Menopause Matters Forum
Menopause Discussion => All things menopause => Topic started by: Milk Thistle on September 30, 2024, 08:08:29 AM
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Hi. Iv had asthma since childhood and its never really been a problem. I go to annual asthma reviews with the doctors. About age 40 they gave me a daily steroid inhaler to take through a chamber as it was a new thing they had. I take this daily and never noticed any different until the start of perimenopause. I then felt like I needed the steroid inhaler every morning and would be fine after it. I smoked on and off until age 38 too. I am 50 now. Totally gave up then and never looked back. Now I am noticing im coughing and wheezing more so I googled it. It says menopause can worsen asthma >:(.
Just wondering if anyone else is getting this as my health anxieties ( only brought about by peri) are now raging out of control with all sort of weird ideas that im about to die any minute.
Has anyone else wondered why on earth our bodies stop making something that we so desperately need for so many functions
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Morning. My Dad began late onset asthma in his late 60s.
Myself: in the days B4 a period began I would feel a shortness of breath as though I was unable to deep breath. These symptoms went and I always assumed that it was extra fluid being carried. No logic there then ::)
So this may be hormonally linked.
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Thank you for that. My dad has always had asthma from a child so I guess I inherited it. Interesting theory. I will try and moniter the dates
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Keeping a mood/food/symptom diary is often useful during perimenopause. To chart those better days that can be forgotten!