I was born at 29 weeks and my mother smoked around me from birth. Not a great combination I know! A few years ago I started to struggle with my breathing a lot. I’d find if I was in the shower for a while and it was hot my chest would get very tight. When I got colds they were horrendous and I found it very hard to breathe. I got given an emergency reliever inhaler and was supposed to go for a full asthma test but never got a call back. I recently changed doctors and my GP just laughed and shrugged me off because of my age. Didn’t even use a spirometer. I’m really struggling. I can’t workout as I’m breathless within 5 mins, I can’t be around people spraying deodorant and such as it gets caught in my chest and I feel like I can’t breathe. I never used to feel this way so it’s got progressively worse. I don’t smoke or anything like that and am fairly healthy. Would my GP take me seriously if I mention I was very premature and my mother exposed me to years of secondhand smoke?
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