I Had childhood asthma and was taking inhalers up until high school when it went away. I was never hospitalised but I did have a few nasty bouts of croup.
My asthma seems to have reappeard in adulthood, at least that's what the doctors keep telling me so I take my preventitive brown inhaler daily and always carry my releaver inhaler around with me.
When I've been sick my asthma symptoms reappear - this usually coincides with a chest infection. So I get wheezy and my chest gets tight and you can see my throat constricting when I breathe in...pretty scary. They usually give me some steroids and then I get on with it.
So anyway yesterday I was randomly feeling quite breathless. Took my releaver inhaler a few times and still felt tight.
Today the same again but it feels a lot tighter and when I breathe in I can see mild constrictions
I'm absolutely terrified of having a fatal asthma attack...
I've youtubed asthma attacks and mine is nothing like the severity of some of those that people have uploaded but I've been worried ever since I read on the nhs website that even having mild asthma can trigger a life threatening attack !
I wish i had never read that because i can't get it out of my head and now I'm home alone terrified and monitoring my breathing!!!!!
I was able to rationalise before that I didn't have severe asthma and it was probably just a flare up due to weather. But now I've read that, the rationalising has gone out the window....