8 Relatable Asthma Memes That Will Make You Smile

I spent most of the summer of 2015 working as a tournament assistant with a local sports organization. On the last night of the season's biggest tournament (the same night the executive director kept telling me to go eat pasta because there was so much!), a player asked me to text him the picture I’d taken of him and his partner with their trophy.

Except, nah, he didn’t just say “thanks” and let us go on with our lives. We spent the rest of the evening not really talking, but sending memes back and forth. And making memes. And general nonsense.

I greatly enjoy memes—when they are good, or when they make sense to me, at least.

My favorite funny asthma memes

Asthma memes? So. Many. Of. Them. Are. Total. Garbage. Finding genuinely funny asthma memes takes some serious digging.

So, here we go: My top 8, family-friendly, mildly amusing asthma memes. (The not family-friendly ones are also coincidentally not at all funny.)

Asthma: You suck at breathing

Or, per The Fault in Our Stars, Lungs that suck at being lungs.” I mean, sometimes they are okay. But they are still more high maintenance than they should be. Come on, medicine every day?

Very asthma, much inhaler

Such doge. And you can never go wrong with such doge, even if it's much inhaler, because obviously, if you're on the internet at all, you will immediately think of such doge in Twinkie form, which is much delishus. Unlike inhalers, which are not much delishus. (Especially those anticholinergics, honestly. I’m lookin’ at you, Atrovent and Tudorza)

ASTHMA Y U NO LET ME BREATHE EASILY

…I am a huge fan of Mr. Y U NO. HUGE. He’s gotten me through many bad times, mostly related to human anatomy.

Which, I suppose, asthma problems are related to human anatomy. Or at least my own human (patho)physiology.

Hold back cough, have a coughing fit

This cat is wise in the world of asthma. Clearly uses an AeroKat chamber. (I swear it’s a thing. Also the AeroDawg and the AeroHippus, which is for horses, not hippos. By the way.)

Asthma problems: Being self-conscious

Not at all funny or even smirk-inducing; however, it’s too true to not include on this list.

Asthma: Like a Magikarp with no water

My babies of the ’90s (and babies of the later ’80s) asthmatics? You got me, right?

This Magikarp looks so distressed, actually. It either needs an inhaler or is starting to evolve into a Gyarados.

DARTH VADER Y U NO USE ASTHMA INHALER

You’re right, Mr. Y U NO, as you normally are. Maybe he’s actually secretly Dr. Y U NO.

Picking up my asthma medication FROM THE DARKSIDE

Oh hey, nice work there, Darth. Glad you took Mr. Y U NO’s suggestion seriously. Work that Ventolin! (I wrote “bro” after that, but I wasn't sure I wanted Darth Vader to be my bro?)

Sometimes I feel like my pharmacy is the dark side. I mean, usually all is well. But even when all is well with the pharmacy team, the pharmacy still feels like the dark side because they have cookies.

How to find humor in chronic illness

I hope you are at least mildly amused by these, like I am. Sometimes, you have to find the humor in life with asthma or other chronic conditions. Have a favorite asthma meme that I missed? Link it in the comments—the more funny asthma memes, the merrier!