I'm having my first bad asthma attack for over six months.

I've been increasing my exercise and that's been helping, but the fog for the last few days has been really bad.

The fog traps all the air pollution and I'm very wheezy.

I've had to take a course of steroids and that means in turn that I can't sleep (awake at 3am last night trying to decipher ( Read more... )

 Mainly for my reference - as this isn't a problem that will affect all users of the drug - never use Tiotropine - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiotropium_bromide

It's not a medication that will help my asthma as it causes exactly the same throat problems as inhaled ( Read more... )

This has been a bad winter for asthma - I've had to take four short courses of steroids so far (which is far worse than my average one course per winter).  Sometimes I can identify the trigger (eg. flu), sometimes, I can't.  I had a bad attack on Boxing Day bank holiday which remains of unknown cause (I think the bath bombs I bought Entorien were ( Read more... )

I phone the Asthma UK telephone helpline.  The nurse couldn't work out what might have triggered the attack (though she had a very sensible checklist of common triggers), but she did have some useful advice for future attacks.

The recommended amount of ventolin that can be used in case of a bad attack is much higher than it used to be.  The ( Read more... )

I had an asthma attack last night, (started about 8pm and hit serious by 10pm), totally out of the blue.  I'm not suffering from any illness.  I hadn't been exposed to any known allergens (dust, fungal spores, perfume, fireworks).  It was so bad that I didn't go to bed until 3am.  At the lowest point this morning, my peak flow was down from 500 to ( Read more... )

I feel even more out of breath than I did an hour ago, but my peak flow is actually higher, only ten points off my maximum (ie. well nigh perfect ( Read more... )

One of the hardest things I find about taking a steroid course for asthma is coming off them afterwards ( Read more... )

I can hear the fireworks starting and I'm a little bit nervous ( Read more... )

I'm definitely past the worst.  My body temperature is stabilising now.  No hot or cold sweats today.  Still very tired, but more able to move about the house ( Read more... )

There are times when you have a bad cold and you think you have flu ( Read more... )