Asthma and Bronchiectasis

[Beasley63]

I was diagnosed with Severe Asthma in 2017 at age 54. This March I got diagnosed with Bronchiectasis. I was wondering if anyone else has been diagnosed with this.

[Collienut]

I was diagnosed with asthma at 24 and then bronchiectasis at 30.

Occasionally, bronchiectasis can be misdiagnosed as asthma, but my consultant confirmed that I do have both asthma and bronchiectasis (why have one when you can have two knackering lung conditions 😂). The bronchiectasis probably goes back to having pneumonia at three months old and whooping coughing 15, plus bronchitis almost every month throughout my childhood.

The diagnosis was scary to start with, but I'm pretty well controlled now (I'm now in my 50s) and know which is playing me up and what to do. Sometimes it's as simple as having to make sure I rest when I'm starting to feel unwell. 😊

[Beasley63 in reply to Collienut]

Thank you for your reply, Over the last few years I have had a lot of bronchitis too. I had it in February and could not get rid of the mucus. Just cough and could hardly get it up. Always a barky cough. Sometimes dry and some days mucusy. Waiting on results from sputum test to see what kind of bacteria they need to treat. Have been coughing every day for months. So hard.