I've been suffering an upper respiratory tract thing with tickly irritating cough and white sputum for around a fortnight. I've generally felt okay with it except for finding the coughing annoying. The coughing has been considerably worse at night - waking me 4/5 times for fits of hacking. That had reduced to once per night and I woke at 4.30 on Wednesday to cough - and then couldn't breathe - AT ALL - for a 1-2 minutes. I was trying to inhale with all my might and nothing was happening - was making a death rattle noise. It gradually eased off, but then I coughed and same thing happened again. It was terrifying. At that point dh called ambulance.
It eased before ambulance arrived but they took me in anyway. By the time I got to hosp my breathing was normal, I felt fine. My oxygen sats were normal, a chest x-ray was fine and my bloods. They didn't say so but probably thought I was a drama queen. They did a peak flow but the 10 year old casualty doctor (honestly - she was a bit green bless her) didn't comment on whether that was as it should be. They said they thought it was bronchospasm and they sent me home with a salbutamol inhaler and told me to go to my GPs in the next week or two to investigate whether or not I had asthma.
Later that day I got increasingly worried about the impending night ahead and so rang my GP practice. The Practice nurse asked me to pop in and tried to reassure me - she said it probably wouldn't happen again but that if it did to contact her tomorrow.
That night I slept sitting upright - hoping that would help. No problems
Last night I slept supine - no problems
This morning I have coughed a few times and had that same airways spasm issue - I didn't panick and managed to take some salbutamol and it eased off. But this isn't normal is it?
I must have adult onsett asthma or something?
I've rung surgery to ask Practice Nurse to phone me