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Before I answer that question, I will take you back to the year 2015 when I was diagnosed. However, it all started back in 2013 when I was at work and suddenly got a strong and persistent cough that lasted for more than 20 minutes.

I then noticed that whenever I was at work I had a cough sometimes accompanied by a lung secretion. When I was at home everything was fine.

In 2015 I decided to do some research because I wanted to find out what was causing the cough and the secretions that were being released more frequently when coughing.

Then the physicians took x-rays of me. Then the doctor prescribed me an antibiotic which I didn't take. Then I visited a pneumologist who examined me. A little later the doctors told me I had asthma after the bronchoconstriction methacholine test and the asthma was caused by infectious pneumonia, but I didn't take the antibiotic.

Why did this happen? I found out that I had a non-eosinophilic type of asthma which was related to my profession - welder. So after that nobody cared to prove the occupational origin of the disease.

At one point I was left with just the diagnosis but missing the allergen. There were no additional tests but asthma remained as a diagnosis which created many obstacles to work due to the restrictions.

A year later the asthma became more complicated and even more symptoms appeared. They were a consequence of the choices I had made, not the disease itself. When I looked back in time I realised that I didn't need to do so much research and lost many job offers.

And I after that I took many different decisions that changed the game. I had any symptoms, and additionally I got a job as welder and the welding fumes did not trigger any bronchospasms. There were not any symptoms that I had before at the same environment. So is asthma curable?

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The straight answer is that asthma is not curable, but children can outgrow it, and you can manage it, often very successfully.

I have non eosonophilic asthma that hates dust, pollen etc. So if I can avoid what irritates my Asthma, my Asthma disappears.

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I agree with this. Though children who have apparently grown out of their asthma should be aware that it can still come back - and of course not all children do grow out of it (I know you weren't saying they all do, Homely2, but just emphasising the point because I was so oblivious myself when it came back worse! I'm actually not sure it ever went away in my case.) I agree that most people can manage it, though for some it may take longer to find what works.

Messagetoyou, I also have non-eosinophilic, non-allergic asthma, which in my case isn't related to my job. Could it be that it isn't welding as such, but something in the environment at your original job that was setting it off that isn't there now? Do you use more/better respiratory protection now, or perhaps there's better ventilation?

I know nothing about welding or the safety regulations, but I have had office jobs that are more or less adherent to rules about disability so I wonder if some companies are more careful about the working environment than others in your line of work.

Or perhaps your lungs were especially twitchy after having pneumonia and have settled down more now?

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