When were you first diagnosed with Asthma?

[CalvinHU]

What triggered the diagnosis?

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[Asthmagirl100]

I couldn’t breathe one day and went to the Er.

[kdr112]

I started getting sinus infections about once every other month with what lead to bronchitis...I thought. I was also short of breath and had a cardiac work up. All was normal. Then the wheezing and spasmodic coughing started. I was diagnosed with severe asthma. Two years later and I am still fighting it!

[sssstephanie7_]

I was having trouble taking a decent breath where I felt like I was taking in enough air. I was diagnosed with quite a few allergies and also had some asthma testing done. I was diagnosed quite a few years ago.

[Putnam Asthma Captain]

1954, 4 years old, after a bout of pneumonia.

[Carakraft]

I was diagnosed when I was a child...always coughing!

[rafester]

I'm 59 now and and I think I was 4 or 5 yrs old when I first remember having an Asthma attattack.

[Lisa_H]

I started having shortness of breath, coughing, wheezing and anxiety attacks. I was unable to sleep through the night for weeks. I ended up at quick care 3 times in less then a month. First I was given anti anxiety and cough meds, then prednisone and ventolin but the symptoms never eased. On the 3rd visit the Dr told me he thought it was asthma after a breathing treatment helped the coughing. I went to an allergist and had testing done and was diagnosed with asthma about six months ago.

[Gigionthehill]

I went to the doctor in March of 2016 (same as I had in March of 2015) due to my allergies being out of control. This time the prednisone burst did not take care of it and I became short of breath with any activity at all and at rest. I was sent to an asthma/ allergy specialist and diagnosed with asthma. I was 46.

[Cherylquinn]

I had bronchitis 5 times in 14 months. Each time it took weeks to get better. My doc gave me an asthma test. I was shocked. I never thought of myself having an attack but stayed sick all the time. When tested I was allergic to everything outside!

[Mahod Asthma Captain]

I was diagnosed 2 years ago. I had double pneumonia after a bout with bronchitis that did not respond to oral treatment. I had a wheezy cough and difficulty breathing prior to the bronchitis, off and on for several months. It was thought to be seasonal allergies with bronchitis, as I had been told for years.

This time spastic coughing grew worse and was hospitalized. Pulmonary doc called, he suspected asthma. Tests for asthma after pneumonia resolved, proved positive. I responded to asthma meds in hospital for spastic cough.

[Robin77]

I was 30. Lived at the time in a cold city with terrible air quality. Life-time history of severe chest infections, never taken seriously. After one such bout I just couldn't breathe properly. They did some tests and said I was allergic. Took some years before I was properly diagnosed and treated. I was under-informed, doctors were fond of fanciful diagnoses like spastic bronchitis.

[fibroglow]

I was about 2 years old then tested for Cystic Fibrosis when 8!years old. Now had Diagnosed Bronchiectasis with Asthma! After CT Scan confirmed both Lungs affected..

[Putnam Asthma Captain]

Hospitalization from pneumonia.

[Suspect1]

I was finding it hard to grasp for breath. It took me a while then I went to the Drs who gave me a blue inhaler and it’s got worse through the years from then

[rvstitcher]

I was 5 months pregnant with my 3rd child. I complained to my ob gyn that I was having trouble breathing. She dismissed it as just the baby pushing on my lungs. She didn't even listen to my lungs with a stethoscope. Two days later I was so bad I ended up in ER & admitted for a week. I was told I have asthma. Two months later a cold caused me to be hospitalized again for asthma and then the baby had to be taken out prematurely . My poor breathing caused the baby to go into distress. That 1st yr of asthma I was in the hospital 5 times for a total of 6 weeks.

[krazy-girl]

Exercise and Obesity in 1996

[kait109]

I was in fifth grade and kept a sinus infection. I got allergy tested and went on allergy shots and while they were at it they did a lung function test and determined that I had asthma

[Mamel]

I was 53 yrs old when first diagnosed as having asthma. My pulmonologist said that I had been suffering through episodes for a number of years before that but had just been undiagnosed. Every winter I would get so sick with coughing and trouble breathing and had just thought it was allergies.