Asthma

[Feet in the Cowclaps]

Swiss Toni? Jamie?

Any news? Any better?

[NotOnUrHelly]

Im back sorted now, last time use £4.99 paint that stuff really wrecked my breathing for about a fortnight.

Im racing tonight at Littleborough and then on Saturday at Moel Famau.

Knee still jipping me a bit but I think it always will, breathing good though touch wood.

Jamie

[emmilou]

It's that time of year again....any other puffers starting to suffer? ?

I've been ok all summer and even avoided hayfever however really struggled on last nights run and am going back to having to take the purple inhaler twice daily to avoid the annual round of steroids

[owmeknee]

It's that time of year again....any other puffers starting to suffer? ?

I've been ok all summer and even avoided hayfever however really struggled on last nights run and am going back to having to take the purple inhaler twice daily to avoid the annual round of steroids

seems your asthma is similar to mine ,dont worry about it in summer ,
Did a cross country at weekend found i was a bit wheezy during and had a cough day after, think itss down to the wife having the central heating on then going into normal air that does it for me.
Like you i will start up two times a day on the puple job and hope for best.
Also think its the short faster races that get me than the longer ones ,must be too much of a shock to the lungs..?

[SteveWool]

It's that time of year again....any other puffers starting to suffer? ?

I've been ok all summer and even avoided hayfever however really struggled on last nights run and am going back to having to take the purple inhaler twice daily to avoid the annual round of steroids

This the second year the same has happened to me. No problems until about three/four weeks ago and am now struggling to go more than a couple of miles (from comfortable 10+ at 8 min pace) on some little hills before I'm gasping for breath. Last year I had the purple inhalor but it didn't really help and I had real problems sleeping. Problem went away around April and I was back to full strength by June. I moved on to symbicort to try to help with the lack of sleep side effects but again this doesn't seem to help. I'm not sure where to go for help as by her own admission the asthma nurse at my gp's "isn't an asthma specialist"

[NotOnUrHelly]

Lost Sheep,

It is that time of year again, it sounds like you had it bad last year going right from now till april.

Hope this bout clears up.

You say you had purple inhalers, i take it you took them morning and night and not as a preventer just before you run.

What cleared it up for me was a tablet called Montelakaust but be very wary of these little buggers. My breathing and peak flows improved no end but after three days. My heart was racing and I had the most vividly horrenduous nightmares and kept waking up thinking someome was in my house. Very wierd s**t but everyone is different.

Hope it gets right

Jamie

[SteveWool]

Lost Sheep,

You say you had purple inhalers, i take it you took them morning and night and not as a preventer just before you run.

What cleared it up for me was a tablet called Montelakaust but be very wary of these little buggers. My breathing and peak flows improved no end but after three days. My heart was racing and I had the most vividly horrenduous nightmares and kept waking up thinking someome was in my house. Very wierd s**t but everyone is different.

Last year I did use the purple inhaler twice a day as a preventer. It helped with breathing generally but not when running. Also, the asthma nurse had recommend I stop running until my peak flows were back to normal (around 650) which took a long time.

I had been surprised by the sudden change last year but it sounds like this is more common than I realised. This time the plan is to run/walk if I need to and to try not to let it bother me if I'm slower over the winter months.

[emmilou]

Lost Sheep,

It is that time of year again, it sounds like you had it bad last year going right from now till april.

Hope this bout clears up.

You say you had purple inhalers, i take it you took them morning and night and not as a preventer just before you run.

What cleared it up for me was a tablet called Montelakaust but be very wary of these little buggers. My breathing and peak flows improved no end but after three days. My heart was racing and I had the most vividly horrenduous nightmares and kept waking up thinking someome was in my house. Very wierd s**t but everyone is different.

Hope it gets right

Jamie

Exactly - they want to put me back on those buggers but they were horrible. Said I'd go on as a last resort and see how I get on in the next couple of weeks.

currently on the purple one two puffs twice a day Mornibng and night) and the blue as and when I need it - like after a race! I now have soddin man flu so none the wiser as to what it's doing as feel like a heffalump is sat on my chest

roll on spring.

the worrying thing is though in all seriousness I need a good winter to get some good base training and long distances in but how the hell am I going to do that feeling like this

[Tea & cake]

Come out with me I am pretty unfit at mo & just getting back to some real training (til the next injury) Hoping to get some good lakeland days in over autumn / winter but having to stick to a jog/walk affair at mo. Calfs not strong enough to run up the hills & bad knee & ankle = odd wobble jog downhill. Seem to be ok on the flats tho
Still got fridays off & pretty flexible mid week with enough warning. Seem to have turned into a bit of a fair weather jogger tho

[smoggy]

Sorry if I'm repeating much of what's already been said. All I can do is offer benefit of my experience. I was diagnosed with asthma at age 30 and was pretty hacked off to say the least. However, I've subsequently learnt that good managemet is key and will not prevent me from fell running, mountain biking etc. I use brown steroid inhaler daily and up the dosage if I feel a cold coming on. I find that correct management of brown inhaler has more or less taken away the need to use the blue Ventolin, however, I will always shove this in my back pocket on training runs and in races. I know that steroid tablets can have longer term side effects, I take Prednisolone if I get a bad chest infection and find that they are remarkably effective. I am also well aware that there is a debate about how many courses of steroid tablets one should take annually. I don't take Ventolin before a race, however you quickly realise that you're not alone as an asthmatic as you tend to see many others puffing away before a race begins. I've also tried to practice slow breathing if ever a feel an asthma episode coming on, slowly in through the nose and out through the mouth often alleviates it for me. This obviously won't work for everyone.
I'm now well into my third year of fell running and as yet have not been slowed down by asthma.

Cheers

Smoggy