Will you be attending our "Ask Me Any... - Asthma Community ...
Will you be attending our "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) with Dr. Andy on October 5, at 7 PM BST?
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I'd like to attend just to hear the questions and pick up any info I hadn't thought of, but I can't due to work.
Sorry to hear this Jimmy, we will be doing further AMA's if this is successful. If you do think of a Q pls post here and it can be answered on the night.
Although the live Q+A will be closed after the event you can still view what was discussed
This looks like a great opportunity to ask things in a more relaxed environment. I tend to feel like I can't ask things in appointments, or I forget until I'm out and then feel annoyed. This feels more relaxed, plus you know that Dr Andy will know about asthma, which can be a bit of a shot in the dark sometimes when you see a new doctor.
I can't think of anything to ask currently, unless it's 'why do lungs feel the need to get stroppy about the weather??' (So many thunderstorms this week!) But I have a month to think of any!
Cool!
Actually, good point about the weather. I'm not sure if there IS an answer to this, but I'd love to know if there is anything we can do to limit how badly we are affected by the weather. My asthma is very much weather-related, and I find that I can go from not needing my blue inhaler at all for weeks to suddenly needing it multiple times a day, just because the weather has decided to go from frosty to foggy or dry to misty rain overnight. My GP doubled my maintenance inhaler last winter to try to even things out, but it doesn't really help. Because on the good days, I don't need that much and on the bad days, it's not enough.
Yes would like to hear more about this but not sure there's a solution! I guess trying to calm twitchy airways down in general is always helpful - perhaps you need other solutions than just doubling an existing inhaler? You could ask Dr Andy about that in general, not just in relation to weather.
I suspect changes in barometric pressure, especially drops, are part of it for me - this hapens with storms. On planes, the descent always triggers me but not the take-off, though I can't remember now what the pressure does for those. Cold used to be worst for me and now it's heat, especially humid heat - so the heatwave was not good! Plus some stuff I did to cool myself down made them protest as well, probably because it was too much of a contrast.
I won't be able to attend, but if someone could ask on my behalf. It's a nightmare in winter, especially when travelling, because I can go from totally fine to gasping for breath within a minute if we hit a patch of fog. It's pointless travelling any distance to a social event in winter, because if we hit fog or misty rain on the way, I'll arrive too wiped out to do anything but sleep!
yes, I hope I remember
I initially voted yes but have just realised that I will be on a flight at 7pm on that day. Sorry, I cannot attend
Just in case i forget due too Dysarthria i would like to know having had polyps on my vocal cords and then removed plus windpipe closing and small collapse on my Bronchi i was told these were due to not using a spacer when i was first told i had asthma and given the brown inhaler is this true can not using a spacer cause so many problems
my question is why dose my asthma affect me more in the winter were am finding it very difficult to get about use salbutamol blue inhaler quite a lot pluse seritide purple 250 1 each a month waiting to be tested for copd suffer with anxiety an depression
I'd like to ask whether wheezing is the only proof of asthma related breathing difficulties.
I have been asthmatic many years, but will go to the GP after experiencing a very tight and what feels like inflamed chest, taking inhalers more often and finding breathing harder than usual and am frequently told I am not experiencing asthma because the doctor cannot hear a wheeze. I know when I have asthma. This has put me off seeking help when I am having tight chest.
The thing is I will only wheeze when having an acute asthma attack. I used to wheeze a lot when I was younger. After many years as an asthmatic I avoid putting myself in situations which would trigger an acute attack that induces wheezing. But I do get times when I have ongoing chest tightness and am waking in the night using my inhaler but cannot get help at those times because there's no wheezing.
I would like to ask about a test for throat sensitivity that is carried out by Speech and Language. There is a consultant in the room during the test. A camera is situated in the throat and the substances that cause the larynx to react are put into the throat to cause a reaction. I’m told it is a tiny amount of the substance that causes a reaction. I have been offered this test but I’m struggling to understand how I would benefit from it? I’m told it allows the clinicians to see exactly what is happening to the throat when it reacts to the substance and allow the Speech Therapist to more accurately tailor a package of exercises. However I wonder why I can’t just be taught a variety of exercises that would help rather than go through this scary procedure?
Following a bout of Covid, and a bad bacterial chest infection in April/May 2022, my asthma has worsened considerably. (I also have atrial fibrillation.) I'm on Flutiform 250/10, salbutamol, Montelukast. I'm 68 / 5 feet 11 inches. My peak flow reading is consistently around 660 litres/min. But I still get long lasting tightness, and asthma attack which seems to present at the top of my chest.
I don't understand my condition. Why am I feeling tightness when my peak flow is so good? Why do I still get attacks? Why do they seem to present at the top of my chest? What more can I do?
Any thoughts please? Very many thanks...
Hi, Just sent a question, but it went before I’d finished! The question is whether it can cause any harm to my lungs by continuing with Ventolin and not using a combined inhlaer, as my asthma nurse urges me to do? I appreciate that it might work with many people but I have a bad reaction to the steroids they contain. Many thanks.
I was diagnosed with adult onset eisonophilic asthma 10 months ago, no history of asthma before, I am taking symbicort inhaler 2 puffs morning and evening which didnt seem to be enough, i recently had covid and now find that I need extra puffs every 3 to 4 hours, im 59 years old and my life has completely changed, I work as a cleaner 6 hrs a day and find it such a struggle to work effectively while breathless and wheezing, the highest peak flow is 280 but most days I am lucky to achieve 200, also I have gained a stone in weight although im eating less than I used to, will this be the norm now or will I ever return to how I was? Also I am sooo tired all the time, is that normal with this? Very grateful for any advice, thank you.
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