Quote Originally Posted by Miranda View Post
This is VERY important regarding medicine...

OK, for your albuterol... are you taking your medicine at least 15 minutes *prior* to your exercise?

If you do not, trying to take it after you are already in a full blown attack will do little, to no, good. Unfortunately ...as you have already figured out.

I wear a HR. If my "wind-less-ness" is due to my HR reaching it's max... and when my HR recovers, and I can breath again... I know it was not the asthma. Hope that makes sense. If it was the asthma... you would not be able to recover when your HR came down... you would still be constricted... and could not suck wind in to breath... that would be the asthma.
Hi Miranda, Thank you for the long response. I do take the albuterol before I work out.... and yes, at least 15 minutes before I work out. it is part of my morning "get out the door" routine. My GP told me that it *might* help when I was riding and already short of breath w/ hills---but it isn't.

I may just have to take laps around the neighborhood--but even it is fairly hilly!
Sounds like I need to find a specialist and read up on asthma/allergy docs vs. pulmonologists.

I am waiting on my HR monitor to come in right now (ordered it). How did you determine your max heart rate with your asthma symptoms? Were you able to determine this only when you were medicated properly? Does that question make sense??

Thank you for your thorough reply! Very helpful!