Please help!,not sure if asthma

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Hi everyone,
Am new to this particular board and would really appreciate a little advice.
I'm not sure if i have asthma.I do have anxiety issues and have been told thats what this is but i'm not so sure.

I remeraber having this feeling when i was a child and it would come and go, then about five years ago it came back and has stayed since.

Basically i feel as if i cannot take proper breaths in,it isnt there all the time but most of the time,my chest also feels stiff and constricted and i get really tired.Its as if my breaths in are not satisfying and the constriction stays until i manage to take a breath with that satified feeling.
Also a few months ago i got this really bad pain under my left shoulder which penetrated right through to my chest,have had it three times since,when i tried to inhale fully the pain was immence.I dont think i can describe the feeling in my chest fully,its weird.Sometimes it effects me when i eat and i will almost choke as i feel i cant breath when i eat.
Went to Doctor who got me to breathe into a spirometry i think.For my weight and height i managed about 400 at best which was low,he also said the pain was muscle spasm but i'm not so sure.
My father suffers with asthma and copd.

Am just wondering if anyone with asthma relates to this.

Any advice much appreciated.

Many thanks and best wishes
 
I suffer from asthma and axiety. Whenever I get anxious I'll get short of breath.It will get harder to breath as well. A symptom or a sign of asthma is weasing. Does this ever happen to you. If it does it could mean you have asthma. Only a doctor can tell you though. I take flovent and bricanyl for asthma, it seems to be working. There doesn't seem to me as much inflammation anymore.
 
HI ,What i know it's a friend of mine, he was too often alone at home, not so involved in the society.
And this breathing problems started.

Then his familly moved to a place with more neigrabroadour.
He had several frienRAB there, and that was over.
He never had this problem after.
 
In asthma, the bronchiole tubes are narrowed, often as a result of irritation, inflammation, allergies, etc
Usually it is not caused by emotions, although, for me, not being able to breathe can be really upsetting
in an asthma attack, I can breathe in okay, but can't get the air OUT, because the tubes are narrowed or constricted

Medication that relaxes and OPENS the broncial tubes like albuterol inhaler helps right away and long term medication, like advair, reduces inflammation as well.

I thought it was a myth that emotions can contract the bronchial tubes...

But your doctor would be the best judge of what you have and what you need to take for it
 
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