Montelukast and peakflow.

[Wheezycat]

My asthma is treating me gently just now, long may it continue. It is not quite perfect, but no worries. One odd thing I have noticed recently is that my pf often is slightly higher am than pm. It has to be said I mostly don’t do my pf until mid am. There are reasons, but not necessarily good ones.

As we are mostly advised I take my Montelukast at night. Could it be that that improves my am pf, but the effect is gone after 24 hrs?

As said I am fine, but warily testing going for walks in the cold as I had lots of problems last year. Thus I am noticing my pf more, and generally being more aware.

[Troilus]

Like you, Wheezycat my mid morning pf is usually the highest, not always, but mostly. This has always been the case with me, even before I started on Montelukast. I take it about 8pm and my last peak flow about 10:30, so I would think it is starting to take effect by then.

I have always just thought this is the way it is because of varies through the day, I think, maybe 😀

[Wheezycat in reply to Troilus]

So, not just me then. It is not always, and my memory is that it mostly varies the ‘normal’ way round, but now not so much. I had big problems going for walks last winter, and though I am now on higher meds, I am wary where this winter will take me. I do all the usual with scarves etc and I am also training myself to remember take Ventolin before venturing out. Last winter could leave me exhausted for hours after walking outside, so I don’t want to go there again. Thus I am now studying my pf closely. Etc. Just want to pin down what helps and what doesn’t. By the way, summer time is a doddle.

[oldwheezie in reply to Wheezycat]

How strange that you prefer Summer! I hated this Summer it was so hot and close I couldn't bree the. I much prefer the crisp fresh air of Autumn and a frosty winter.

[Wheezycat in reply to oldwheezie]

Yeah, we are all different. Cold air spells troubled and I find it difficult to go for walks etc, though I am working on ways of improving it. However, I grew up in a very northern climate, well north of north Scotland, with lots of snow and all that. And we enjoyed the outdoors all year round. I seem to have lost that, sadly.