’ve found that I can have an audible wheeze (out), which responds to salb really well, however have a clear lung field and no VCD/ILO etc (spec con checked me whilst symptomatic), so who knows what goes on there 🤷♀️😅... love how much our lungs like to confuse us 😂 (I now just tell everyone I sound worst than I am, and it’s when you hear nothing that you should be worried, esp as my lung field rarely wheezes... I sometimes thing my throat or wherever has learnt how to produce a wheeze to stop the ‘no wheeze no asthma’ comments from docs 😅)
I hope things clear up for you soon...
Hi Emma. Loved the comment “lungs can be funky” what the dickens mine are doing at the moment I have no idea. Happy then not happy. I find myself shouting “make your mind up!” I know for certain if I go to GP they will be in happy mode. They always are.
Hi Hilary. I just wheeze, inhale and exhale. I understand how frustrating it is to be stuck in a flare. I was improving during late July and August. I’m all over the place again. I know that we all understand how tiring asthma flares can be.
As I understand it, ( I'm not a medic, just an old asthma sufferer) the problem is this: On the way down the windpipe, tiny hairs called cilia (say: SILL-ee-uh) move gently to keep mucus and dirt out of the lungs. The air then goes through the series of branches in your lungs, through the bronchi and the bronchioles. However, in asthma, when your lungs are inflamed and clogged with mucus, they make life difficult, because they point downwards. You breathe in, and they go further downwards, flattening a bit, you breathe out, and they're pushed up and trap the mucus. Yelling helps the breath out a bit, oddly enough. The reason it's hard to breathe in is because your lungs are already full of air - you have to get some out before you can get new air in.
I realise this is no practical help at all, but it might explain a bit about how you feel.
I find if I do deep breathing, I find it difficult to get all the air out. I have a couple of deep breaths then have to do several very quick breaths to make up for the gasping. My specialist did say that my exhale wasn’t as efficient as my inhale both are below par however.
Very helpful and interesting thank you!!
Reluctant to call for help.
Has anyone else got non wheezing asthma?
Asthma without wheezing
Can’t take much more :-(
Swollen throat
