What symptoms have impacted your daily life the most?

[CalvinHU]

Has your asthma improved or worsened over time?

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[Carakraft]

I feel very fortunate that there are more targeted medications for my asthma that have made a huge impact and improvement for me. Also, knowing my triggers and what to try to avoid! My cough is the hardest on me. Especially when cold air is blowing my way...it is can be exhausting!

[Beasley63]

The coughing and clearing my throat from being irritated by irritants. My workplace was causing me a lot of issues due to the fact that I worked so closely with the public and our office space was so small. I would really have a lot of flareups when people would come in the office with perfume on or the cleaning lady would put those plugins in the hallway on a daily basis. I finally give my job up. I am doing much better. I still have days where I have shortness of breath sometimes. But overall I am better. I know that I will always have to try to avoid my triggers.

[birdlover18]

I have a near-constant wheeze upon exhale which although I feel okay and am breathing comfortably, it’s annoying and sometimes audible to other people which is embarrassing. My medicines have greatly reduced the need for me to use my nebulizer and even my rescue inhaler, I barely ever feel tight chested or have a severe wheeze anymore. For me, the worst asthma symptom is having a feeling of chest congestion a lot of the time, and that when I get sick (like I am now) it takes longer for me to recover because of my asthma.

[Hidden]

I’ve only had it about four years but it seems to be getting worse. I’m back in intensive care. This attack was the worst I’ve had and it happened in the car. Where can I go? Can I take enough time to keep the car safe? I wasn’t far from home so I turned back, continuously judging whether I was safe to drive. I did get home safely and called 911. By the time I got there I had a silent chest and the paramedic kept insisting that I was having a panic attack, something that just doesn’t happen to me.

I’d been sucking on my rescue inhaler and in the ambulance something opened up enough to wheeze. THEM he got it and immediately gave me solumedrol and Duoneb.

This is the worst flare I’ve had and it came on faster than it has in the past.

[FearNot in reply to Hidden]

I hate panic attacks. You're fortunate not to have them more.

[FearNot]

Coughing is hardest on a daily basis. Besides being physically taxing, it's disruptive. I might have to interrupt myself while cooking to get a tissue and wash my hands or go outside at a meeting. Sometimes I feel like I'm strangling, but that happens less often, the more I work on my health.

[pmh18623]

The fatigue has impacted my life the most. Over the past 21 years, my asthma has been sporadic, with occasional flares, but the past 4 months has been exhausting.

I am grateful not to have the severe asthma some do, but it has worsened.

[Minushabens Asthma Captain]

It's changed for me as years pass by. When I was a child, it was not being able to run around with my mates (as I've mentioned on other posts, I was refused inhalers by my GP until I was about 8). As a young adult, with still very badly controlled symptoms, I always used to struggle with pubs (this was pre-smoking ban days) & my student partying took a hit!

My asthma did get under control, but has deteriorated since I turned 50, & now I'd say the coughing & fatigue is the biggest issue. I feel quite weak in my bones (probably steroids) a lot of the time & can't really run or exercise at all these days, although I don't generally feel too bad in myself.

[Bobcat_44]

I’ve only had asthma for four years, so it's hard to tell. In the begining it took 6 months to achieve control, now I live almost symptoms-free, but not long ago I had an awful flare caused by smoke and I had been on 64mg of methylprednisolone for 4 weeks.

[lee99]

It’s hard to tell, when it flares up it’s horrible and I wonder if i’ll ever feel better again. But luckily there is good medication available to get it back under control. I find as time goes on I am getting better at understanding the triggers.

[Asthmasucks777]

I've had alot of chest pressure, and struggle to get breathe. It been a life altering event.

[Carakraft in reply to Asthmasucks777]

It is a life altering event.

[Midnightkitty]

My asthma problem has greatly improved since I moved away from the Southern state where I lived my entire life. I moved possibly too far north - I will need to see how the extreme cold effects me, but so far, more than "so good".

The intense heat with the high humidity factor and 105 " in the shade" that was common for several months of the year, was literally killing me. Often I was gasping for air outside because I felt I couldn't breathe in enough 'oxygen. I felt smothered.

Asthma medications made me so nervous with so much anxiety I just relied on my rescue inhaler and tried to avoid triggers when I could.

I haven't waked up once gasping for breath since I moved and I am thankful for that too.

Asthma is a frightening disease

[Georgexray]

Mine has got worse over the last two years it was well controlled until then but I’ve been getting chest infections around this time of year it seems.

First time on BH Monday I needed hospital treatment to be nebulised it’s taken from then until this week for it to settle with 2 rounds of Prednisolone and antibiotics plus a new inhaler to compliment the other two😖.

[Asthmasucks777]

The trouble breathing, and constant weight on chest. Also when it effects my sleeping.