Dr. Brackett wrote:
former asthmatic wrote:I learned to breathe through my nose while running, which takes patience. I was addicted to that damned albuterol for years and years, and even ran sprints in high school because I couldn't handle running much more that an few hundred yards.
Check out a breathing technique called Buteyko. I haven't taken my inhaler in over a year, and I was taking several times a day a year ago.
Good luck
I don't get this asthma deal. Why does it seem like everybody in the world has either asthma or autism? Seriously, I'd never heard of autism until Rainman came out. Now I'm hearing crap that every ten minutes some kids is diagnosed with it. How the hell did everyone start catching this stuff?!
Its true. I don't know about autism, but I have heard some startling statistics about asthma. In East Berlin, where there was more pollution and less medical care, an independent researcher found that fewer children had asthma than in West Berlin, where the medical care was state of the art.
A book I read said that previous to the advent of the "rescue inhalers" there were almost no fatalities from asthma. The higher the number of rescue inhaler prescriptions, the more fatalities. (Of course, one can say that the more fatalities, the higher the number of prescriptions.)
Unless you learn to deal with the fear that accompanies an asthma attack, you will become dependent on your medicine.
Anyway, good luck, check out Buteyko, and breathe through your nose!