Shortness Of Breath

[hollie_x]

So basically every so often (every couple of weeks) I become short of breath, like I can’t get enough air in my lungs. I do have issues with anxiety so sometimes I feel like it may be triggered by that.

I take my blue inhaler and after about ten minutes I bring up lots of phlegm, and I’m bringing it up for about twenty minutes until its all gone. After this, I can breathe fine so my blue inhaler is obviously working.

I have no problems with my asthma in everyday life and its well controlled. The only time it gets bad is when I’m ill. I was just wondering why this may happen. I take the brown inhaler (100mg) twice morning and night. Am I just an asthmatic that produces lots of phlegm.

[Troilus]

Perhaps you need a change of preventer? I had a similar thing two summers ago. The getting out of breath was worrying, but like you say, once I had had a good cough I was ok until the next time. I thought it was hayfever, so I changed my antihistamine and also took a decongestant, which helped a bit. It settled after about a week.

When I mentioned it to my GP ( six months later!) he said it sounded like it had been an asthma cough.

Might be worth giving him a ring.

[Poobah]

Sounds like phlegm is causing the breathing problem. It's not ideal to let the problem to persist as it could become a bacterial infection if left untreated.

We are experiencing very high pollen levels so hayfever maybe the root cause, especially if you haven't had a temperature.

Have a chat with your GP about treatment.

[Busterrusty]

Iam suffering with shortness of breath iam now on montelukast 10 ml a day been on them 2 weeks helps a bit I take blue in inhaler when needed and brown inhaler twice a day also have a green one I take twice a day keep well and safe