My Experience of Asthma Reviews

- ASTHMA - Asthma is a debilitating condition, and you should be aware of the symptoms to correctly diagnose it. Asthma affects approximately 20 million people in the United States alone, and identifying the condition is intrinsic to learning how to handle it effectively. I have suffered with asthma since quite a young age ...

AsI have had a few bad attacks lately I thought I would write about it and it may help others. I was diagnosed with Asthma at the age of 6. Nothing in particular triggered it- except what seemed to be excitement about Xmas! The doctor I saw as a young child was a great believer in mind over matter and insisted to my parents that " ...

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 ...

I would first like to say that my experience of asthma will be very different to the majority of asthma sufferers as i have severe form of the disease and wanted to make it clear that most people (95%) with asthma will be able to get it under control and experience very few symptoms. History: I was diagnosed at age 11 after ...

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 ...

Did you know that one in ten children in the UK have asthma?That's a total of 1.1 million youngsters who at times struggle to fill their lungs with air. It's an hereditary condition, which means if one parent has a history of asthma in their family, their child has a good chance of developing the condition, but if both parents have the history ...

I was first diagnosed with asthma when I was about seven years old. I was taken to the doctor after I'd developed breathing problems during a PE lesson. The doctor said it could have been to do with my heart murmer, which I was born with. For those of you who don't know that's when your heart has an irregular beat. My Dad's ...

I am a midget! I am only 4 foot 6. Everything about me is smaller than a tall person. My lungs are small and I have asthma. Asthma can be caused my many things, such as food allergies, tobacco, cold air, animal dander and even exercise. The doctors say that I have bronchical asthma. So does my dad and my brother. ...

Since starting work, my asthma has decided to kick off, due to all the dust, it has continually got worst to the point where I have had to go back to the doctors. Now I am not one to go yapping to the doctor with all my disabilities, but I also am quite aware that this can also kill you. I used to be terrible for ...

I was diagnosed with asthma as a toddler, but being truthful I cannot remember it having any adverse affects on my life. My parents thought it must have been a childhood ailment as it seemed to fade and the attacks became far less frequent as I grew up. Then when I was 17, I decided that I wanted to make a career for myself in The Royal Air Force. ...

My son was ten weeks old when he developed severe eczema all over his body and head, but fortunately not his face. I didn’t realise then that he was going to develop allergies, although I have a milk allergy myself and there are various allergies, eczema and asthma in my family. At the age of eighteen months we did a house-swap ...

I have suffered from asthma since I was five years old. Apparently, I developed it after a particularly nasty bout of whooping cough. No-one knows why some people develop asthma and others don’t, and no-one is sure why the number of people who suffer from asthma is increasing. For those afflicted, particularly children, it is a painful, ...

When I was at secondary school and the sadistic games teacher (who looked like a man, incidentally) would make the class sprint round the field (while she sat and read a magazine)I would come back wheezing and gasping for breath. I told my Mum that I thought I had asthma, only to be told that I was being a hypocondriac. -----Fast forward ...

Oh no it's not! Asthma sufferers have my full sympathy as I have been there in the past but I am luckily no longer a sufferer. Asthma is generally associated with the young as it tends to appear more commonly in childhood and can be triggered by a number of things but most commonly pollutants in the air, house dust, bed mites and allergies ...

I appreciate now that my comments have been placed in the wrong category as essentially I am reviewing the website rather than asthma. I will give this opinion a bad overall rating that is aimed at asthma. But the site is very good. Sorry for the confusion but this was my first effort. I am an active person and was quite alarmed when ...

I have had asthma all my life, but didn’t actually know about it until I was aged 9 and I was dragged to Devon. My asthma suddenly took control and demanded that I knew it was there. I can actually remember getting my first asthma attack and it was while I was riding my bike around the garden. I ran into mum telling her I couldn’t ...

One of my earliest memories is of my mother, hanging me outside the window of my bedroom, slapping me on my back and telling me to “breath!”. I was ill with bronchitis and was having great difficulty in drawing a breath, as the night progressed I grew weaker and more tired until exhaustion took over and I hadn’t the strength, ...

I've had asthma since i was very young. It used to scare my parents witless - hardly surprising as sometimes I'd go almost blue! I remeber the doctor coming round and getting me to try some inhalers when I was about 4. I chose a blue one which I liked the taste of best (not that it tastes nice, but it's OK!). As I got ...

Now many people may not believe this but I had asthma and then recovered completely from it after 1 year. It started when I worked as a porter in Guys Hospital doing agency work. One day I was pushing a patient down to X-Ray when I really had problems taking breaths and had to radio in to get help as I really thought I was going to ...

Before I launch you, dear reader, unsuspecting into my own personal experience of this condition, let me tell you what my good friend Jeeves has to say about it. I typed in ‘what is asthma?’, and this was the first answer he came up with (from www.infoplease.com): * * * ASTHMA: chronic inflammatory respiratory disease ...