Current Events > Anyone have COVID and have their asthma worsen?

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I'm actually a pulmonologist, so I literally see this complaint every day in my clinic that a patient had mild asthma before, then got COVID, now they're either short of breath or cough all the time and have to use their inhalers alot more...even years after COVID.

Actually the same. I had childhood asthma, only ever needed a rescue inhaler, grew out of it....but since I got COVID I've had to use an inhaler again. I hadn't used one or had any issues in 20 years before covid.

Pretty sure it happened to me. It was easy to forget I even had asthma but since covid I can't forget.

I had covid in March. I think I'm more or less back to normal now, but it took about a month to get to that point. really hope I don't get it again.

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I have a history of asthma. Haven't needed an inhaler in years though. But I've been having slight trouble breathing lately, but as far as I know I never got the rona.

I guess it's possible I did and just didn't know about it, but I've also gain a lot of weight lately, so it could just be me being a fat fuck. I don't really know.

That said, even now I don't use/need an inhaler.

I had childhood asthma, but it seems like it worsened some years ago. When I got COVID, the asthma didn't get worse or better, but my COVID symptoms were extremely mild.

MarbyIsBack posted...

I guess it's possible I did and just didn't know about it, but I've also gain a lot of weight lately, so it could just be me being a fat fuck. I don't really know.

Being fat can reduce ur pulmonary reserve and make u short of breath quicker. But being fat can also directly make asthma worse from a biochemical standpoint too, not just physiologic. Has to do with increased inflammation.

I got downgraded from having asthma to bad lungs years before covid and it kinda got worse, but not to me needing an inhaler yet. Do cough a bit more than usual.

Dan_Haren- posted...

Being fat can reduce ur pulmonary reserve and make u short of breath quicker. But being fat can also directly make asthma worse from a biochemical standpoint too, not just physiologic. Has to do with increased inflammation.

Yeah, I'm like... 90% sure that my issues breathing are just due to being a fat fuck combined with having weaker lungs from suffering from asthma as a kid. Though I AM open to the possibility that I may have gotten the rona and just didn't get it real bad because I got vaxxed. I haven't weighed myself in a while but I'm almost certain I'm at least 320 lb. now. Definitely, absolutely at least 300.

The one time I've ever come close to needing an inhaler was actually pretty recently, when I was visiting my dad. We were out on a walk and got caught in a sudden rainstorm. Like, it came out of nowhere. One minute it was nice and dry, and the next torrential downpour, and we could actually see the line of wet ground vs dry ground advancing towards us, as we walked right into it. So naturally we ran as fast as we could back to the house. Still got fucking SOAKED though.

Let me tell you, I haven't run that hard since I was in elementary school. And I certainly paid the price for it; I was catching my breath for at least 2 hours afterwards. I actually thought I was gonna pass out, no joke. THAT would've been a good time for an inhaler. But I don't have one anymore because I haven't needed one in years. And even if I did, I probably wouldn't have taken it up there unless I used it regularly, because I would've have foreseen getting into THAT mess.

On a side note, my shoes didn't dry for 3 days, and even when they did dry, it was only because I finally decided I had enough and just threw them in the dryer lmao.

Idk. That's a lot of words for something that ultimately isn't important or even fully relevant to the thread, but it's just a story I felt like sharing and kinda spiraled out of control. My bad. I just like telling stories I guess lol

MarbyIsBack posted...

Yeah, I'm like... 90% sure that my issues breathing are just due to being a fat fuck combined with having weaker lungs from suffering from asthma as a kid. Though I AM open to the possibility that I may have gotten the rona and just didn't get it real bad because I got vaxxed. I haven't weighed myself in a while but I'm almost certain I'm at least 320 lb. now. Definitely, absolutely at least 300.

The one time I've ever come close to needing an inhaler was actually pretty recently, when I was visiting my dad. We were out on a walk and got caught in a sudden rainstorm. Like, it came out of nowhere. One minute it was nice and dry, and the next torrential downpour, and we could actually see the line of wet ground vs dry ground advancing towards us, as we walked right into it. So naturally we ran as fast as we could back to the house. Still got fucking SOAKED though.

Let me tell you, I haven't run that hard since I was in elementary school. And I certainly paid the price for it; I was catching my breath for at least 2 hours afterwards. I actually thought I was gonna pass out, no joke. THAT would've been a good time for an inhaler. But I don't have one anymore because I haven't needed one in years. And even if I did, I probably wouldn't have taken it up there unless I used it regularly, because I would've have foreseen getting into THAT mess.

On a side note, my shoes didn't dry for 3 days, and even when they did dry, it was only because I finally decided I had enough and just threw them in the dryer lmao.

Idk. That's a lot of words for something that ultimately isn't important or even fully relevant to the thread, but it's just a story I felt like sharing and kinda spiraled out of control. My bad. I just like telling stories I guess lol

The fact that it took u 2 hours to catch your breath tells me asthma might be playing a role. If your deconditioned and fat, you still can catch your breathuch sooner than that. Asthma makes your lungs tighter and makes that feeling last a while. Whether it's worse or better than childhood I can't say and it doesn't really matter now. May it's worth getting a breathing test done. But losing weight should be a top priority. Best thing to do would just be to have an inhaler for those situations.

got covid twice. first case was worse than the second, and i did wheeze a little bit one time during that after not wheezing for like 10 years.