Knowing which asthma is coming on

For a long time, I only got SOB, wheezing, and a dry cough. When I talked with a doctor and was having the symptoms while seeing him, he said I was experiencing asthma symptoms. But, since it was mild at that time, he didn't rush me to the hospital by calling for an ambulance. He told me to use my inhaler. This was not my primary doctor who diagnosed me at that time. I meant to see my primary doctor, but he was full.

My primary doctor was leaning towards asthma (exercise-induced asthma), but since I never had symptoms during tests for it, he couldn't officially diagnose me. So I went in and saw this other doctor for the same symptoms, but I thought it was acute bronchitis because of my history with acute bronchitis. But, this Dr. said, "No. That is asthma. And when I coughed a dry plain cough, he said, "Right there! That's an asthma cough." So I officially got diagnosed by a different doctor that I do have exercise-induced asthma.

Other asthma subtypes

Then years later, just recently, starting last year, I noticed I also only cough when I am doing absolutely nothing. I am only on my laptop doing things, and then suddenly, I start coughing and wheezing for no reason; triggers. So what I did was research what other kinds of asthmas are out there. And when I read them all, only one stood out: adult-onset asthma. And when I saw my doctor that had diagnosed me while I had a primary Dr. for another issue, (my primary Dr. retired, so I hired this same doctor that officially witnessed me having an asthma attack in his office), I mentioned to him about "just sitting, doing nothing active, and I just start getting itchy chin, then wheezing, and cough.

I looked up online other kinds of asthma, and the only asthma that fits is adult-onset asthma. And once I was finishing saying asthma, he instantly said, "It is adult-onset asthma. People can have more than 2 asthma's per person". So my new primary doctor officially diagnosed me also with adult-onset asthma as well. I also get SOB from heart problems too. This is relevant with asthma because, with 3 causes of shortness of breath, I can tell all three triggers apart from one another very easily. When it's not from asthma, I feel my heart throbbing, palpitation, beating hard, fast. With exercise-induced asthma, I get SOB, wheezing, burning in my chest, coughing. With adult-onset asthma, I first start having an itchy chin on the front, but to the right, then I start having dry itchy coughs, and wheezing loud, as I just had a while ago before looking up info again about chin itching before and while having asthma.

Sharing what I've learned

I was originally trying to find what specific asthma has the symptoms of asthma. My personal experience in which asthma causes my chin to itch is only during adult-onset asthma. Never with exercise-induced asthma for some reason. While trying to find that specific answer, I found this website and wanted to share my personal experience of itchy chin seconds before asthma comes on; 2-3 seconds, and to let everyone know they can have more than one asthma. As well as giving my recommendation to observe more in which asthma symptom comes with which asthma that you have if you are not sure if you have only one or more types of asthma. Since I paid close attention to the symptoms, and when they all occurred at those very moments, I now know instantly which subgroup of asthma is flaring up, just like this morning.

I am never worried about which cause is this cause today when all three problems flare up at different times, because each one has a different symptom in each Asthmas, and heart problem (heart problem is relating to exercise-induced asthma because of SOB. Otherwise, I would not be including my multiple heart problems with asthma topic). I never use my inhaler during either asthma's because my airway never closes up to the point of suffocating. And I won't use it unless I really need to because I don't want my lungs and airway to be completely dependent on the inhaler to the point of needing it every few seconds. I am forcing my lungs and airway to stay strong by letting asthma work itself out. I do absolutely nothing for asthma, except maybe drink something to ease the dry tickle a bit. Other than that, I do absolutely nothing. Yes, I have needed an inhaler in the past, but, since not really active anymore, no reason to go out and have fun since my dog passed away 3 or so years ago, exercise-induced asthma isn't triggered as much.

I have a question though: During adult-onset asthma, can just laughing so hard and a lot cause asthma in itself? I was laughing a lot and so hard at times, that I started having my personal symptoms of adult-onset asthma a while ago.