I had asthma when I was younger, I never had to do inhalers, but that was at the end of the age when asthma was not treated with inhalers, my mom kept me active, running, walking, for 20-30 mins daily. I noticed wheezing, but never paid any attn to it. I just thought it was because I was running too hard, or something. but I was never short of breathe, or never had any attacks. all through my childhood, until I was 26 and they asked me if I remembered if I had asthma as a child, I told them no. My mom never told me I had asthma, so I didn't realize I had a problem with it. until my dr said I had it as a child I never knew. Now that I have knowledge of it, I take inhalers to help with it. It was frustrating for me to find out about it later than sooner, i feel my mom should of told me. but she was raised to believe illness was not something you notices, you just lived with it. Just sharing

Oh my God; I am so sorry. Your mother lying to you made youy unhappy I am sure, are you happy now to have control over your asthma. Our stories are quite similar. Accepting yourself as asthmatic can be hard. Thank you for sharing.

Hi. I've had kind of a rollercoaster ride with asthma since I was about 7 or so. I'm now 21, and it never has really gone away, it just lays dormant for a time, and then pops back up about once a year or so. I take medication year round, and increase doses around the time I'm more prone to breathing trouble. I have allergy-induced asthma, so exercise has never really bothered it. When I get sick, the cold/illness goes to my lungs and causes trouble. It never really used to be horrible, I would have an attack every now and then, and I was in the hospital a few times growing up, but mostly due to getting sick, and asthma mutating the symptoms.

When I was a senior in high school, I went to Italy with my class as a graduation trip. While there, my roommate gave me some kind of bronchitis she had been carrying around, and combined with all the second hand smoke in Italy, I developed a nasty cough. I then returned from the trip, and went on a mission trip to Nicaragua where I dug wells, and swallowed a lot of dust. As a result, that cough lasted about 5 months, and led to bruised ribs, along with morphing my asthma in some way. That summer, I had to sleep sitting up, do about 4-5 nebulizer treatments a day, and at one point I couldn't laugh without triggering an asthma attack.

I went to the pulmonologist (who I now see about 2-3x a year) and found out that my asthma had taken more a turn towards the chronic cough symptoms. So now, coughs are what I desperately try to avoid when I get ill, or they lead to a nasty lapse back into asthma attacks and wheezing. It's not a matter of my asthma disappearing, it's more a matter of trying to keep a healthy lifestyle and take all precautions not to let myself get in a position where it will return.

So, I don't think your asthma will ever truly go away, I think there are triggers, and when faced with those triggers, it will always rear its ugly head. It's a part of your life, and it is hard to live with, and it doesn't seem fair that something that comes so easily to everyone else turns into a nightmare for asthmatics, but it is something you have to live with.

I don't think it should stop you from living your everyday life, and hopefully you have found some solution that keeps it under control as often as it can. I use advair daily to prevent allergies that will set it off. If I find myself wheezing and my cough worsening, I am prescribed Prednisone, which is a steroid that kills the cough quickly. I hope that the return of your asthma doesn't disrupt your life, and that you find a good way to deal with it, but don't run from it! Treatment is important. I really do recommend creating a relationship with a pulmonologist in your area, it has really helped my asthma in ways i can't express.

I have had asthma since birth, although it went undiagnosed until I was 4 and had to be hospitalized for several days. I had bouts in the hospital from then until I was about 13 or 14 and then everything seemed okay, no symptoms. I wasn't even on meds which I had been on since I was 4. Then sometime in high school around the end of my sophmore year I guess, I started having symptoms again and by the time I was a senior I was so bad off that I was actually intubated. Every since then, about 15 years, I have had to really maintain in order to stay out of the hospital. It is a hard thing to do but you can enjoy a fulfilling life with asthma. I have for a lot of years and have been hospital free for asthma symptoms for many years now. I still have exacerbations but I can usually stop it before it gets to bad and am well controlled on Advair. I also take a daily allergy pill. You can get through this, it is managable. Just keep on top of your symptoms and take your meds.

Hello.

In my personal opinion you can try some herbal remedies.

i was born with asthma and i will alway have it. sometime my asthma do not borther me. other time it can have proublem with my asthma. i like it when i have it under control. when my asthma do not borther me i still take my advir inhale. you just got to watch what you and try not to be around things that can make you have a asthma attack.