lifetime dealing with asthma

[craigwilliams]

Been living with asthma for 50 years the steroids over the years have caused a afib condition Everytime I catch a cold I'm short of breath don't do well in cold weather

[Carakraft]

Hi Craig

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Living with your asthma! Cold weather or Spring blooms can trigger my asthma...

[tjlabey]

similar experience here in that I can only assume sporadic steroid courses and a couple brief hospitalizations leading up to my first emergency intubation at age 58 last spring has left it's mark, although I know nothing of afib last week my new pulmolnologist informed me I have "brittle asthma" and its time to give my condition serious respect. I was 5 the first time I landed in the hospital and put in an oxygen tent. It was the early '60s and there was no such thing as HMOs or for that matter rescue inhalers until I was in my early 30's. Now advancements and understandng are coming fast and furious but I gotta wonder how much damage was done during the interim decades when I had a diagnosis of "mild persistent asthma, well controlled."