Hello!
I had really poorly controlled asthma for a while until I was diagnosed with Addison's a few years ago. Now it mostly behaves itself (on seretide and tiotropium and montelukast) except during pollen season when I need extra oral steroids and regular abx.
One of the fab things is that I can now run even in cold weather. In the past I couldn't even leave the house in cold weather, but now I take my salbutamol 10-20 minutes before I run and I'm fine... until I stop running.
It doesn't matter whether I run for 25 minutes (3 miles) or 90 minutes (10 miles) - it's all fine while I'm running, and then the minute I stop running I start to tighten up and cough and cough. Initially I thought it was the change in temperature and humidity from coming inside, but I've now tried staying outside and walking until my heart rate is totally normal, and it still happens.
I am under the severe/difficult asthma clinic at hospital so I can send a message to my consultant but I just wondered if anyone else has this issue? They're not very severe attacks but as I run 4-5 times per week it does mean that I'm having 4-5 attacks each week, which isn't ideal, and I've had a couple of bad-ish attacks in the last two weeks from allergic triggers, which suggests my lungs are becoming less and less happy.
Any suggestions / thoughts?
Thanks!
Hi
I used to be like this after swimming. Absolutely fine in the pool and swim 1-2 km. Get out and go in jacuzzi....massive asthma attack. Didn't seem to make any difference whether I'd had Salbutamol or not. Decided it was combination of change in temperature and chemicals in jacuzzi but never really got to the bottom of it!
Well done on the running though; fab achievement. Have you always been a runner? How did you get started?
Thanks! I've always done a bit of running - mostly for fitness as I played football in my teens and 20s, but I got into running itself after my asthma became horrible a few years ago. I could only exercise inside and a treadmill seemed the sensible thing... then I really enjoyed it, and my asthma stabilised so I went outdoors and found that I love it and I'm not bad at it
Parkrun really helped to build my confidence, and now I do 10ks / half-marathons. I did a 7k night trail run in sleet last weekend - no asthma til the coffee shop afterwards
I think you're right about the temperature - see my reply below for my planned trial solution - hopefully it might work for you too.