"Wayne Boatwright" <wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon 17 Apr 2006 10:01:43p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it -L.?
>
>>
>> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>> On Mon 17 Apr 2006 08:06:05p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it
>>> Christine Dabney?
>>>
>>> > cough-variant asthma
>>>
>>> Christine... How does one recognize this?
>>
>> I'm not Christine, but basically you cough as your only symptom (or
>> nearly only symptom). Your lungs can inhale the air but have trouble
>> expelling it, so you cough...and cough...and cough...to try to expell
>> the air. It is often misdiagnosed as bronchitis or URI (viral) and
>> doctors don't know that what they are looking at is asthma.
>>
>> For me, I get triggered by normal "asthma" triggers - smoke, perfumes,
>> hot or cold air, etc. Then I cough my head off until I can do a couple
>> of puffs of albuterol. I also am on Advair prophylactically during
>> cold season. When under the spell, I wheeze at night but not the
>> gasping wheeze of a normal asthmatic - it's more like a whistle. I
>> also am short of breath and tight at times, but not normally - normally
>> I just cough. My spirometry tests show almost normal patterns, but
>> trouble expelling air, especially at the end.

Same here for me -- however, unbelievably, albuterol makes it even worse; my
body must think of it as smoke, perfume, hot and cold air, because it
triggers it under testing.

Are you saying that "cough-variant asthma" is the term for "trouble
expelling air"? If so, I will have to remember that so as be more
knowledgeable about this condition.
Thanks for taking the time to explain.
Dee Dee