Nineeightyone
Autocross Champion
Damn man, glad you're here. Mine wasn't awful when I was a kid, got a bit worse when I was in my early teens, and then pretty much when I started smoking weed, it got better/I was able to do more athletic stuff. Then for a long time it wasn't bad at all, then within the last few years it decided to be a jerk and I had my first asthma attack in years, where I had to go to the hospital. I'm also doing the albuterol thing, I was on a maintenance-type inhaler, I'd have to check and see what it was but I stopped that after a couple years. It helped some, but it wasn't like a magical cure that completely fixed everything.Is your asthma bad? What do you take for it? Mine was 10x worse when I was younger but it's still there. I just use an Albuterol rescue and still have to take it a few times a day, I don't really have 'attacks' anymore but it's annoying. When I was younger I died and was in the hospital for 6 weeks. I've been meaning to explore what the latest and greatest treatments are but have PTSD or something and hate doctors. I'd love if there was something that made it so I didn't have to take the inhaler multiple times a day
These days I carry an inhaler, there was a time where I needed it almost daily BUT now it's fairly rare, as long as I'm managing my allergies otherwise. I'm with you though, I hate going to doctors/hospitals just because it's so expensive, and it feels like time that I could be doing something more productive. Not that I don't believe in the work they do/the progress we've made as a whole in understanding diseases and whatnot, I just don't like having to sit and wait.