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Hi there. I'm now 15 months in using the treatment Benralizumab.This medication works for me as I had in the past at least 6 exacerbations a year and the last...

When I retired, I kept getting sick with bronchitis. I went to my physician several times within 6 months, and many prescriptions later, they told me I needed to see...

I just had a second hospital visit this year and my husband wants me to change providers. Do more people go to pulmonologists or allergy doctors? I am under the...

I have had dogs in my life for years. I have been dog sitting for my daughter's dog for 6 weeks and noticing how much I have been coughing runny...

Throughout my life, I've had several lung infections and as a kid, I had bronchitis a couple of times. In my early 20s, I had walking pneumonia, in my late...

When I was a kid, maybe 12 or so, I remember struggling to breathe as I bent closely over a vaporizer smeared with Vics VapoRub. I carried a box of...

When I was in my early 40s, I didn't think of myself as having asthma. I was rarely symptomatic and then only mildly. However, every winter, I would come down...

I have allergic asthma. I am allergic to 4 types of dust mites, tree pollen, grass, and flower pollen. Symptoms can appear quickly from someone wearing strong body sprays and...

My daughter died in June 2019 from asthma. Her asthma was mild allergy, cold, and exercise-induced asthma. Many of the medications do not treat minorities based on the research. Many...

I was diagnosed as a silent asthmatic at the age of 12 I am now 63 years old and in my lifetime I've only met two other silent asthmatics. The...

I'm a 66 year old diagnosed with emphysema asthma 2 years old. I'm on ultibro, pulmicort turbohaler, corasteroid IV and I've been told these medications won't cause bloating on my...

I’ve been an asthmatic for around 20 years and the last 3 years have been the worse for me. I have been to an allergist to see if my asthma...

After a very severe asthma attack that landed me in ER, I was referred to a pulmonologist for a lung function test. To my surprise, a week later I was...

Hi all. I thought of sharing my asthma experience here. I have been diagnosed with asthma in summer of 2018. I am 43 now, male and live most of the...

I had hidden my chronic illness from my employer for 4 years because I had seen so many teachers not rehired after they had exposed if they had a chronic...

Not too long ago while I was waiting in line at the TSA security checkpoint at the Chicago Midway airport, I almost had an asthma episode. I was placing my...

#ActsAgainstAsthma Mrs. Amaka Chiwuike-Uba died of asthma exacerbation on July 4, 2016 and a non-governmental organization (Amaka Chiwuike-Uba Foundation) was founded in 2016 in her memory, and they have been...

Hi - my daughter who's 26 now has been an asthmatic since she was a baby. For years she's suffered from asthma and when she was young she had the...

I am now 70. I was diagnosed with asthma in April 2015. What a learning curve this has been for me and my husband, family, and friends. Not only that...

In 1985 I had a bad cough and producing sputum and blood. The top specialists in the UK admitted me to the hospital, had physio, nebulizer and inhalers, Xrays. He...