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Post by mike412 on Dec 13, 2016 1:52:08 GMT
I think it would have been easier for me to have cut the grass all the times I did in the summer put together in one day than just shoveling the snow today. I had a bad asthma attack and had to stop take a few puffs rest for a while waiting for my breath to come back to me then slowly finish was so happy to be done with it. I feel like a fish out of water struggling for air when I have trouble breathing, normally it is caused by overexercise or when I get a cold/sick but in the warmer weather I have a lot easier time with it hardly know I have it most the time even in the horrible humidity it just makes me sweat sometimes salty sweat turns white, I don't have any allergies it's like the cold takes energy from me and makes me feel fatigued then it strangles me the more the colder it gets and the more I exercise, move around, work. The wind is torture. The last time I got an asthma attack not in the winter was from trying to be an athlete not just trying to live my life doing what everyone else does.
I thought, "damn am I ever out of shape" but I'm not really it's like my lungs can't be climatized for this weather that well. I Know I would have had a much easier time shoveling something else in warmer weather. In the spring,fall,summer I was moving pretty fast on my bike and I walk faster than most people I think but in the winter even if there's none or barely any snow if it's cold riding my bike there's a good chance I'll get an attack, I might use my puffer a few times in a year for difficulty breathing in 3 seasons but winter comes I need it daily and I have to be careful not to take too much it raises your anxiety and vitals. I have a treadmill I use mostly in winter the rest of the year I walk/bike around the parks,trails,suburbs, I go on such long walks sometimes I need to get the bus home, I venture down streets/avenues I hadn't in a long time sometimes on nice days, come home to rest my aching feet instead of lungs.
I'm just going to go to the drugstore tomorrow and buy an aerochamber and see if that helps, I don't know how much snow were going to get this season but it's gonna be hell frozen over for me if I don't work this out.
Do any of you have asthma, how is it for you?
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Post by David on Dec 13, 2016 2:34:23 GMT
Although I've not personally suffered from asthma Mike...
I do identify with what you share with us here
for my late partner of seventeen years had asthma
that blighted his life for many a year.
My commiserations on such a chronically disabling health issue!
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Post by David on Dec 13, 2016 2:55:08 GMT
PS., I have ischemic heart disease ..
one of the side effects is angina.
And although not the same as asthma
there's common side affects in that if I labor to much
I suffer from chest pain.. which mimics a heart attack.
Very scary at times hence the reason I m prescribed a GTN spray...
to help combat same .
Do you have medication to help you Mike?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2016 4:13:27 GMT
I have horrible asthma mike which has also turned into the beginning stages of emphysema.
My pulmonary doctor tells me that any change in Weather can trigger it off as well as allergies. My doctor tells me to avoid my triggers. This is the only way along with asthma meds to keep it at bay.
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Post by David on Dec 13, 2016 4:29:29 GMT
I feel for you also Michelle
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Post by David on Dec 13, 2016 4:31:49 GMT
PS., I am now starting to wonder , if others here have pulmonary issues.
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Post by mike412 on Dec 13, 2016 4:37:06 GMT
Hi David,
I know someone who needs to carry a nitro inhaler with them for heart problems.
I think it would be really bad for someone with heart issues to get asthma because asthma medication can raise your pulse/blood pressure. Also asthma medication can make your anxiety worse the more you use it.
I have a corticosteroid inhaler(Flovent) I take daily for preventative management and one I take as needed a bronchodilator(Salbutamol) to take for an attack, when I get wheezy, I need to use it daily in winter because I get a lot of mucous sometimes and I have to try to keep my lungs clear.
An asthma attack feels like being strangled by a boa, I've seen it in nature videos the way they wrap themselves around their pray, I've felt the pain in my ribs and the struggle, I think sometimes I would have left this world if I didn't get my puffer soon just as sure as if a boa was wrapped around me.
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Post by David on Dec 13, 2016 4:52:01 GMT
Much obliged Mike for informing me
of something I was ignorant of complications wise
of until you shared same just now.
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Post by David on Dec 13, 2016 5:14:40 GMT
Further to what you share in your at post Mike
I have got to thinking although my late partner Walter
died ultimately of a cardiac event aged forty three.
The fact he like you was a chronic asthmatic
with frequent acute episodes...
that there was a correlation between the two?
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Post by mike412 on Dec 13, 2016 18:34:19 GMT
My asthma's not as chronic as it sounds, in the moment and by memory of the event it just seems really bad, I mean it's acute/remissioning mostly due to weather and exercise but I've known some people who have it so bad it's a daily struggle like I've never known and they have allergies too I'm lucky I don't. Just having an allergy to peanuts, dairy can be worse than having asthma, I remember when I was a kid hearing about a kid dying from an allergic reaction to peanuts.
Sometimes all I need to do is pace myself, not overexert myself but I do sometimes I'm still young and have a lot of energy sometimes, if my lungs we're as strong as my legs I think I could run a marathon.
A good expectorant helps me, I think it's like my lungs get clogged up and inflamed and I need to try to clear them out, my lungs don't naturally clean themselves as well as people with normal lungs I guess, the winter is when everyone gets sick, I go through a lot of cough drops and Kleenex through the winter.
I don't understand asthma on the level a doctor does but I've had asthma since I was a kid so I understand what it's like to have it and have heard so much from doctors/nurses. Since so many people have asthma the cause I guess to be due to pollution I wonder how many doctors have asthma themselves I would love to read something written on the subject of asthma by a doctor who has it and how he manages it himself.
I've felt my own heart racing in my chest from overusing my puffer in past winters, one winter I had to go to the hospital to get stabilized they put me on an iv, oxygen and the doctor shocked my heart and they kept me overnight. The doctor warned me about exceeding the dose and also about a patient a few beds over from me on oxygen struggling to breathe that if I didn't quit smoking that would be me some day. That stuck with me took a little while for the seriousness of that to sink in but I haven't smoked in nearly 3 years. I never smoked much 10 cigarettes in a day tops, so I hope the older I get the stronger my lungs may get especially with the help of a steroid inhaler.
It is possible for someone with heart problems to get a heart attack from overusing asthma medications, I had a pulse nearly 180 I think that time. If I wasn't so young it might have killed me. I think someone with heart problems might be given something safer though like someone with an allergy to penicillin they give them something else or if their asthma is so bad they need to exceed the daily allowed dose of what I'm taking for example. There's a lot of different kinds of medications for asthma I'm not familiar with, I was given one to take just for when I had an infection, I've taken corticosteroids in form of pills, they have nebulizers/vaporizers, I imagine if someone had lung problems and heart problems they might give them something for both conditions that won't interact with each other, I'm not sure.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2016 23:11:42 GMT
Hi Mike,
I'm proud of you for staying quit smoking for 3 years now. That is great!! Yes winter seems to be an asthma trigger for you from what you share here. My triggers are pollen in the spring and fall, cologne and even the smells that come from a self cleaning oven. I can't even go to get my birds food at the pet store because of the strong smells that'come from the grooming area. I have to run in and out quickly.
Asthma is no fun for sure and it's s good thing you quit smoking because mine has turned into emphysema from my smoking.
I use xopenex and atrovent for my asthma.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2016 17:26:47 GMT
if the room is too hot i think it screws up heart /breathing
if its too cold neuralgia acts up
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