My Struggle with Premature Birth and Asthma

I was born early, but not quite early enough to be classified premature. Like you, I wasn’t breathing at birth so that’s… fun. 😅 I’m not sure what they had to do to get me breathing. As a toddler I had pneumonia which can’t have helped things. Sounds like we’ve had very different asthma journeys but I absolutely relate to the pain and fear that it causes. I currently use a corticosteroid inhaler twice a day and albuterol as needed. I wish I didn’t have to rely on steroids but I’ll take it over not breathing. I’m not sure exactly when I started showing asthma symptoms. I was first diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma when I was 8. Over the years, it got progressively worse and my list of triggers just kept growing. I can’t run and I struggle with stairs. Smoke is the absolute worst. My lungs react to cold weather, dry heat, humidity… pretty much any kind of dramatic weather. Sometimes I get so upset thinking about how it affects my life and all the things I can’t do normally. It’s frustrating to struggle with something as simple as breathing but you are definitely not alone!!

U r not alone. Asthma sucks. I have a nebulizer too. Use with albutoral

I wasn’t born early but I was diagnosed with asthma when I was very young. I was also in the hospital alot, had a nebulizer, and frequently woke up struggling to breathe. I still get scared because although I don’t struggle in my day to day life with asthma anymore, but I have Bradycardia so my heart doesn’t beat a lot when I sleep. I’ll wake up feeling like I wasn’t breathing at all, not struggling to breathe but definitely out of breath. 😩 It’s scary !