Asthma

[zandperl]

I'm so excited, today after a couple puffs from my rescue inhaler an hour earlier, I was able to walk home really fast and get short of breath from exercise / lung capacity, rather than short of breath from asthma. Eeee! (Yeah, I'm even more out of shape than I usually am, since I've been walking at a little old lady's pace since the Hunt b/c to

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[sildra]

Interesting. I probably have asthma (my old family doctor's new PA suggested it as an explanation for a bad cough that wouldn't go away when I was 18 and I thought it sounded likely--in that it neatly explained some pervasive childhood experiences--but never followed up). To me, shortness of breath due to exercise feels like tingling/pain all through my upper chest and an inability to fully control my breathing (like, I can control the depth if I concentrate, but each breath is shaky) sometimes verging on outright choking (one time a friend tried to give me water and even though I waited to drink until I was partially recovered I still ended up aspirating it, my breathing was that spasmodic). I've never actually experienced wanting to expand my lungs further and being unable to, except when I'm intentionally trying to make myself yawn or something. Never from exercise, certainly. Maybe this means my asthma isn't as mild as I tend to think?