Experiences with

Brittle asthma

Hi - just wondered if anyone with severe/brittle asthma has an asthma passport that they use in an emergency?

Hi I was using Relivar for few years as a preventer for Brittle Asthma. I developed a very coarse throat and so GP changed inhaler to LUFORBEC. I no longer have the throat isse but suffer with severe night cramps. I use Magnesium oil to help this but wondered if it could be the inhaler.

All of my years of having brittle asthma I never thought I’d end up like this, it’s so debilitating. take care Wendy xx

Hi all, I caught a cold/cough around November time, just a seasonal virus, nothing serious. I took a Covid test at the time, which was negative. But the cough, phlegm, wheezing and breathlessness has remained, unfortunately. More worryingly, having not had an asthma attack in many months, I then had

Hi there first time poster here! Picture of one of my hospital lunches for tax purposes! just wondered if anyone has any advice for self advocating when hospitalised with asthma. I was brought in my ambulance on Wednesday evening, almost took 24hrs to get a bed. Doctor listened to my chest first

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I've been on Dupixent for three months now I take it every 14 days but when it gets down to the last four or five days my symptoms start coming back, this time my asthma came back with a vengeance, It was really poorly controlled before I started the Dupixent. I have been right on the edge for 2 days

I've been informed today that I will be having a level one absence review meeting in a few weeks. I had a period of absence in Feb 24 due to viral infection which exasperated my asthma and then again in January 25 due to the same thing again. My asthma is usually mild but if I get a cold/flu then that

Hope everyone is well. I used to fly regularly once upon a time(over a decade ago). My last flight was when I had asthma early days which wasn’t well controlled. The flight experience was filled with anxiety and with asthma not being well controlled this didn’t help. Fast forward 10 years, my asthma

Hallo thereTo cut a long story short,three weeks ago I had quite a serious heart event ( ventricular tachycardia) and have been prescribed 2.5 mg of bisoprolol daily. It's successfully brought down my heart rate and put my heart into a regular rhythm. However, it's really exacerbating my asthma and

i have cough variant asthma. It acts up from cold weather or when i get a cold which goes right to my lungs.. and brings on my cough variant asthma s also gets irrated from my reflux. Happens maybe once a yr ad goes away with albuterol and a steroid. Now got a bad virus cold coughed violently

Hi everyone, I am 42 years old and was diagnosed with asthma last year after many trips to the Dr's. I had some kind of cold (possibly covid) and then a terrible bout where I could not even get up my stairs etc due to breathlessness. I have never smoked or had any respiratory issues before so this was

Good Morning, one of the Asthma triggers pages on the Asthma + Lung UK website has been updated - take a look here: https://www.asthmaandlung.org.uk/conditions/asthma/asthma-triggers/understanding-asthma-triggers

I dont know what to do I rang the doctors for an appointment with the Asthma nurse and they said that they did not have an asthma nurse at the moment. The thing is I was discharged from the hospital Asthma nurse last year after follow ups from hospital stay. I have copd and keep getting coughs and needing

Hi. Feeling upset after seeing consultant after a ten week wait with unmanaged asthma following chest infection. I’m on maximum steroid inhaler as well as spirivia , montelukast, fexofenadine, nasal spray. He Basically told me I don’t have asthma and won’t give me any more treatment despite me still

At 65 I have been diagnosed with ADHD. I have taken Rubifen (methylphenidate) for a month but have stopped as my asthma, which is normally mild, worsened considerably after starting the meds, and has now improved now I’ve stopped. Can’t find anything in the medical literature to explain this. Has anyone

The last twice I have been prescribed a 5 day course of steroids for my Nasal polyps my asthma is great little symptoms and dont have to use my blue inhaler at all just Fostair and Montelukast, Both times 4 weeks after finishing the course I have had a bad asthma flare up has anyone else had this or

I'm 67 and diagnosed with Asthma about 16 months ago. Before my diagnosis, I took Ibuprofin to help with pain and swelling in my hands. I was told not to take Ibuprofin any more. Is this a common experience? I'd like to hear from people in a similar situation and how I might progress now with my

Asthma + Lung UK have now updated the content about studying with asthma and asthma, teenagers and young people on the following website pages 🙂 https://www.asthmaandlung.org.uk/conditions/asthma/manage/studying https://www.asthmaandlung.org.uk/conditions/asthma/manage/asthma-young-people

I’m intrigued by this!