managing asthma

packing = dust = asthma = sucks

The best things I ever did for my allergies and asthma were to lose weight and get into better shape.

Swimming is fucking great for asthma.

i can't do either of those things by monday.

a dust mask then - available from the hardware/diy store

Not meant rudely btw, but based on my own personal experience: I do the vacuuming in my flat looking like Dennis Hooper in Blue Velvet.

haha. ya, i think i might have some dust masks left from some plastering/drywall shit i was doing last month which made me hack and wheeze like a mofo. the plastering, not the masks.

apparently lots and lots of apple juice is particularly good for asthma management

i tried that but i got all sticky.

drink it don't bathe in it

for a quick fix allegra + ventolin/albuterol might do the trick, assuming you've got those handy (which a lot of asthmatics do).

yoga has helped me tremendously, any type really. hurting OTM about getting into shape.

ya i'm rocking the v-money.

I read a frightening account of a guy who intentionally infected himself with hookworm to get rid of his asthma. As it involved walking around barefoot in Africa to get the initial infection, probably not practical. It did work for him though.

i read that story too. he went to cameroon and jumped into piles of infected excrement outside people's homes. I HAVE MY DOUBTS ABOUT THE VERACITY OF THIS TALE. [ /sherlock holmes]

the cold air here in new york is hell on my lungs. i plan to get up to date with my asthma scrips when i'm back in l.a. (where my doctor/insurance is), but i rarely if ever get attacks out there. i think part of what's making my symptoms worse is my anxiety -- it's the "don't think of pink elephants" thing of fixating on something i wish i could stop doing, i.e. hyperventilating. buteyko only works if you can actually GET to that calm place where you can breathe correctly without forcing it.

cold air + packing up old apartment and hella dust + just got sick + stress = perfect storm of asthma in dec

asthma sucks. think the air conditioner in the temporary apartment I'm staying in might be moldy. gonna buy some air con cleaner tonight.

I'm always terrified that my body will build up a resistance to albuterol, which leads me to using it less often than I should

also hey piggy! sucks to your ass-mar.

putting this here because I had a hell of a time finding a website that wasn't trying to sell me the info instead of just giving it:

http://www.btinternet.com/~andrew.murphy/asthma_buteyko_shallow_breathing.html

wheeze wheeze...cold weather i guess