Romantic Robot » asthma http://romanticrobot.net directionless. Wed, 23 May 2012 09:32:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 On the desk I have 3 different inhalers,… http://romanticrobot.net/2009/06/30/on-the-desk-i-have-3-different-inhalers/ http://romanticrobot.net/2009/06/30/on-the-desk-i-have-3-different-inhalers/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:13:19 +0000 Mark http://romanticrobot.net/2009/06/30/on-the-desk-i-have-3-different-inhalers/ Continue reading →]]> On the desk I have 3 different inhalers, a peak flow meter (I’m between normal and 150 down) and I’m on day 5 of steroids. Yet for no reason and with no warning I seem to lose half my lungs. I literally cannot breathe in beyond a certain point. Up to that point is fine. No wheezing, no warning, just shut down.
No asthma nurse, dr appt again on friday.

Ever been mid-yawn and been unable to finish it? You have that odd feeling/sensation and there is that need to get the yawn, to complete it? That’s what I am like constantly. The ability to take a full lungful of air has just about gone but this extra stopping is worrying. Haven’t been this concerned about my asthma for years, many years.

It’s not the heat – it’s been coming on for a few weeks. And I’m not cyanotic at all.

It’s very very strange and very unwelcome. And breathing is a very tiring business indeed.

]]> http://romanticrobot.net/2009/06/30/on-the-desk-i-have-3-different-inhalers/feed/ 2 Wherever you are sitting, really slump f… http://romanticrobot.net/2009/06/22/wherever-you-are-sitting-really-slump-f/ http://romanticrobot.net/2009/06/22/wherever-you-are-sitting-really-slump-f/#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:22:57 +0000 Mark http://romanticrobot.net/2009/06/22/wherever-you-are-sitting-really-slump-f/ Continue reading →]]> Wherever you are sitting, really slump forwards. Get a really horrible scrunched up posture – and then breathe in. That’s how I am. Not slumped, but that’s as much as I can breathe in most of the time. Over the last few weeks I’ve had this effect come and go. I was being good with my inhalers anyway but they weren’t helping. Not a full asthma attack but it feels like the start of one.
Then toward and over the weekend it got worse. Saturday got really close to me wanting / needing to go to casualty and felt very odd when at one point I broke out in a sweat all over. But then it calmed down a bit. So one breath in several dozen is okay, the rest not. Pulse is okay. It’s very odd and may well not be asthma but whatever it is the worry level isn’t going down. And you probably have no idea how tiring breathing actually is.

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