Asthma... My first visit to Asthma Nurse...

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After describing my symptoms on here (and several recommendations to see GP)...advice which i ignored ....

woke up at 5 wheezing lightly....on breathing out

I went to asda today...and after 30mins walking round pushing a trolley - was breathing heavily as if i had run a marathon. Then when i got home i started coughing.

so i rang the GP... and the receptionist got the duty team to phone-and i described my symptoms...and she asked me to come to have my breathing checked at 8.45 tomorrow morning

she even linked my general feelings of tiredness/achiness to my possible asthma- as she says breathing is laboured and not enogh oxygen reaching muscles...could this be true?

could that mean then that if it is asthma...and i get inhalers...and feel better again- that i will have the energy i used to have????

Yes, it's really easily controlled - I've had to take my preventer inhaler for about 8 months as my asthma got v bad after DD was born.

I don't notice it now.

Yes, poorly controlled asthma does make you feel tired because less oxygen is getting to the muscles.

Yes, once your asthma is under control you should feel much more like your old self.

well...i've come away with a prescription for allergy- Fexofenadine- and a ventolin inhaler.

Peak-flow was good- no wheezing...and cos it's hayfever season.....

he said this should make a difference....and to book GP appointment if no better in a week. He did tell me how ill hayfever can make people- did't trivialise my symptoms...but just feel...yet again...cos my body didn't perform on the day the way it was yesterday...that i am a fraud

IF the tablets work (and I DON'T have asthma- i will be relieved...)

however i am not convinced about the hayfever - as I have felt like this on and off for months- so seeing as i've gone through all the 'dustmite' possibilities (new pillows/quilt/shampooed carpet with antil-allergy stuff) ...then i must just be allergic to life!

(sorry- but i'm fed up now....about to pop the first pill- try inhaler...and hope that it does all work....then i will report back on here with my usual smiley chat...fingers crossed)

Have you been checked for anaemia? That can make you tired and breathless.