About a year ago I had a very scary experience when I was out riding. I wa coming up a hill and suddenly had trouble breathing. I was relly struggleing and even getting more then 2 words out at a time was difficult. At the time I shrugged it off to just overdoing it.

A couple of months later I was visiting my sister and we were talking about health issues. I told her about what happened and she reminded me about somethng I had forgotten, our dad has asthma ( I haven't talked to him in 20 years so no wonder I forgot..another long story in it's own!!!) So I started wondering if it had been an excercise induded asthma attack.

Mentioned it to my regular dr at my physical and he sent me to see a pulmonary DR. Tests came back normal and since it had been awhile since the original episode had happened I couldn;t accurately describe what had happened and he sort of fluffed me off.

Well I've had a couple of close calls and then today it started happeneing again. My chest started tightening up and I was having a hard time breathing in and then started coughing too. I stopped riding and just rested and after about 10 minutes the chest eased up and breathing seemed to be back to normal. I just took it easy and went for a shorter ride after that.

Now that I've given you my novel, I guess what I am looking for is when you are having an asthma attack, what are you feeling? Is it sort of like what I was feeling or totally different? I plan on calling the pulmonary DR again but would like to have a little knowledge to go on when I do. Thanks!