mystery asthma only at night

i was curious if anybody suffers from this or knows about this. i only get asthma at night, sometimes slight other times so bad i cannot sleep cos my bronchial tubes are so constricted i can hardly breathe. i dont want to be a slave to an inhaler as imho that only treats a symptom and not the cause. i have noticed that on occasion coffee or wormwood/black walnut extract help if i take it before bed when i feel my chest tightening. i've seen a naturopath and had breathing treatments done which helped alleviate the severity of the asthma, but did not make it go away. quercitin did not help either. when i have a bad case of it during the night, the next morning i am constantly blowing my nose. no cough or head cold symptoms, just a severe runny nose for a few hours.

so did i inhale something that got deep into my lungs that causes me problems only at night? could this be a mold/fungus? should i have a mold inspection at my house? and it is not only when i sleep at my place - other peoples houses, hotels, camping, etc. and like i said, sometimes it is bad, sometimes mild. i've had a course of antibiotics and used collodial silver in case it was bacterial but since it did not go away i doubt it was bacterial in nature/cause.

i am fine during physical activity (weight training, surfing, tai chi, walks); however i am not a runner or cyclist so i do not know if it would appear if i did some heavy aerobic activity (i keep my exercise to anaerobic).

any help or suggestions would be great. i am at a total loss and so are my doctors.

nope - no GERD. i would think with GERD i'd be tasting something or having a burning in my throat. this is a tightness in the lungs/chest accompanied with a lot of wheezing making deep breathing impossible.

that is what i was thinking too, but those things havent changed in years. all i can think of is mold in my house or i have a deep lung infection of some sort. the last 2 nights i had no problems and slept well. that was nice. i hope get more of those.

Coughing at night is a classic symptom of .."Cough Variant Asthma"-!

Ever had that looked into? Robert

See a pulmonologist, and get a referral for a sleep study and an allergest. It could be allergies, sleep apena, sinus, etc. Only way to track down your mystery is doing tests. A sleep study is odd. But worth it. You sleep with a ton of wires on you and goo in your hair. But it tells you if you cant get enough oxygen when your sleeping. Sometimes it can be mistaken as "night asthma"

Nights were alway the worst for me then be all choked up in the am......