Feeling palmed off by Dr

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Both me and my dd have had a sore through and mild bad chest (cant describe any other way). No asthma in the family, I don't smoke, drink and I run ALOT. My doctor think we both may have asthma. I can agree my dd has has a cough what seems a life time. But myself I find it hard to believe.

It is increasingly common for adults to develop asthma and allergies. Both DH and I have started to suffer hay fever within the last few years (I now have a massive problem with London plane trees in the autumn, to the extent I have to avoid some streets) and for several months following a bad virus I had problems breathing as I went to sleep.

Google "adult onset asthma". I found the Buteyko Method really helpful.

Why do you feel palmed off? What do you think might be wrong with you?

I suffer with anxiety. So jn always worried about not being able to breath. I went or a sore throat and what I thought was a chest infection. I haven been coughing or gasping for breath leave wheezing. But nowmy anxiety is high because I'm worried about my breathing.

Do try Buteyko then. You will find the basics on line so no need to pay anything. No drugs either. Cynics argue that one reason it is not more used is that it is not supported by drug companies so the relevent trials have not been done.

Who knows. However by working on slowing your breathing it should reduce anxiety and thus help with the symptons. Its sort of the equivalent of making someone with a panic attack breathe into a paper bag. All I know if that I had symptoms of asthma for months following a bad virus and then by having a mechanism to deal with them, they gradually disappeared. Maybe they would have gone anyway but breathing exercises would have done no harm. I also found it helped with insomnia, as a way of relaxing if I woke up in the middle of the night.