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I wonder how many doctors have checked for it, and how many have symptoms without having an asthma diagnosis.
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You could answer from since you got ME.
I was diagnosed with a mild form of asthma as a youngster and needed an inhaler from about age 6. It was only really troublesome if I got a cold since it always gave me a chest infection. (although the docs were never convinced it was asthma, but some sort of intermittent breathing problems). At age 20 i began to cough up a lot of phlegm all the time, and was diagnosed with bronchiectasis, basically a CT scan showed the bottom 1/3 of both lungs wasn't working.
However despite being told this was incurable, it cleared up and 4 years later a CT scan showed confirmed this. Now i don't need to take inhalers. Rather than having exercise induced asthma, exercise was probably my saving grace. Papworth Hospital who treated me said the fact I was training so vigourously as a pro athlete probably saved my lungs.
However i did develop ME and autonomic problems, and I wonder how much of all this (asthma/bronchiectasis/ME/autonomic probs) are due to me having eds3 which I only found out I had last autumn.
Edit: I see above the hernias are also a sign of EDS and I had a double inguinal hernia repair 4 years ago.
I was dx young. Had emergency tonsilectemy when I was 5. I think it must have helped but got another bought of asthma in my early teens. This was couple with chronic bronchitis and put me in hospital at a regular basis. Back in those days I was given IV steroids and antibios.
Things settled down in my later teens.
Kicked off once when I was about 21 and my then boyfriend (now dh) stripped some tiles off a ceiling and I spent 4 days in hospt.
Again it settled until my third pregnancy and it reared it's ugly head and had me in hospt again.
Then I was more or less fine until I got ill with Shambles when I was preg with my 10 year old. Even then the asthma didn't really kick off, but it's gradually got worse over the ten years and then I had over a year of 6 weekly chest infections.
I'm in a really bad way now. Level 5 care but it's not working. Saw a Lung Spec last year who saw the dx of FMS and ME and so became a lollopping great wazzock.
I'm on prednisolone again. No infection this time. Being referred back to see a Lung Spec.
Can't get up the stairs in one go. Can't walk around without becoming breathless.
Renal and bnp bloods came back neg.
I have all the symptoms of heart failure though.
Off to have more bloods taken today - testing for Lupus and other stuff.
I am so utterly knackered.
I have various asthma like symptoms but not asthma. I was diagnosed with exercise induced asthma but not tested in the 90s. Running in cold air would set it off. In the last decade or so I developed lung hypersensitivity. Anything sufficiently aggravating the upper airway would shut all my breath down, so fast it is like turning off a switch. I found resveratrol can eliminate this symptom, but I have to take it at least every five days for this symptom to stay away.
Can you actually BE tested for asthma ? and were would you go for tha please?. My GP told me i had it based on symptoms and that a puffer helps but i have never actually been tested for it ; going to an allergy clinic soon - and wonndering it that is their thing too.
Thanks for that- i will follow it up Sick.
But if you are tested when you are not having an attack would anythig show?
Yes, e.g.:Hi Sherlock I just got teted fot he MTHRFKR gene yesterday so awaiting results
I note her in AUs the test is 55 dollars but FREE if you have history of thrombosis which is interesting !
Mens there must be something medically accepted and well known in it
and confirsm a linkd to thromboses.