Hi,

More questions!! :D

I was wondering, because I don't usually wake up at night with asthma, but I always wake up feeling awful. Infact, I never want to wake up, not even after 10 or 11 hours of sleep! When I get up all my muscles ache, my head hurts, etc. I also need to take a rescue inhaler.

Could this have anything to do with asthma? Or am I just a strange sleeper?


thanks

Hi,

More questions!! :D

I was wondering, because I don't usually wake up at night with asthma, but I always wake up feeling awful. Infact, I never want to wake up, not even after 10 or 11 hours of sleep! When I get up all my muscles ache, my head hurts, etc. I also need to take a rescue inhaler.

Could this have anything to do with asthma? Or am I just a strange sleeper?


thanks


It sounds like it could be almost anything, including the bed you're sleeping on. But it could be asthma. If I were you I'd talk to your doctor and maybe see a sleep specialist.

Ok, but I don't think it's the bed or anything because it's only been happening lately and it's coincided with my asthma flare-up.

I wake up at night because of my asthma. Of course, the prednisone doesn't help either, and neither do the reliever medications. It's bad because my boss at work can tell how I am breathing that day by looking at the circles under my eyes and noting a difference. She can also tell if I'm having an instance of trouble because I go putty gray. It's actually kind of annoying. I would question whether your asthma is bothering you enough to make you wake up, but not fully wake up. Does that make sense? I would also ask your doctor about the possibility of obstructive sleep apnea. (http://www.sleepapnea.org/asthma-osa.html) To find out what is really going on, you may need to undergo a sleep study. Good luck, and keep us posted!

I don't sleep well either when I'm having a flare up, I'll "sleep" but feel terrible the next day..like I didn't sleep well. Esp. when I take Xopenex or Albuterol 2 much..I cough a lot during flare ups, and believe it or not it runs my body dead coughing so much. Makes my stomach muscles sore, my throat sore, gives me a headache..and i'm tired all the time!
I have a real problem with night asthma..even when i'm doing good, I've had episodes of waking up barely breathing/not breathing. I sleep with my inhaler next 2 my pillow in case of that and my nebulizer is set up in my room right by my bed so I can minimize getting up & possibly getting worse. I have several pillows on my bed so if I'm having a hard time laying down with the coughing or breathing(I have really bad pnd), I can stack them up and sleep sitting up. The worst part is the fact that I have school..and I miss a lot of the first few periods due to not sleeping at nite and then finally falling asleep only an hour before school starts or something like that. I missed my maximum number of days for Withdrawal/Fail for my first period class last semester..I just barely squeeked by.
I don't know what can be done 4 night asthma besides the regular daily preventer meds like Advair & Singulair. When i'm doing badly we also put up a steam vaporizer without the medicine in it, which helps a lot.
I hear good things about allergy proof bedding? Maybe that could help..dust usually bothers an asthmatic, wether they are allergic or not.

I wake up with asthma when I am sick with a cold/flu other than that nope.

But I'll wake up the next day tired and chest feeling "stuffy" and runny nose + need to take ventolin. We know part of the problem is dust mites - so I now have dust mite proof covers, no more feather doona. Well of course I still insist on having the cat on my bed.......

ohh :( does that mean i have to lose my feather duvet, feather throw and feather pillow?? :eek:

You have feather everything too? I had a feather pillow and doona - never would have even thought of replacing it with low allergen doona + pillows as well as dust mite proof covers - it was a Dr who recommended this.

It might be an idea - but I don't want to say yes don't use feather products in case this option doesn't relieve your asthma probs/sleeping. Speak to your Dr and see what s/he recommends.

Good luck, dolphins. :wave:

Maybe you could ask your doctor about a long-acting bronchodilator, such as Foradil, to take before you go to bed.

I take advair before i go to bed, which has 50mcgs of serevent and that's also a long acting bronchodilator.

I'm going to ask him to up my advair or to switch me to an alternative, I want to try a different rescue inhaler, and I want an allergy test, and a pulmonary function test done if possible.

I think that hc85 is right... that my asthma disturbs me from getting deep sleep. It's very possible because I'm an extremely heavy sleeper (the fire alarm doesn't even wake me up), so I'd probably just end up half sleeping. That would explain why I dream a lot too.

I feel your pain. Aside from poor sleep quality, I actually DO end up waking up at night. The whole not being able to breathe thing does it quickly. A neb resolves it, but it's just a pain. And poor broken sleep doesn't do me any good....