Chest feels like crap — to get tested?

[Bubblemonkey]

I may very well just be paranoid..

I am asthmatic, I’ve been diagnosed since ‘97. I spent 5 months off work with my asthma, shielding, gone back & apparently nobody wants to distance & they will practically sit on your knee to chat.

The last couple of days, my chest has felt awful. I’m not particularly coughing, mostly just tight chested & bouts of shortness of breath which isn’t particularly unusual for me when my asthma flares up. I’ve got no temperature (barely scraped 37), no altered sense of smell & taste, no other weird symptoms. My salbutamol is helping which is making me think it’s more likely to be my asthma than COVID.

Do I book a test in, to be on the safe side? I don’t want to waste a test if it’s just my asthma playing up.

It doesnt sound very covid-y tbf, not without any other symptoms. Do you have any of the other symptoms- watery eyes, sore throat, headaches? Do you use a preventor inhaler as well as the salbutamol?

I think it depends where you are. If you’re in an area that they’re trying to do more tests, they’ll do them even if you’ve got no symptoms. If you’re not, you might need one of the “get tested” symptoms - or at least you do where I am at the moment, I’m presuming it’s the same everywhere.

FWIW, I’ve got a lot of people on social media talking about their asthma being bad at the moment, but I haven’t seen any decent explanations as to why! But if you’re worried, I’d talk to your doctor or get tested. I don’t think Salbutamol would help if it was Corona, so it probably is asthma, but uncontrolled asthma is pretty scary too.

I hope you feel better soon

I’m under the hospital for my asthma, I’m on high dose inhaled steroids, a long acting bronchodilator & some other tablets which I’m not quite sure what they’re for. I get quite bad hayfever so watery itchy eyed, snuffly nose, etc is a daily thing for half of the year

You have Asthma, not COVID