Trying to understand asthma

Hello and welcome to Healing Well! It sounds like you have the same thing as me. Are you claustrophobic by any chance? I am and that helps trigger anxiety attacks. Also, when you have one, do you get dizzy, short of breath, and/or do your limbs start to get shaky? That happens to me when I am around alot of people or when I get nervous. I also get like that when I do exercising too. What I do is sit down somewhere and take deep breaths. Usually after about 5 or 10 mins. tops, the feeling goes away. I hope this helps you!!


NicholsTears

There is some corrolation between anxiety and asthma and I'd started a post re that somewhere here tongue ~ Especially in younger people.

I was born with Asthma.I learned as a child NOT to panic when I had trouble breathing.I still do not panic,& use my inhaler as I'm supposed to.

Hi Scottish Smurf,

Were you diagnosed with asthma? Have you always had it, or just recently diagnosed with this pregnancy? Are you having shortness of breath with the panic attacks, or prior to? You say you are using an inhaler. Are you using Albuterol? If you are, make sure you have a spacer to go along with it. It provides a space so you get more of your medication in your lungs instead of depositing in your mouth or going out in the air. You should wait 1 minute between puffs. This allows the first puff to start working and the 2nd can deposit deeper in your lungs. If you are taking an inhaler that is a streriod,(steriods reduce the inflamation on the lung tissue) make sure you rinse your mouth after. If you don't, you can get mouth sores or thrush. Remember don't abuse your inhaler. If it is not helping, and you can't breathe, see your doctor, or go to the hospital.

Cathy, thanks for that info! - you are right on! yeah When I was using another med. besides my Advair Discus, I started using the spacer - and it did work a lot better!

Thanks every one that are helping.

I was diagnosed with asthma with it about 12years ago but it was never bad and it seamed to pass.. Then 12years later I was feeling funny one day and could not breath started to panic, as I did not know what was wrong with me.. Now when I get like this I start to panic and when te kids are going crazy around me I start too panic a little more as I’m trying to get then to calm down a bit.

With being pregnant no its not helping much as every thing gets pushed up..I have anopontmeant to see the doctor so all should go well.