asthma and cycling

[longun]

ive asthma,nearly every ride i need to use my inhaler within the first 15 minutes,but am fine afterwards. think the damp weather dont help with me i think its cos im getting older and unfitter lol

just remember you never grow outta asthma and should always be carrying ,i made a near fatal mistake a few years ago and ended up in hospital,hadnt needed my inhaler for around 2 years then all of a sudden 4 days of repiraty issues

 

[Mr Panda]

Ahhhhhh Serotide and Ventolin, my favourite breakfast

Dust and some food preservatives trigger me off :evil: Ggenerally under control though....................................

Actually thinking about it - the more i exercise the less I get it.

 

[cyfa2809]

i used to get that to an extent, it seems to have worn off now though. it was probably exercise induced looking back on it

i do get a sore jaw in the cold, like it goes numb and sometimes i get whats above, the feeling like you cant take in enough air :?
anyone else get a sore jaw in the cold? or when you ride too hard?

 

[Neil]

i do get a sore jaw in the cold, like it goes numb and sometimes i get whats above, the feeling like you cant take in enough air :?
anyone else get a sore jaw in the cold? or when you ride too hard?

Sounds a bit like neuralgia - I used to know somebody who sometimes had the same symptoms.

They're dead, now. I very much suspect the two things aren't connected - if that's any consolation

 

[IDB1]

i do get a sore jaw in the cold, like it goes numb and sometimes i get whats above, the feeling like you cant take in enough air :?
anyone else get a sore jaw in the cold? or when you ride too hard?

Sounds a bit like neuralgia - I used to know somebody who sometimes had the same symptoms.

They're dead, now. I very much suspect the two things aren't connected - if that's any consolation

 

[old_coyote_pedaller]

Dust and some food preservatives trigger me off :evil: Ggenerally under control though....................................

Actually thinking about it - the more i exercise the less I get it.

Food preservatives sometimes affect me as well. Occasionally after eating an apple, of all things, I get a mild wheeze which goes away on it's own. Must be some coating/chemical they are treated with.
When I was at University I accidentally breathed in a sulphur dioxide that we'd been bubbling through water in an experiment. Felt like someone had punched me hard in the face that went all the way down to my lungs.
Many years later I did virtually the same thing, stupid me. I was doing homebrew and sterilising the brew bin and the equipment in the bathroom. The sterilising solution gives off sulphur dioxide gas and when I'd left the equipment soaking for a while I went back into bog, bent over bath, emptied the stuff out and managed to get a couple of breaths of gas before I could get out. I thought I was going to die, almost blacked out in bathroom, was on the floor coughing like gas victim from WW1.
So I might have caused my asthma by my stupidity in making my lungs more sensitive. Very wary of sterilising solutions now.

The exercise thing you mention is the same for me, the fitter I am the less I'm bothered, don't need to use my inhaler for months at a time.

 

[cyfa2809]

i do get a sore jaw in the cold, like it goes numb and sometimes i get whats above, the feeling like you cant take in enough air :?
anyone else get a sore jaw in the cold? or when you ride too hard?

Sounds a bit like neuralgia - I used to know somebody who sometimes had the same symptoms.

They're dead, now. I very much suspect the two things aren't connected - if that's any consolation

im very much consoled now!

 

[Mr Panda]

Dust and some food preservatives trigger me off :evil: Ggenerally under control though....................................

Actually thinking about it - the more i exercise the less I get it.

When I was at University I accidentally breathed in a sulphur dioxide that we'd been bubbling through water in an experiment. Felt like someone had punched me hard in the face that went all the way down to my lungs.
Many years later I did virtually the same thing, stupid me. I was doing homebrew and sterilising the brew bin and the equipment in the bathroom. The sterilising solution gives off sulphur dioxide gas and when I'd left the equipment soaking for a while I went back into bog, bent over bath, emptied the stuff out and managed to get a couple of breaths of gas before I could get out. I thought I was going to die, almost blacked out in bathroom, was on the floor coughing like gas victim from WW1.
So I might have caused my asthma by my stupidity in making my lungs more sensitive. Very wary of sterilising solutions now.

The exercise thing you mention is the same for me, the fitter I am the less I'm bothered, don't need to use my inhaler for months at a time.

SO2 and home brew kits - excellent :!: that one always used to get me too

 

[legrandefromage]

went out today, same route, same bike and not a squeak!

I'd been working outside all morning in the frosty air. Went out later, up the local hills without much of a problem and same on the way home.