I am having a bad time controlling both Hayfever and asthma together....I'm trying different medications given from phramacies to handle my Hayfever so my asthma doesnt over rule me. I normally have asthma in cold conditions, foggy, damp and Hayfever comes along in the spring all way through summer time. These few days I never felt this bad since I was a child. However I live alone and when I call my famly about how I feel they just nod it off oh it's Hayfever deal with it when then seem to always dismiss my asthma and how bad I feel. It isn't just ""nose running"" and ""stiflfles""! I get chest pains, wheezyness, continously coughing and dizziness (sometimes).
Anyway all I'm saying is, is anyone else in the same position of people not understanding your conditions?
Yep exact same position. When I was laying in intensive care my mum asked 'Whats wrong with you?' while I was having nebs and she just could not understand along with customers from work.
I've been having a really bad attack for the last couple of months and ended up in hospital, and when I told my mother she was like ""but you were just fine why did you have to go to the hospital??""
Also, I trained as a chaplain, and I was amazed when my closest co-worker (also a chaplain) came up to my floor, which was ICU (I live in the states) and said ""Yeah I was with my friend's wife yesterday at a picnic, and the barbaque set off her asthma and now she's intubated. Does that happen?""
I just looked at him. This is the guy who had been sharing a cubicle work space with me for a year, and I was thinking ""Yeah you don't get it and you've been with me this whole year! Wow that's scary!
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