Shortness of breath driving me mad

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I am, allegedly, asthmatic. I have a real problem with shortness breath and am on 8 x 100 of clenil a day plus up to 6 lots of ventolin. Neither appear to be working.

I last saw the asthma nurse last week and my peak flow is 450 whicb she says is good. I have previously been on seretide which also didnt help.

Any ideas please? Im due back next week and I really am doubting whether or not im asthmatic as nothing is helping :(

I was also diagnosed as an asthmatic during my finals at uni but it seemed to disappear afterwards . About 15 years later I started to suffer from really bad shortness of breath and was treated with ventolin, steroids and a nebuliser by a succession of GPs in our surgery - nothing really helped. Finally when I was really at the end of my tether and had had an X-ray (showed nothing) as well, I saw the head of our GP practice, a specialist in Asthma and asthmatic himself. He said that Asthma was a shortness of breath on the out breath -but I was struggling to catch my breath - wheezing on the in breath. Turns out I was chronically over breathing- hyperventilating - and that it was part and parcel of panic disorder.
I was really sceptical at first but after having some counselling and being taught some breathing techniques I felt normal again.May be worth mentioning this to your GP. If you google it there is lots of info and you can relearn how to breath and your GP can help you with that.Feeling short of breath is really scary and I hope you manage to work out what is causing this for you
Mx

I get short of breath and have had various investigations. Turns out it is an allergy to something, it's worse in summer but still there in winter so not just pollen. I'm on a long lasting antihistamine which seems to be the only thing that helps.

Could it be anxiety? I've suffered this for years and it really can feel like you're struggling to get a deep breath.

I've also heard that asthma causes problems breathing out rather than in.

Anemia can cause breathlessness.