My Experience of Asthma

My eldest son who is now nine years old was diagnosed with Asthma when he was five. He had just started primary school and was doing well when he came down with what I took for a normal cold. Always getting the cold (or so I thought) So I kept him off school for a few days and got him a cough bottle, after a few days he was fine, until about two weeks later, when he was sick again, this continued for about six weeks, I put it down to the cold weather, then two weeks later he was sick again. The doctor So I took him to the doctor and explained what was going on, he basically said I was being over protective and that my son ...

Asthma runs in our family, lots of my relatives have it and 2 have died from it. So me managing to escape asthma throughout my childhood seemed amazing. However, at the age of 21 I suddenly had an asthma attack for no reason. I started with a persistent cough in the evening and struggled through the night thinking it was just a cough but by the next day I realised I needed help. My flatmate at the time lent me her Ventolin inhaler (the blue one for relief) and I got some help from this so went to see my GP. The GP was very unhelpful, amazingly even with my family history he insisted it was not asthma and was in fact stress?! I wasn't stressed one bit but ...

Before you read this opinion maybe you might want a little information about my medical history - I'm a 21 year old who has been diagnosed as Asthmatic for 3 years now although in my own opinion its been there or there abouts since my early teens and its just never been picked up, before my diagnosis I was hardly ever seen anywhere near a doctors surgery and now I'm on a 6 month check-up plan with a specialist Nurse. So onto clearing the uncertainty about this condition, first off what it does, well not much to be honest, to start off with as any asthmatic will tell you we have to be extra-specially careful with any Cold, Flu, Infection or similar ...