What is going on with me?!

[fizzyhair]

today I’ve been feeling a bit weird and I don’t know how to explain it! I think it’s due to the weather suddenly getting colder again today as I felt it during the cold spell in December too and other days it was very cold.

I can breath absolutely fine without even thinking about it so I’m not on deaths door lol, but my whole body and my breathing feels a bit husky (that’s the only word I can use to describe it) or slightly tight. I think it’s slightly wheezy but it doesn’t sound different it just feels different.

Does anyone else get this with cold weather? It’s not as bad when it rains but when it’s dry and sub zero this seems to happen. It was worse in the cold spell in December and I had to keep pushing my shoulders forward to breath deeply enough otherwise I had to breath shallowly or use salbutamol

i have bad hayfever in summer and rely on antihistamines and salbutamol inhaler to be able to breath when that flares up, but I don’t have any hayfever in winter obviously so just a bit confused about why this seems to happen! This winter has been worse so far than last winter maybe because it’s colder

even though it’s not hayfever I took my salbutamol when the symptoms started today (and the last cold spell) and it definitely helped the symptoms, but then it starts to come back again

just to clarify, I’ve been at work and walking about all day fine so it’s not that I can’t breath- I can- it just feels like im all a bit tighter and husky and it’s not as easy as it normally would be IYSWIM.

hope someone else recognises what I mean from my crap description and has any advice!

I suffered similarly a few years back. I noticed that it coincided with the central heating kicking in: CH is a dry heat and so I bought a small water feature and that seems to have cured things. I also take anti histamines for allergies, but now take them during winter also, so that might have contributed to the improvement.

That’s interesting. I’m glad you found something that helped! I’ve been taking antihistamines aswell which are helping but not removing the symptoms completely unfortunately

Dust can cause hayfever symptoms. Rhinitis. Inhaler and antihistamines year round here

I think you should ask your practice nurse to be checked for asthma. A trial preventer inhaler would be a good start.

Radiators cause dust to rise in the winter, so if you're hay fever prone or have a dust allergy, you can get "allergic" asthma. Try taking an oral antihistamine and get a brown inhaler from your GP that you use as a daily preventer during these episodes. The brown inhaler treats the cause, so you won't notice an immediate improvement, but you'll be better over time. The salbutamol relieves symptoms for a few hours only.