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Old 04-01-2003, 02:15 PM   #1
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hello there- this is my first time posting on this board. i am 17 and have had asthma since i was about 2 or 3 because my mother smoked while she was pregnant with me. but anyway i used to live in a small farm town in northern indiana and my asthma was pretty controlled. but shortly after i moved to houston with my daddy my asthma seems to have gotten much worse, i went from being on abluterol, to adding singulair and flovent to that list. i m no longer able to play the sports i once loved to play (in fact i had to throw a way a awesome scholarship for soccer and basketball) but i always seem to have a "cough" where i cough every now and them, like i am about to have a asthma attack (my attacks consist of me coughing and coughing and coughing because i can't breathe and wheezing etc, the works) but it is getting me worried because if i laugh to hard i have an asthma attack, if i get to excited i have an asthma attack, heck if i get to upset i have a asthama attack. one time my friend accidently sprayed mace in her house (she sat on her keychain bottle) and i had to go the hospital. also sometimes i get "cramps" in my lungs (every once in a great wwhile). i was wondering if anybody ahad any advice for me as to how to help this, i really don't want to be on anymore medications. can asthma actually get worse?and if so how do i stop it? i m really concerned. any advice would be appreciated.
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ps- by the way, i have not lived with my mother who smokes or been around virtually any smoke in 3 years
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Houston has a lot more pollution than a farm in northern indiana. I'll bet that's what's doing it to you.

Unfortunately you can't really control your asthma further without taking more or different medications if you're not currently being controlled -- which is how things sound. You're not in control.

Look into what's working for you and what's not working. Look into possibly switching from Flovent to Advair (adding a long-acting bronchodilator -- they work wonders) or switching to combivent instead of albuterol for a rescue inhaler.

 
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also, how long should a albuterol inhaler take to work? after i take my inhaler it takes from 10-20 minutes for me to be back in business
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I use Maxair and my doctor told me it should start to work in 2-3 minutes - but I have rarely ever had it work that quickly. Do you use a spacer? - I got better results with that.

 
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Albuterol takes a full 15 minutes to work fully.

You may notice effects within a minute or two.

 
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