Just shortness of breath

Hi , and welcome! I see you are a new member here, having joined yesterday, in the early evening. We are glad to see you already engaging with the community through this, your first post.
Thanks for sharing your medical history here with the community. While I am hopeful others in the community will see your inquiry and respond by sharing their own personal anecdotal experiences, I have something to contribute as well.
From my own professional experience taking care of patients over the many years, there are a good number of patients who are able to gain control over this disease by utilizing a successful medication regimen, prescribed by their physician. This sounds to be what you have done over the years.
For some folks, asthma can change over the years. We actually have an article which speaks to this topic, which I thought might be of interest: https://asthma.net/answers/change-over-time.
Perhaps this explains your recent situation (shortness of breath (SOB), without wheezing).
As for the weight gain, I do remember reading several comments here within the asthma.net community, where other members have expressed their concern over gaining weight and the use of steroids (systemic and metered dose inhalers (MDI's).
Besides the anticipated responses from the community, I thought you also might want to discuss this with your own private medical doctor (PMD). Perhaps the physician will be able to guide you.
What do you think?
Leon (site moderator asthma.net)

Thank you Leon,I will read it.