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Damini
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This is going to be a bit of a long and windey story, and so the short version of it is: do any of you lot in here have asthma?
The long version is that when I was about twelve I kept getting bronchitus at a certain time of year, and the doctor diagnosed me as having asthma aggravated by rape seed pollen. However, I didn't want to have asthma, I kept going to the clinic for a year or so but I was embarrassed seeing the asthma nurse when I smoked and I never had an asthma attack so I just hid away my inhalers and ignored it, and pretty much forgot all about it.
When I got to uni I kept getting chest infections, so I went to my doctor and he diagnosed me with (shock, horror) asthma. I said "Oh, strange you should say that, my doctor said I had that when I was twelve" to which he didn't seem too impressed. I've got a brown inhaler and a blue inhaler, but really I don't use them - still never had an asthma attack.
Thing is though when I get ill I really die lung wise (gave up smoking two years ago) and last couple nights (since Kenny gave me his lurgey) I've woken up not being able to breathe hardly at all, and floundering about coughing and flapping. I'm not a very good asthmatic, don't really understand it, and wouldn't know really if I'm having an attack or if my asthma is playing up or if it's just part and parcel of being ill. It's not going to kill me, I don't need an ambulance or anything, its just quite unpleasant gasping for breath like a fish out of water.
So any asthmatics out there, does it get worse when you are ill? Are there ways to make it easier? I'm taking both inhalers at the moment, but they're probably loaded with cobwebs. I don't want to go back to the doctors cos there's nothing you can get given for the flu and also he thinks I'm a bit of a spaz and I feel a bit of an idiot going back and saying "So, you know how you diagnosed me with asthma for a second time in my lifetime, how does it all work?" three years later.
Yes, I am a total tool.
Muchos buchos wheezing gracious.
The long version is that when I was about twelve I kept getting bronchitus at a certain time of year, and the doctor diagnosed me as having asthma aggravated by rape seed pollen. However, I didn't want to have asthma, I kept going to the clinic for a year or so but I was embarrassed seeing the asthma nurse when I smoked and I never had an asthma attack so I just hid away my inhalers and ignored it, and pretty much forgot all about it.
When I got to uni I kept getting chest infections, so I went to my doctor and he diagnosed me with (shock, horror) asthma. I said "Oh, strange you should say that, my doctor said I had that when I was twelve" to which he didn't seem too impressed. I've got a brown inhaler and a blue inhaler, but really I don't use them - still never had an asthma attack.
Thing is though when I get ill I really die lung wise (gave up smoking two years ago) and last couple nights (since Kenny gave me his lurgey) I've woken up not being able to breathe hardly at all, and floundering about coughing and flapping. I'm not a very good asthmatic, don't really understand it, and wouldn't know really if I'm having an attack or if my asthma is playing up or if it's just part and parcel of being ill. It's not going to kill me, I don't need an ambulance or anything, its just quite unpleasant gasping for breath like a fish out of water.
So any asthmatics out there, does it get worse when you are ill? Are there ways to make it easier? I'm taking both inhalers at the moment, but they're probably loaded with cobwebs. I don't want to go back to the doctors cos there's nothing you can get given for the flu and also he thinks I'm a bit of a spaz and I feel a bit of an idiot going back and saying "So, you know how you diagnosed me with asthma for a second time in my lifetime, how does it all work?" three years later.
Yes, I am a total tool.
Muchos buchos wheezing gracious.
