Adult-onset asthma??

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I’m just wondering if this sounds like adult-onset asthma and whether it’s worth going to the GP about it, the symptoms are very mild.

Ever since I caught COVID 2 years ago whenever I have gotten a cold it’s given me a wheezy cough that lingers for weeks. I went to the GP the first time it happened as I had been coughing for 6 weeks and he listened to my chest and said it sounded normal and was likely a stubborn virus. But it now happens every time I get a cold, and on a normal day to day basis I tend to have a dry wheezy cough in the mornings and evenings, and my throat feels kind of tickly.

I don’t know much about asthma, none of my family members have it. I don’t think I’ll ever get an asthma attack, just an annoying dry cough with a high pitch wheeze. Is it worth going to the GP? I’m 29 and otherwise healthy

Sounds very like my experience. I developed a chronic cough and breathing difficulties after a different respiratory illness. GP dismissed it, so I went undiagnosed for decades. Tthis thread persuaded me to go to the GP again.

I developed asthma at 29! I now take a daily preventer and rarely think about it.

Thanks both, I think I will go to my GP