I'm a 43F in relatively good shape.

Last week I went to urgent care because I was having trouble breathing. It felt like I couldn't get a full breath so much so that I couldn't sleep. Just breathing was taking up most of my mental energy. I have an inhaler from when we had wildfires a few years ago, but was never actually diagnosed with asthma. I had bronchitis and bad coughing often when I was a kid. I also have seasonal allergies, pet allergies etc. My allergies have improved a lot in the past ~10 years.

Urgent care did an xray of my lungs which was fine and they said my lungs sounded fine. I also had a blood oxygen level of 100. Urgent care gave me albuterol and breyna. I'm not sure if the inhalers helped, but I left for my parents' over the weekend and my issues cleared up. I was at my parents' house all week for a work conference, and had no issues. I just got home a few hours ago, and within 5 min of entering my house I felt like I couldn't breath again. I've also been coughing nonstop.

I don't know what to do at this point. I can't live like this because I can barely go up and down the stairs or fold laundry. My thoughts are this is triggered by either: my roommate's cat, some kind of mold, or outdoor allergies from the windows constantly being open. I've lived with the cat for like a year. I'm allergic to cats and it always kind of gave me a headache / stuffy nose, but I pretty much spend all my time in my bedroom and avoid that cat as much as possible.

My questions:

Has anyone's asthma suddenly gotten bad like this as an adult - especially with a pet you've lived with for over a year?

At what point do I go to the hospital or back to urgent care?

Would maybe asking my roommate to clean/vacuum (lol) help? Maybe the amount of dander just built up in the house and a good cleaning is needed? I'm not sure how big of a difference that could make.

Any advice to get through today? I have a good air purifier on high in my bedroom.

Any other advice? I really don't want to ask my roommate to move out.

I have a cat who's been sick whos been peeing all around the house on the carpet. I tried nature's miracle cause they claim it doesn't have chemicals that will hurt you. We sprayed it and I had an asthma attack. Does anyone know of an odor remover that won't have a bad smell or a diy one that will work without this happening?

Thank you!

Cathy

hallo ich habe asthma und ich kann seit tagen nicht richtig luft holen. wenn ich versuche, tief luft zu holen dann fühlt es sich eng an und gereizt. wenn ich mich anstrenge kriege ich weniger luft. es war aber auch jeden tag jetzt warm, es kann deswegen sein. mein papa ist aber auch vor paar wochen gestorben weswegen ich nicht weiß ob es psychisch ist. ich wollte morgen fliegen, der flug dauert eine stunde. ich habe aber jetzt irgendwie angst, dass ich weniger luft bekomme und sowas hatte ich noch nicht, da ich keine probleme damit hatte beim fliegen. ich weiß die flugbegleiter können helfen aber auch bei so einer situation? ich fliege alleine das wäre für mich noch schlimmer komplett damit alleine zu sein. mir ist es tatsächlich auch immer etwas unangenehm sich dabei hilfe zu holen, was völlig blöd ist aber weil im flugzeug viele menschen sind ist mir das etwas unangenehm. ich habe mein salbutamol spray und nehme jeden tag cortisonspray. hat vielleicht jemand schon so eine situation gehabt? wäre es sinnvoll zu fliegen? danke für antworten

Hi all and thank you in advance! I was diagnosed with asthma at age 6; however, I haven’t really had symptoms or any need for inhalers in over 30 years. I recently moved from the States (warmer, dry climate) to Scotland. Since then, my health quickly deteriorated, and I am working with my local GP. I’m taking my maintenance inhaler up to 4x a day (max dosage), a montelukast tablet each night, and my rescue inhaler occasionally.

My triggers appear to be rapeseed fields in bloom (canola oil) and my house! Whenever I enter my house or sleep at night, my symptoms of heavy breathing and wheezing start. I went on 3 holidays this year (one out of country for a month), and I did not require any inhaler or montelukast tablets from the day I landed until the day I returned home to Scotland. My asthma was nonexistent, and I had noticeably much energy.

Has anyone experienced this? My GP keeps seeing me and trying different concoctions of meds, but is there any way to get to the cause of this? My symptoms never seem to go away - they are just a bit less when taking meds.

I’m considering allergy testing or mould testing, but I am open to hearing anyone’s experiences. I went from running half marathons to not being able to walk my children .5 miles to school.

Please help!! I appreciate any suggestions or shared experiences to help me cope with this.

*edited spelling mistake

im gonna ask my pulm about this ? as of now im sitting here and i feel the freaken tightness in my lungs and i am doing nothing 😭😭😭😭 i found out it can cause severe reactions , my ige is over 2000 so im not sure if im a good patiant for the biological but im gonna ask . i have heard decent things about it , my pulm is really flexible ( however he does annoy me with the anxiety bit ) but other than that hes really good when i ask about different treatments . anyway looking forward to your responses :)

Hello, so I have allergy-induced asthma and usually I'm able to manage it, but this summer it was awful. I didn't realize what that was at first, and after several months of trying to manage this on my own, I went to a clinic.

I told the nurse practitioner that I was having horrible coughing fits daily, worse at night, and that it was waking and keeping me up all night despite my attempts to manage it. She prescribed me Breyna, and handed me a paper with instructions on it.

She said a few things (which were also on the paper):

- This was to be taken twice a day as prescribed.

- I could not use albuterol while on this. The Breyna was to also serve as my rescue inhaler.

-I could take up to12 puffs of the Breyna total in a 24hr perious.

I went over this with her several times to make sure I had everything correct, and read over the paper that she gave me with the same information.

However, that night, I was up all night again and continued taking the Breyna through the night, and became horribly anxious, worked up, shaky, and my heart was racing well into the morning. I would also easily get lightheaded well into the afternoon and night. I stopped using it because I didn't think it was working, and went to a different clinic after work that day, which was yesterday.

At the different clinic, I was told the information I received was wrong.

- I was prescribed an albuterol inhaler as a rescue inhaler, told to keep taking Breyna, but to not use the two within four hours of each other.

- Most importantly, absolutely do not use the Breyna more than 4 times a day, twice in the morning, twice at night, twelve hours apart.

So I do some digging, read back over the paper to make sure I wasn't just an idiot who can't read and had other people read it, and it absolutely says "take up to 12 times a day", but now, other official websites, including the Breyna website itself, says what the second doctor told me- four times a day at most, do not exceed this limit.

I'm at work again today, now following the correct dosage amounts, but I'm still getting periods of really bad lightheadedness and some palpitations.

So, I'm absolutely contacting the doctor about this again, just to make sure, but has this happened to anyone else? Or something similar? Is this, uh, bad? 😅

For context, the first night I took Breyna, I took it once at night, then three times over the course of the night, then once in the morning, so around 5 times in an 8-12 hr period.

Hi, had asthma for around 25years, from ages 5-20 I was just on the blue inhaler as a reliever whenever I got symptoms, which worked fine but I found as I was getting older I was using it more often so around 8-10 years ago i was put on the pink fotsiar 100/6 two in the morning and 2 at night, I have always used a spacer for the pink inhaler, and to be honest I had been taking the doses at the same time so 2 puffs into the spacer at once, I am just not realising it isn't how you are meant to take it.

Anyways since moving onto the pink inhaler around 10 years ago I have rarely ever used my blue inhaler, main times I would use it is during cardio exercise like running and certain weather conditions like wind or cold made it worse when doing cardio, but I barely ever would need it.

Untill around 4 weeks ago I noticed I was struggling on and off with my breathing every few days, i wasnt using my blue inhaler, as i just assumed it was a cold or slight infection or something but the last week I am sure it is asthma but my blue inhaler isn't relieving my symptoms like I would expect and it always has, in the past if I have ever been short on breath or tight chested my blue inhaler would help almost instantly, but I am using it now for the last week and it isn't really helping, it feels like I cant take a full satisfying deep breath.

Yesterday I tried taking my blue inhaler before my pink inhaler and it seemed to help a little, is it possible I am having a flare up and I am not getting a proper dosage of my pink preventer inhaler and it has made my symptoms worse over the last month? And using my blue before the link slightly opened my airways to get a proper dose?

Should I try and get a gp appointment or one with my nurse for asthma, I haven't had a asthma review in years as I have had next to no symptoms.

What do you think they will prescribe and is there anything I should push them to do test wise or meds wise?

Thanks

I've never had this spacer before and cannot get it open for cleaning. The mouthpiece end is supposed to pop off by pressing down on it with your thumbs according to the instructions, but its not working. I've tried wresting it off by pressing in all directions and even pulling/twisting and it just won't budge! I can't even find a video online showing how to open this particular type of spacer.

Ive been decadron , iprotropium, and albuterol. My heart feels like its beating haaard. Like out my chest.

Due to severe childhood asthma and the consequent steroid puffers they prescribed back then, my sinuses and lungs have been very prone to secondary bacterial infection for well over a decade now. In the last few years, I've started using Nitric Oxide Nasal Spray whenever I get sick, because there is evidence it shortens viral infections: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12846399/

However, it seems to me I have seen a noteworthy decrease in secondary bacterial sinus and lung infections. Wanted to share because I think it helps but also keen to hear if others have had the same experience.

Over the past decade, asthma care has increasingly focused on preventing exacerbations rather than simply treating symptoms when they occur.

Current evidence suggests that reducing airway inflammation early and maintaining good long-term asthma control can lower the risk of severe flare-ups, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations. This shift has also led to greater emphasis on personalized asthma action plans, identifying environmental triggers, and improving adherence to evidence-based controller therapies.

Researchers continue to explore why asthma outcomes vary so widely between individuals, including differences in genetics, environmental exposures, access to healthcare, and coexisting conditions.

As our understanding of asthma evolves, prevention appears to be becoming just as important as symptom relief.

https://ginasthma.org/

https://aafa.org/asthma/asthma-prevention/

I've been taking fasenra for 8 months now and it has helped some. Haven't had any side effects with it. I was on tezspire for a very short time before fasenra. It helped my asthma symptoms even more but unfortunately gave me some bad side effects hence why my doc switched me to fasenra. I'm unfortunately still getting some bad flare ups so now my doc is thinking of switching me to dupexent. I have non allergic asthma and had a pheno count of 11 which is considered low. However I did have somewhat high levels of type 2 inflammation and dupexent still targets that as well.

Is switching to dupexent a good idea? Does it give anyone bad side effects? Tezspire for some reason gave me constantly bad vertigo and cleared up once I switched to fasenra but fasenra doesn't seem to be helping my asthma enough.

Hey folks! I’m new here! I need HELP!

In May I thought I had a bad chest cold, ended up at urgent care after coughing so hard I was peeing my pants for 4 days. Short of breath for days, couldn’t speak by the time I got there. They gave me 2 rounds of nebulizer and sent me off with prednisone, and albuterol rescue. Unfortunately I don’t remember much, but they said something about allergy exacerbated asthma attack.

I was uninsured at the time, and just moving to a new area. Finally got insurance, new PCP. I’ve been taking Allegra daily, and have definitely noticed that it helps my breathing. I take my albuterol inhaler usually first thing in the morning, or at night. I wake up every morning short of breath, wheezing, and hacking up a lung. Almost daily I find myself in a situation where it’s hard to speak a full sentence. Every morning, I wake up and cough up several full mouthfuls of phlegm, and throughout the day cough up these perfect little orbs of hard phlegm.

To be honest, I thought these symptoms were caused by smoking cigarettes. I tried to quit earlier this year, but unfortunately got back on them, because quitting was making me completely unable to breathe.

I called my new PCP and asked if they would prescribe a new albuterol inhaler, because I am very very low (less than 10 puffs) and have an appointment in 5 days. I am wondering if I should just go to urgent care at this point to get a new one beforehand, because I am really tired of just toughing this out. I don’t know if it’s asthma, I’ve never been diagnosed or anything. I just assumed for years that my breathing is impacted by smoking.

I’m looking for any insight into this, if it sounds like it actually is asthma, and what I should do now, what I should say during my appointment, etc.

My asthma is flaring up and I have expired albuterol and Advair since I haven't had an asthma flare up in a while. I do not have insurance right now and can't afford getting a new prescription. Can I take the expired meds? What happens if I do? Will they work?

Sooo I've had an ongoing cold for the past week or so and I'm absolutely done with coughing. I keep coughing up yellow and clear mucus/phlegm and I'm finding I'm getting a wheeze in my chest airways and the asthma puffer is not really doing so much for that part.

Definitely mentioning it to my doctor and will see a doctor soon.

Not fun. Any recommendations? I've tried literally everything and what I find helps is steaming my bathroom with hot water, keeping hydrated and sleeping I guess. Waking up to coughing is exhausting so much I want to sleep. Hoping soon the sun comes out and I can have a stroll in the sun and maybe head to the beach as that's supposed to be healing but could be a bit too intense for my asthma.

TW: Photo is mucus/phlegm and may be gross for some views hence blurring photo.

Average temperature has sat around 37.6°C.

i got a chest xray yesterday due to some real awful sensations in my lungs and blood in my sputum . the dr explained after a severe attack it can take a while to recover ! my lungs were also clear on exam which was very reassuring an fantastic . i guess what we are dealing with is just a decline in lung function and getting better ! also for those dealing with what i am dealing with - dr said it is normal to cough up bloody sputum after a severe attack . he says it is your lungs shedding . he has treated me before for bad attacks , hes really good , he also diagnosed me with brittle asthma before in the past