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Living With Asthma

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Living With Asthma

Slowly your chest feels heavier, but the weight is constantly adding and adding more as time progresses. Your throat slowly closes by this time you're wheezing, gasping for air. Rather than breathing easily you are fighting for every breath during an attack. Your entire back aches and hurts for heaving so hard for just one small breath of air. You can't breathe and there is little you can do without a rescue inhaler or treatment. Asthma is incurable and the scariest experience. But many of us have to deal with it on a daily basis.

The thing with Asthma is that you never really know when an attack happens. You can be walking home from school, eating dinner, petting your dog or even just sleeping. Any moment it can happen, but the real question is are you prepared for it?

You can be put on a preventative like Pulmicort, which is what I have, but even with that it still cannot guarantee that you wont have any. You need to always at least know where your rescue inhaler is. Those 2 puffs can save you life, literally. You can outgrow asthma, but I'm not one of the lucky ones that did. 19 years I have had this problem with my lungs, for a span of 3 years I went without any symptoms but Asthma missed me so much that it came back and stays with in the branches of my bronchi. So when I run, or go from different elevations, or even the season change can play with it.

Asthma occurs when the bronchi branches in your lungs constrict and spasm, the mucus that is with in your lungs thicken making it difficult for oxygen to make it successfully through your airways. Honestly it is scary, you don't know what to expect. The word "Incurable" scared me most. I lived with it but to hear that there is not much you can do with it kinda hits home. You need to breath, without air you cant exist so the thought of this being a life long disease is different.

Many of us struggle with this annoying disease and the constant battle between breathing easily and not. Let's hope we all know where our rescue inhalers are and also where you would go for help


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