Asthma

[The Ken]

As I've had it all my life, I'm used to it and usually have a puff after the first mile of a ride, I often ride through astham attacks!

theres always a few weeks in July when the weather and tree pollen combine to leave me a wheezing wreck.

Everything you said here applies to me, Including riding through minor attacks, give you a sort of buzz doesn't it

The clammy weather and tree pollen is really getting me, usually about 7-8 at night when the pollen falls again. I normal use my blue inhaler 1 a week, now on it twice a day along with double dose of brown.

I hope the anti pig jab arrives before the flu.

 

[gibbleking]

i got rid of mine by working on a building site ...one would think with all that dust it would have the opposite effect but it didnt.can now cycle off road for 60 miles and not do too badly now.

 

[legrandefromage]

As I've had it all my life, I'm used to it and usually have a puff after the first mile of a ride, I often ride through astham attacks!

theres always a few weeks in July when the weather and tree pollen combine to leave me a wheezing wreck.

Everything you said here applies to me, Including riding through minor attacks, give you a sort of buzz doesn't it

The clammy weather and tree pollen is really getting me, usually about 7-8 at night when the pollen falls again. I normal use my blue inhaler 1 a week, now on it twice a day along with double dose of brown.

I hope the anti pig jab arrives before the flu.

eeek! using my bluey about 10 times a day this week.

no other medication though. Check-up tomorrow.

 

[Mr Panda]

Me too - last couple of months have seen the ventolin stocks taking a beating. Can usually go for weeks without touching the stuff.

Also get the exercise induced thing but a couple of shots at the beginning of a walk/cycle usually sorts that for the remainder of the day. Exercise generally seems to help the condition overall though, in my case.
Wifey came hiome with a special prescription the other day - gets you three months medication for £13 regardless of how much you need I think. Could be a good deal this weather

bloomin' itchy eyes this week :evil:

 

[losidan]

I've had it all my life. I was struggling with it until a few years ago...seems ok at the mo. losing weight seems to be help me. I am a real stickler for taking my medication....seretide morning and night and a squirt of ventolin before a ride...and taking it properly. I lose my rag with a buddy at work who is sloppy taking his all the time. I got careless a few years ago and was rewarded with 10 days in the hospital as a result

 

[ferrus]

I found Seretide to be a bit of a marvel as a preventitive, and much more effective than 'the brown one' (Becotide?).
Haven't had asthma at all for a couple of years, but it's been bad for the last few weeks. Sore eyes and much sneezing too. :?

-Will have to asthma doctor about it.. ~

 

[losidan]

I found Seretide to be a bit of a marvel as a preventitive, and much more effective than 'the brown one' (Becotide?).
Haven't had asthma at all for a couple of years, but it's been bad for the last few weeks. Sore eyes and much sneezing too. :?

-Will have to asthma doctor about it.. ~

One thing I have heard about seretide is that it can make you pile weight on...Something I have done and a friend of the family when she went onto it...Mine is partially attributable to too much curry and not enough exercise...

 

[PurpleFrog]

Re asthma - and hayfever - has anyone used those LED things that Lloyds have on sale? You stick the LED up your nose, said nose glows Rudolph style for 2 minutes, repeat several times each day. It is supposed to reduce sensitivity to pollen for moderately good scientific reasons - there's at least one decent looking controlled study and threads about the things all over the net. A lot of people do think they work:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/sho ... 91&page=10

They were expensive, but Lloyds had/has them on sale at £15. I tried one, and this hasn't been a bad year for hayfever for me at all. Of course, I might still have been fine without the thing.

 

[legrandefromage]

Asthama and exercise has left me built like a small well armed troop carrier.

I think the 'a few years ago' caught a lot of people out after a nasty thunderstorm and winds from the continent gaves us some weird atmospheric conditions. I had a spell in A&E that put on the medication that comes before they knock you out for a respirator. :shock:

never been that ill before or since.

 

[gibbleking]

my right lung whent pop because of it once...had air bubbles in the chest wall and neck....weird thing was you could move the air bubbles in the neck lick that pop seaweed stuff.couldnt lay downcos it hurt so much so i sat up for 3 days.had a neck like a tyre and daffy duck for a voice cos of the swelling.had steroids for 6 weeks after my lovely 10 day stay in the norfolk and norwich.on the last day cos i was so fed up with the food i got dominoe pizza to deliver to my bed ....got 1 or 2 funny looks.i had the damn asthma since i moved from the ddr in 84 so it seems its just this dump im allergic to.