Asthma

Thank you that's very kind. Any struggle is frustrating and upsetting. You are allowed to be annoyed at any struggle you are having 

Just had a cold!

These always make my cough worse. Often I cough, cough, cough until I choke, or am sick. My doctor wanted me on steroids but the side effects were so unpleasant I gave it up, then covid came along. 

The chalk at the school where I work hurts my airways, because of allergies and reflux, the doctors say, the most embarrassing incident recently was when coughing because of the chalk led to my inhaling a Dorotricin tablet, right in front of one of my, most rambunctious classes! Fun........

It sure does. It hits my confidence a lot too, as I can’t even rely on having a strong voice. And as stress on top of environmental things can be a trigger, sometimes days where I’ve really needed to speak clearly and without effort, I’ve been hoarse and weak voiced. 
i feel like I can’t even be the same person two days in a row, or in the evening as the morning. It’s plagued my entire adult life. 

I hope your new inhalers help. Asthma sucks.

I'm glad you thought ahead as well. The cold is one of the worst things for my own asthma, sounds like it is for you too sadly. I'm really sorry about that :( 

Definitely never run in the cold, I did once and it almost killed me, literally. Attacks are bad in this kind of weather.

Hopefully your inhalers will make things a lot better for you now :) xxx

Sorry to hear that Ella (yours sounds way worse than mine, so I should be grateful), and thanks :-)

Thanks! I was glad of thinking ahead to the imminent new inhalers when I was walking around lost in the town the other night trying to find a restaurant and the cold hit my lungs so hard that I could barely speak beyond a hoarse wheeze when I caught up with my friends. Nor could I move the muscles of my face to talk either, but that's just because it was the coldest I've ever been. I can get lost in even very familiar places sometimes, I'm notorious for it. The cold killed my phone battery too so the last resort of Google maps went out the window. 

Aw bless you (hugs) - fellow asthma sufferer here too.

I really hope it helps and makes life a bit easier for you.

Fingers crossed!

I hope it helps you. My GP didn't tell me about being diagnosed as a child with asthma and gave me medication. I now have severe asthma and it's scary but I'm under a good clinic. Very helpful 

Thanks Sparkly, that’s very kind

I'll keep my fingers crossed that your two new inhalers will be more effective.

Yes, that nitric oxide test seems to be a game changer for getting round that lung capacity issue. 

My main problem in getting diagnosed is that I have a large lung capacity, so all my flow rates remained in the normal range, even when I was coughing continuously, and every breath I took hurt, feeling like I was breathing in acid fumes.

That's good to hear. I'm hoping for better results with the red and blue inhalers I'll be getting. And of course I ended up googling asthma and autism last night, reminding me of the higher percentage of this and other inflammatory responses among us.

Cough variant asthma seems to be less known, and less readily diagnosed, than the wheezy type, by GPs. It took 6 months of breathing distress and various antibiotic courses before I suggested trying an asthma inhaler to my GP, to his credit he prescribed one, which immediately eased my symptoms.