Today I have had a new experience. Any attacks, bar mini ones, have always built up over a day or two or three, but today I had that experience that many others know only too well. Due to roasting a bird, lighting candles that were then blown out, and candles that were left burning, it suddenly happened. Coughing, of course, and feeling really short of breath and unwell. For a moment I thought I would end up needing help, but 7 puffs of Ventolin later it started to lift and I became a bit more human again. Since then I couldn’t wait to get to bed due to exhaustion.
/This is a new experience for me, so sudden and so significant. I can’t say I liked it! And, for me, beware of anything burning!
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Glad that you are recovering 😊 Not a pleasant experience for you at all, I experience a quick freefall with candles/firepits. Am sure someone much cleverer than me will know the reason for this fast drop down rather than the usual warnings in place. Hope that you have a steady nights rest x
Yes, so far so good. Anything burney irritates my airways, including toast/toasting, and normally I can keep a safe distance, but this time my guard was down. It is quite useful to know it can happen so that I am more careful in the future. I am assuming it is the PMs that are produced from burning and this time it just became too high a concentration of them. I also often react on wood burners, and my own cooking!
I was at a friends house a few weeks back and they had a log burner, I distinctively remember my friend opening it for all of a few seconds to put a fresh log in, and I immediately felt it in my chest and throat. So weird. Glad you’re feeling better. Try having a room where you can keep a window/a open perhaps.
Unfortunately cold air is also one of the things that irritate my airways, so I air the room before bed, leave the door slightly ajar and at warmer times of the year have a window elsewhere opened. It is also complicated by the fact that my husband has hayfever which can get bad and open windows can add to that in summer.
Yeah, I also get that weird chest feeling from things burning. My weirdest is that I do it with bread being toasted! But I also get it with my own cooking at times.
I used to always have a huge candle burning over Christmas. Now I can’t have scented candles in the house at all and even the smell from indented ones can make me breathless.
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