Advise re chest infection and asthma

[NeurotrashWarrior]

I have mild asthma; my triggers are bugs and chemicals, smoke and sometimes cold air / exercise.

I've caught a little infection, doubled up brown inhaler immediately a few days ago and used blue as I needed. From frequent infections in the last few years before diagnosis I can always tell when it's deeper/ needs antibiotics as it crackles deep down when I breathe out. I sound like I've smoked 50 a day my whole life

I think there's a slight deeper infection as I can feel the crackling deep in the left side but only slight.

I haven't actually had a full infection since I was diagnosed as the inhalers have always caught it.

I'm just wondering how long to leave it / see if it clears it's self? I used to battle on but developed pneumonia twice (pre diagnosis) so sort of never know how seriously to take it now and if to just try to ride it out for longer (it's been 4 days of slight rattle that comes and goes). Obviously I don't want to bother the Gp and take antibiotics unnecessarily.

I being woken two hourly by teething baby which doesn't help.

My daughter has this. In our experience, the sooner she has antibiotics, the more likely she is to avoid steroids and/or hospital. So I would bother the GP now!

Thanks. I hate having to take them but the sound is there. If I wasn't breastfeeding a baby and was getting buckets of sleep I might ride it out to see where it goes except in the past it also led to borderline cfs.