From the article: Asthma Symptoms: What You Need To Know
While there are classic symptoms of asthma- cough, shortness or breath, and chest tightness, every patient is different. Some people present with all of these symptoms, while others may only present with one. What symptoms led to you being diagnosed with asthma?
Sleepover attack
- I was almost 13 and my best friend was having a sleepover for her birthday, there were 8 of us in total and we were having a fantastic time. It was really late and only half of us were awake, we decided to wait ten minutes to switch on the light, but that was when my asthma flared up; I was wheezing and shaking so bad, I almost fell over. Luckily I found my medication just in time.
- —Guest Anna
asthma symptoms
- for a few weeks cough and wheezing and tightness in neck and chess. I saw 4 doctors , one said chest infection i will get over it. the other one said panic attacks its all in my head . The other one gave preventer. And finally the last savour incresed my medication and gave antibiotics. I feel great can breath back, too the gym and can bring the phlegm up. I was a smoker i stopped 3 months ago but realised i have had bouts of asthma for the last couple of years i just thought it was from the smoking like a smokers cough.
- —Guest kristy
Symptoms?
- Yikes... my first symptom of having asthma was a full blown asthma attack when I was 14. I was laughing really hard with some of my friends who were at my house for a sleepover, and I couldn't catch my breath, just kept coughing and hacking... My mom took me outside in the cool damp air until it passed... The next day she called my doctor and he said we needed to come in ASAP. I was diagnosed with Asthma the following day. My life has never been the same since.
- —Guest Melinda
No voice w/ other symptoms
- Last bout included loosing my voice! Had no idea that could happen, but a new ashthma med (inhaler) brought it back within hours and it had been gone for days. Had typical synus/cold sypmtoms for days too.
- —Guest Clare
asthsma
- I was not really diagnosed with adult asthsma until 2010 when I went by ambulance to Georgetown Hospital's ER due to a chronic bronchial spasm attack where I ended up on my hands and knees when I couldn't get my breath when my windpipe closed. I always had terrible coughs in winter, attributing it to sinus infections. I always needed Levaquin to rid myself of them. Yet, I kept being prescribed inhalers with no one really saying why. Finally, a nurse practitioner, after the ER visit, gave me two Rx's for emergency inhalers+more powerful ones since the worse coughing incidents are @ home.
- —msherrett
Symptoms That Led To MY Diagnosis
- I have CVA (cough variant asthma). I have shortness of breath, chronic dry cough, and chest tightening.
- —Guest Mandy
Persistent Primary Care Physician
- Now, as I read and look back, I understand I've had this as a child. My dad would stick a bag over my face as I wheezed thinking I was hyperventilating. A doctor tried to tell me to get tested but I listened to my now EX husband, who supposedly had asthma tell me I was a hypochondriac when I told him a doctor wanted me tested following yet another bout of pneumonia. Finally, at the age of 54 following yet another case of bronchitis my doctor pushed for me to get tested. I did smoke as well but quit smoking 14 years prior. I was finally tested diagnosed with severe asthma and COPD. My lungs empty out the air more often now, I don't feel like I need to drink copious amounts of coffee. I can breath in the summer most of the time, without convincing myself I'm okay that it's normal to fight to breath when it's humid. But the symptom that led to the diagnosis... all the bronchitis.
- —Guest Gerryann
Diagnosed twice.
- I was actually diagnosed twice: First as an infant (wheezing, shortness of breath, panting and low endurance were what my mom tipped the doctor off to, and I was severe enough with a long enough family history that the doc felt safe in making the diagnosis then), and again when it flared up in university after taking a brief hiatus in my teen years. In university, I didn't recognize it as asthma because it was chronic severe cough (bad enough that I would be driven to my knees and/or throw up), chest tightness, shortness of breath and chest pain that was my problem - but no wheezing. As a kid, i was always a huge wheezer, and it really was my number one symptom, so I didn't recognize that my asthma might be back without it.
- —Guest Sarah
persistant cough during cold weather
- when cold weather approaches with or without asthma drugs the cough is persistent my Doctor say it can happen. I thought he was not sure and went to another doctor who said that such coughs are normal with patients who have been changing drugs.
- —Guest joseph
Air-trapping
- Ive been a severe refractory asthmatic since early childhood ( I'm 56 years old now), and have been hospitalized and intubated countless times, but the symptom I hate the most is air-trapping and the low level chronic breathlessness ( the inability to exhale). I would rather have a full- on , near fatal exacerbation, than to deal with prolonged bouts of air -trapping. It's truly the purgatory of asthma.
- —Breathinstephen
Constant Cough/Chest Tightness
- Now that I have researched asthma, I realize that I probably had it as a child-it was just not diagnosed. I had constant bouts of bronchitis as a child, and later I dealt with chronic sinus issues. Finally, a doctor was savvy enough to recognize my host of symptoms as allergies and asthma. It was a long journey to find the right balance of medication, and I am still struggling with the allergies.
- —Bekka76
jackie
- I am now having to use oxygen most all the time.i say it is a bummer!!They tested me and founda both asthma, hhmmm kve
- —Guest jackie
asthma
- Cough:A cough that produced large amount of mucus. Shortness of breath : shortness of breath especially with phyical activity. wheezing:A whistling or squealy sound when i breath Thightness: Chest Tightness.
- —Guest kripani mehta
Traachea shuts down
- Im having trouble with the cold at the moment, my trachea shuts down, and the mucus is constant, i can actually feel my wind pipe shrink, and it is quite painful then the air ways in my lungs hurt like the cold is infused in them. I get light headed, and cold also. I cannot run outside at all in the cold, as it shuts immediately, and im having trouble energy really bad. I would like to sleep, but most of the time sleep is hard as i have to wake up to inhale puffer alot and my throat stings from the cold.
- —Guest Golddragon
asthma or not
- I have a son that has a continual cough, tired, flushed face. He always has bronchitis.
- —Guest Karen
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