nvot9
04-30-2007, 08:13 PM
Sorry if this seems like an unnecessary topic to some of you, but to those on this board with asthma, you'll understand how I feel, so sorry, but I REALLY need to vent right now...
If you have ever felt frustrated in your life, multiply that by 100 and make it around breathing and you'll have a little taste of my life. I struggle, every second of my life, just to breath, something most of you don't even think about doing. Breathing's gotta be one of the most underrated things in the world.
I mean every time I eat, specifically larger meals, my air passage gets clogged up and I'm only able to breathe through my nose. I find my self constantly gasping for air and looking stupid trying to take a deep breath. It's the most frustrating thing I've ever done, I try to take a deep breath, but I just can't get that extra push of the air upwards and out of my mouth. I'm pretty much restricted to breathing through my nose and not my mouth, because then I start thinking about it and it all goes downhill from there.
In addition, it takes extreme concentration for me to breath, when I need to take a deep breath, I literally need COMPLETE silence and have to remain motionless so I can focus all my attention and effort towards pushing out just a little air, so that I can relax for another few seconds before I have to go through the same thing again. Sometimes I try to play a game and see how long I can go without doing it, even making promises to myself that I'm not gunna take one of those stupid deep/yawning breaths the rest of the day, only to do it 3 minutes later.
Especially for someone like myself, who is a big athlete and loves to run around non stop, I find chronic asthma to be a big roadblock.
I mean I take a mild steroid, called Flovent, twice a day, and find myself taking Albuterol (the regular medicine that you find in inhalers and such) so often that I've almost become immune to any affects it may have, positive and negative.
That all being said, anyone got any suggestions for me, any ways that I can calm down when having an attack and relax? For the most part though, I just needed to vent...
If you have ever felt frustrated in your life, multiply that by 100 and make it around breathing and you'll have a little taste of my life. I struggle, every second of my life, just to breath, something most of you don't even think about doing. Breathing's gotta be one of the most underrated things in the world.
I mean every time I eat, specifically larger meals, my air passage gets clogged up and I'm only able to breathe through my nose. I find my self constantly gasping for air and looking stupid trying to take a deep breath. It's the most frustrating thing I've ever done, I try to take a deep breath, but I just can't get that extra push of the air upwards and out of my mouth. I'm pretty much restricted to breathing through my nose and not my mouth, because then I start thinking about it and it all goes downhill from there.
In addition, it takes extreme concentration for me to breath, when I need to take a deep breath, I literally need COMPLETE silence and have to remain motionless so I can focus all my attention and effort towards pushing out just a little air, so that I can relax for another few seconds before I have to go through the same thing again. Sometimes I try to play a game and see how long I can go without doing it, even making promises to myself that I'm not gunna take one of those stupid deep/yawning breaths the rest of the day, only to do it 3 minutes later.
Especially for someone like myself, who is a big athlete and loves to run around non stop, I find chronic asthma to be a big roadblock.
I mean I take a mild steroid, called Flovent, twice a day, and find myself taking Albuterol (the regular medicine that you find in inhalers and such) so often that I've almost become immune to any affects it may have, positive and negative.
That all being said, anyone got any suggestions for me, any ways that I can calm down when having an attack and relax? For the most part though, I just needed to vent...