I was dx with asthma , put on advair, 4 days later no cough. Then within a month I got a nasty virus, got put on a temporary extra inhaler and cough syrup with codeine. Was feeling better for a day or two then really started to drag. Still running low grade fever. I guess I feel sort of like a hypochondriac so I was trying to poo poo what I was feeling. Well its back on a plane sunday and not feeling good. When into after hours care and the dr said he could tell by listening to me that I was having trouble breathing. I thought i was feeling pain in my lungs but because of my history of a car accident and lots of muscular spasms I thought the coughin was causing spasms. WRONG
He gave me albuterol, two puffs later , the tightness already feels better and pain is gone!!!!! I've been feeling like this for days!!!! If you guys hadn't said things about a resucue inhaler when sick etc I might not have gone in so thank you for your replies, you really helped me. He also put me on an antibiotic cause I'm almost 2 weeks out and he said the post nasal drip seemed heavy and it wasn't. I thought it was but because my temp was down I didn't think I was sick. But after almost blacking out doing my inhaler this am I started to wonder if I was reading the signs right. I wasn't , I'm so glad I went in. I'm just so confused how this developed as an adult and then this one cold got so bad. Geez I feel like a wreck! But a wreck on the road to recovery!

Well antibiotics and 2 uses of albuterol and a world of difference!!! :bouncing:

Glad you are better. Adults usually develop asthma after some respiratory illness. There is a particular pneuumonia strain that causes it which is what happened to me.

Glad you are better. Adults usually develop asthma after some respiratory illness. There is a particular pneuumonia strain that causes it which is what happened to me.
Hi, what pneuumonia strain causes asthma? I just had pneumonia a while back and now it's months later I was cleaning with bleach and later that day, couldn't breathe. I went to the ER and they said I have reactive asthma that was triggered by the bleach. I have never had asthma and I've been around bleach a million times! I'm in my early 30's so, this is all new to me too. I've been to ER and urgent care every day for 3 days in a row trying to get help with this. They at last gave me a steriod injection + a steriod inhaler to take home and use 2x a day, it's called Qvar. They also, gave me albuterol which makes my nerves on end but it does help after about 30 minutes. It don't seem to open me u right away like they said it would. This scares the crap out of me! I have stopped smoking, can't even be around a person smoking w/o getting asthma symptoms, can't be around my dog, etc.. I've been around all these things all my life with no problems. The only major lung infection I've had was the pneumonia which they said was bacterial. I took generic bactrim "smz-tmp tabs" which got rid of it. It stuck around for about 2 months though before I could kick it. This is just so sudden and unexpected. Anyone else have this come on as an adult suddenly for the first time ever?

Yea I've always had my lungs as my weak spot and after bronchitis last year I think I just crossed the line, started keeping track of a never ending cough, diagnosed with asthma, on advair and albuterol, kind of freaked out by that tightness in my chest. I've had bronchitis at least several times in my life and both bacterial and viral pneumonia.

I developed my asthma after a couple bad sinus infections and a serious inversion that settled in over the city in December 2001. Last year my asthma flared up really bad when I got Pertussis following another sinus infection. The cough lasted for 4 1/2 months before letting up.

sorry I don't totally understand what the inversion is?