Quote Originally Posted by hills View Post
Rationally ... her symptoms didn't match up with Covid-19. I think between the two of us ... we decided that it was more likely asthma. Asthma is an allergic reaction to something in the air. A lot of folks suffer with spring allergies. Asthma is just a more intense reaction than runny nose & watery eyes.
Yep, I for sure know what asthma is. It can have many triggers not just for an allergy like pollen. I have had chronic asthma/allergies, food allergies and chronic allergic rhinitis for 48 years. I stopped using maintenance meds for my asthma a while ago - long story short the powder meds gave me pneumonia twice. Last time anything worked for me was theophylline - no one wants to prescribe it anymore. So because I am no longer on maintenance meds, I use my rescue inhaler twice daily when I am perfectly fine, more if I exercise and more when I am sick or having a reaction to lots of dust etc...



The bad thing is my inhaler doesn't help as much when I am sick, why I have been using it more lately - it's not pollen for sure here, and it's not pollution either. Not saying it's Covid but it's something other than an allergy.