General Chat

hiya everyone and thanks for you replies. well i have learnt a lot from this thread. all your tips etc .i did better on that machine were you blow every bit of air out of your lungs. and then its printed off. my peak flow was just over 300.my spray is fluticasone and i have got the mini trombone as well ( spacer) lol. many thanks again. god bless you all x

Anyone feeling any better than the pollen count is down ever so slightly or like me still coughing and no energy fed up as this has been since early June with high counts. Ann

hiya ann ,i was coughfing my head off last nite.kept my hubby awake. i told him 'dont let it worry you, its not the cough that carries you of. its the coffin they carry you of in ' lol x

Sandra - I have been in the spare room most of the time since this started - husband reckons each year I am getting worse but I am tired of pointing out that this is the first year the high count of pollen/pollution has gone on so long without a break. What do you think? Ann

hiya ann ,i must admit i was bad last nite, for me it was a one of i think ,take care ann x

Hi Sandra I got your email message Yes I have Ashma too!! have had since I met Roger my husband when I was 16!!! always tell him I'm allergic to him hehehehe!!!!I will be 57 in September so had it for a long time!! I take Serotide inhaler (Its a combination of seravent and Becloforte inhalers Steroid) These help to prevent an attack and Ventolin this helps when youre struggling to breathe) and Singulair (tablets) and Prednisalone (steroid tablets) have now been on these for 15 years and yes I do have a weight problem!! But an answer which should please you is that taking steroid by inhaler will not add weight!! Good luck Sandra love Val :~) forgot to say I also take an antihistamine!! shake me up and Ild rattle!!! my peak flow is best 300 and hospital 100!! Forgot to mention!!! I've never smoked!!??

hiya val roxanne and caz, thanks a lot. val like i told you i went hugemogos on steriods for infirtility (did not want to go down that same road)val meant to tell you on sat. you are slimmer than when i last saw you x

My eldest boy has had asthma since he was about 2 years old. He also gets hay fever. He only has it very slightly now, just when he gets a bad cold or there is very stormy weather. He uses his inhaler in the morning and usually not at all the rest of the day (it used to be 2 inhalers 3 times plus a day). I know he tries to shrug it off but I made him promise ALWAYS to carry an inhaler just in case. I never thought about the buggy theory before. I have to say when I was at school there was just one kid in the whole year with asthma and we thought of him as disabled. Now its what 1 in 5 or something!

Heather I can recall sometime during the seventies watching a programme testing the air around schools particularly those close to busy roads and motorways and then testing the children - the results even then were giving loud warnings. Then at some stage I noticed the buggies and the height of the car/bus/lorry exhausts and when a mother is pushing a baby in a buggy and waiting to cross the road - where is the buggy? Don't get me wrong I am not blaming the Mums - this as I have said earlier in the thread is my theory and been banging a drum about it for well over 20 years. I daren't go near large towns or cities during summer or I am in trouble fast and I mean fast - in minutes. Ann

hiya all thanks a lot x

Now that the weather has cooled and pollen count is down hope everyone is feeling better. Ann

hiya ann thanks , i have still not got a good peak flow (200) but i feel well x

Snap - 200 - thank goodness someone else has that reading too! Made to feel a freak at asthma clinic Ann

Yes, my husband, he has had it for about 30yrs. he uses Seretide Diskus Accuhaler, plus he has a smaller blue for instant relief. But since having the Seretide purple diskus Accuhaler he has hardly any problems at all. Shirley Ann.

Shirley I have the Serentide purple disk night and morning but cannot honestly say I notice any difference - said to clinic sometimes I can taste it and other times not - told me it was foolproof.

i hav asthma not controlled all that well at times i hav steriod inhaler twice a day plus ventolin four times a day last weekend i had very bad time and was sooooooooooooo breathless i think it cud hav been caused by me eating almonds but i dont want to try to find out if they r a trigger as it was very scary the doc doubled my inhalers and im lots better now thank god x

Hi I have been diagnosed with asthma for the last 7 years - only 'got it' since I stopped smoking. It started apparently with the fact that I also 'got' hayfever (never been ill in my life before that!), and because it went untreated (didnt know I had it), I ended up with asthma. Im supposed to take a brown inhaler twice a day and the blue one when I get breathless. As I only have an attack when I laugh (I narrowed the attacks down, excuse the pun), needless to say I only use my blue one now and have done for the last 5 years. Hubby says I should do vigourous exercise to clear the mucus from my lungs but exercise doesnt affect my condition anyway, so I dont think that would help. I honestly thought 'I cant have asthma, it only happens when I laugh'. But, I looked on the net and found that asthma comes in many guises including just laughing. Broncial spasms I beleive. Vikki xx

hiya girls and thanks , ann what i cant understand is. a woman i clean for is 76 and a smoker ,her peak flow is 300 .CANT WEIGH IT UP x

my daughter suffers from it has done since tiny baby, shes 19 yesterday, lately shes been bad with it , coughing all the time, stress agrivates it, hot weather , damp weather, feathers

hiya julie yes you are right. stress does make it worse x