Testimonies: Living with asthma as an adult 14 Articles

by Dorothy M Neddermeyer

Asthma - You Can Heal "We are responsible for everything in our lives, including how the chemistry in our bodies works or doesn't work." Wayne Dyer's words hit me like a bolt of lightening as I listened to his taped boo...read more

by Lauren Beyenhof

Most of the classrooms at my junior high had dry erase boards. A few of the older classrooms, however, still had the old green chalkboards. Chalk. I hated the stuff. Moreover, I hated the chalk dust that accumulated in the...read more

by Samantha Pratt-Tyler

As an adult with asthma, I was first diagnosised when I was 42, that was 11 years ago, and it seems like a life time ago for with that diagnosis and learning what my triggers are, changed my life forever. Allergic ast...read more

by Deborah Messner

I was diagnosed with asthma when I was about nine years old, back in the 1980's, long before the disease was a common household phrase. Having spent so much of my childhood sick, in an emergency room, or in a hospital, th...read more

by Chabu Bowler

Many times, the attacks come upon you without warning. You could be outside, perhaps mowing the lawn or doing some gardening. You could just be on a leisurely stroll. You might be simply walking to the mailbox. Or you ...read more

by Jennifer Blaney

Asthma Attacks Allow me to take a temporary dip into self pity - I don't do it very often, I promise! A few months ago I found out I had asthma. I had no idea what that was until I developed a cough that wouldn't go...read more

by Matt Claridge

I don't know what is scarier: the fact that I am living through asthma or that there are so many others doing the exact same thing. Everyone's story is different, but each of them carries the same underlining theme. Having...read more

by E. Rae Fallesen

I've been asthmatic since the age of three. I spend some time thinking that I'd outgrown it and had it return full blast about two years ago. I dormed in college, specifically choosing no-smoking! I had no idea that the...read more

by Leslie Kelly

I was diagnosed with asthma at 17. My case was so severe that the doctor whom I went to see told me that she had never heard a case like mine before. And I mean heard. I had an audible rattle in my chest. I cou...read more

by Douglas Robbins

Every healthy kid tends to think he is immune to ever having a sickness or a serious medical concern. My early life as a child and teenager was no different. I loved to play sports like baseball, hockey, soccer, riding my ...read more

by Paul Perrault

I was diagnosed with asthma at the age of 33 in 1985 and just about four years ago, 2003, I went into respritory failure, where I was in a coma for six days. Like a fool I let a cold persist thinking I could get rid of it ...read more

by Peter Harris

A Winter`s Tale. Hi, I am a life-long asthma sufferer, having being born with the "condition". Naturally, my childhood was plagued with visits to the hospital, asthma clinics and other such places - I can remember now t...read more

by klokie

I have asthma as an adult. It's interesting to read the other articles. I had a whole lot of problems with allergies as a youth and teen. I'm only 46 now. I had an allergy to our family cat who had kittens and then the...read more

by Rebecka Kilkenny

Living with asthma as an adult after learning to cope with it during my early childhood years, doesn't make having asthma any less of an inconvenience now. Asthma has an impact on my everyday life because it requires me t...read more