If you'd be so good. I never had a respiratory condition (besides a brief bout with bronchitis when I was about 8 or 9), so I'm kind of clutching at straws here.
+ What did an attack feel like (if you were prone to them)? Did they vary in intensity, or were they pretty much all the same? + Were you able to breathe normally the rest of the time, or did the asthma impair you even when you weren't having an attack? + Were there particular stressors (physical, psychological, or both) that brought on or exaggerated an attack?
1. Mine weren't exactly attacks... I would describe them such: Your chest burns and you can barely breathe. You gulp for air but it feels like cold fire. 2. Well, theorhetically I should have been able to, but I also had upper resperatory problems, so it was never "normal" 3. Temperature and moisture. Dust.
I lost my childhood asthma, thank God. The only traces left are being unable to run safely or work out strenuously. I have never breathed well, but the asthma is zippo. So don't go with me - go with somebody who has more real asthma symptoms, like actual attacks and worse effects under stress and mounting pressure.
It is in my family, but unlike many fat kids, I never had it. (I wasn't actually fat until I was about 16.) I did, however, have friends who got out of running by faking an attack.
I'm a lazy sod who expects everyone to do my research for me, silly flufflet. ♥
I used to get nosebleeds all the time when I was little, if that's any help. And it would always, always, always happen when I was at someone's birthday party.
It runs in the family. My youngest uncle got nosebleeds so bad that the doctors had to burn the inside of his nose to make it stop.
Anyway. No asthma here, move along, move along, nothing to see.
I didn't so much, but my sister was prone to them. Although not at birthday parties, as I recall. Perhaps your nose was just doing it to embarrass you.
They can burn the insides of other things to make other kinds of bleeding stop, too. I think this is a valuable innovation and plan to have it done posthaste.
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+ What did an attack feel like (if you were prone to them)? Did they vary in intensity, or were they pretty much all the same?
+ Were you able to breathe normally the rest of the time, or did the asthma impair you even when you weren't having an attack?
+ Were there particular stressors (physical, psychological, or both) that brought on or exaggerated an attack?
More to follow, probably, as I think of them.
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2. Well, theorhetically I should have been able to, but I also had upper resperatory problems, so it was never "normal"
3. Temperature and moisture. Dust.
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This was very helpful, actually. Thanks!
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I wish I could help you, Lee.
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I'm a lazy sod who expects everyone to do my research for me, silly flufflet. ♥
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Hope you're doing okay.
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It runs in the family. My youngest uncle got nosebleeds so bad that the doctors had to burn the inside of his nose to make it stop.
Anyway. No asthma here, move along, move along, nothing to see.
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They can burn the insides of other things to make other kinds of bleeding stop, too. I think this is a valuable innovation and plan to have it done posthaste.
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