Having asthma attack. Have taken ventiolin and seretide

[Heyjudas]

Anything else I can do?

There is also a form of asthma called Silent, or Brittle asthma. It’s very dangerous because you don’t wheeze you just can’t get air in or out if your lungs and can go into respiratory arrest. It used to be called suffocating asthma. Don’t take a chance.

I doubt my lungs are in the best condition. I've had SARS. But this feels more like my lungs are refusing to function than that my lungs are full of gunk and can't function.

Stupid lungs. I would scream if I could. Fucking lungs. Work. You have ONE FUCKING JOB TO DO.

I feel ok now, but I know it will come back in an hour or so and hit me again. Stupid thing. I hate asthma.

I know because I have spent 28 years looking after my child who has severe, brittle, silent asthma.

I love cats, can't have one, because guess why? I'm allergic to them. I just want to cry.

www.asthma.org.uk/advice/manage-your-asthma/emotional-support/anxiety/
Scroll down the page gives advice about differentiating between asthma and a panic attack.
If in doubt call 999 the paramedics can measure your oxygen saturation level and peak flow etc

Why do your lungs just decide they want to take a little time out?

I get it. Asthma sucks. My daughter was blue lighted in two weeks ago because she walked past Christmas trees outside Tesco. She can't have cats. I had to rehome my beloved cat when she was a toddler because it was either rehome the cat or spend every other week in HDU with my blue child. Asthma treatments stunted her growth. The same treatments that almost took my son from me because they switched off his adrenal glands. I know asthma sucks. But there are other treatments that can help and asthma reviews can help asthma to be better managed.

I've been through one of these reviews last year. There is nothing they will do to help.

You need to get to a doctor. Even if the acute attack is passing you should still see someone in A&E. Three attacks in one week is very bad. Don't dismiss it, that's how you end up dead. You might need a steroid burst or oxygen and you ceryainly need monitoring.

Is that a review with your GP?

My inhaler is a steroid inhaler and I take that twice a day.

Why do you think a tick box exercise by a nurse might help me?

In the nicest possible way, stop feeling sorry for yourself and seek some proper medical advice about what you should do right now.

I've been through one of these reviews last year

But above you say you haven't had an asthma attack since you were a teenager and now you've had 3 in a week. Things have changed.

DS has asthma (and eczema and food allergies), he seems to have flare ups when everything gets worse for a bit and then he ends up in hospital on oxygen and oral steroids and that calms everything down again.

Because there are other medications that can be used to manage asthma, you have only mentioned seretide and ventolin.

My inhaler is a steroid inhaler and I take that twice a day.

Yes, you said that before. But a doctor can put you on a short course of oral or intravenous steroids at high level to get your current series of attacks under control. Your inhaler is a regular low dose direct to the lungs to prevent attacks but it's not working at the moment so you need a review.

Don't fuck about with asthma
I did and ended up arresting

I was like you, didn't take it seriously, had had a few attacks over the week but largely ignored them as I felt well otherwise

I have silent asthma so no wheezing just literally unable to breathe

By the time I got to hospital I was barely breathing

On discharge a consultant had a very stern word with me and told me quite bluntly that I was a bloody idiot

Asthma kills

I know a lot about asthma and you definitely need a proper medication review if your current regime is no longer working for you. I think you also need a full respiratory work-up in case this is something other than asthma, particularly given your history. As you're symptomatic at the moment, albeit intermittently, you shouldn't delay getting medical attention. I think you need to go to A&E. You seem resistent to the idea of taking this seriously, which is worrying tbh.

I would second getting looked at now. It could be that you panicked, and the jitters you get from taking a lot of ventolin can also make you feel panicky, but I'd be looking at a visit to the walk in centre at the very least. You also need an urgent review tomorrow.

I had my first proper asthma attack at 35 and since then I've had a few apparently random episodes that start very suddenly and require intervention. I'm told this is quite a common pattern, but not one that is well publicised.

Asthma review is stupid

No, you're being stupid. You've had extreme difficulty breathing tonight but you're dismissing people telling you to see the medics? Clearly something is affecting you differently, but rather than start finding out what or getting treatment you'd rather be all superior on here. Guess what, other posters have asthma too and take it seriously. I wish you would. If you really think this will happen again in an hour, go to A&E.

This would appear to be a far more appropriate reason to dial 999 than most. In A&E, if necessary, as you probably know, you could have oxygen. You could have nebulised salbutamol and ipratropium. You could have oral, or IV, steroids. If not improving you could have IV magnesium sulphate, and either a salbutamol infusion or an aminophylline infusion. If, heaven forfend, you actually stopped breathing, they could deal with that.

Or you could stay at home, ignore how sick you are, look for sympathy online, and cross your fingers it doesn't come back worse in an hour.

I also have asthma and this little pitty party your throwing for yourself has annoyed me. As people above have said asthma kills. Go to your review and get it sorted or the next one could kill you.

Going to pm you op