To think that if you live with an adult with asthma...

[MummySparkle]

...They should be responsible for ensuring they have an inhaler with them / know where their inhalers are / bring one upstairs to bed with them?

I am fed up of being DPs inhaler-minder. I am more than happy to order & collect a repeat prescription for him whenever necessary. I am fed up of being about to get into bed and DP saying 'do you know where an inhaler is?' Or 'can you find me an inhaler' Or 'I left my inhaler downstairs, can you get it please?' If I don't get one then he says 'oh I won't bother, I'll be alright' but I know he usually wakes up in the night needing one.

Tonight's was 'can you do me a favour please? There aren't any working inhalers in the house, but I think there is one in my car, can you get it?' Now he does have broken ribs at the moment (but this has gone on long before the ribs) So it's painful for him to rummage about in his car. But why wait to ask me until I was undressed and in bed? Drives me mad!!!

Does anyone else live with a rubbish asthmatic?

My phone dislikes this thread, that's the third time I've written a reply and it's not posted!!

I will make an appointment for him to have a review. Hopefully at a time that I can make too. I asked DP, he says he uses his inhaler about 4 times a day, two doses each time (I think it's more than 4 times a day though) 1 first thing, one just before bed. I'd say one or two every evening, one after he's had a cigarette, and then throughout the day when I'm at work too.

In theory he has one inhaler by the bed, one downstairs that also goes out with him, and one in his sports bag. But he is forever leaving them in his car. Then the upstairs one comes downstairs, goes out, gets left in the car... I'm half tempted to chain one to his bedside table so he has to keep one on him at all times.

He is terrible for losing them though. He got a terrible chest infection a few years back from using an inhaler that had gone mouldy inside and was probably out of date too. He's terrible at keeping the lids on them as well. Think I might have to make him a man-pouch to keep it in!! Tell him that until he has stopped asking me to find one for a whole month then he has to wear it at all times

Omg OP you could be me! I aliken it to me expecting my DH to supply me with tampons and be responsible for me when I run out or remind me I am low on tampons or bring them with him when we go out! Argh!

Grrr and he smokes as well? . I would definitely grass him up to asthma nurse.

He's an asthmatic and a smoker!!!!!!!!

I used to use my blue inhaler that often, when I changed doctors surgery they were horrified and immediately put me on a brown preventer which made a huge difference, I now use the blue one less than once a week.

I've never had an actual asthma attack, but I carry my blue inhaler all the time and take my brown one properly.

Yes to checking how he's using it and definitely get an asthma review asap

He's got broken ribs and having an asthmatic wheeze moment...I can see why he wants you to get his inhalers for him. Broken ribs fecking well hurt, and at night when you're wheezy as well, I totally get why he'd want you to be awake and Looking After Him, or at least to get his inhaler for him.

However... the weeks/months before the broken rubs - I get your frustration! That's pretty rubbish.

I have asthma, and generally have one blue reliever at a time. I also use symbicort (which is a combined reliever/preventer), though I struggle to take this properly if am breathless, so IMO isn't good as a reliever...

Our asthma nurse absolutely checks how often you are getting inhalers on repeat and measures consumption. If no one has called him on the rate he is getting through them, they are doing him no favours.

Hope the review goes well, OP.

Is there any way he would try a vape stick?
I cannot believe how many years I smoked and how bad my asthma was to the change now with vaping. And I really really did not want to stop smoking at the time but was also using inhaler after smoking quite a bit...
You can't make him, but he could give it a go and see if he feels better? Perhaps at night, because when you lie down asthma seems to be so much worse