Sport Induced Asthma

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Mayanorange, your story sounds so much like mine! After reflecting on the nature of my breathing attacks, I decided they didn't fit the profile of either asthma or panic disorder and I knew the primary constriction was in my vocal cords, not my lungs, and associated with crying or feeling like crying.

Just a couple of days ago I did some web searching and found a lot of information on a condition whose most common name seems to be vocal cord dysfunction (VCD). It is often misdiagnosed as asthma, especially when exercise-induced or stress-induced, and many sufferers are young, female athletes under competitive pressure. I'm wondering whether the hormonal/emotional link could also make perimenopausal athletes (like me) susceptible to this condition.

Anyway, I could go on here, and there is also a reply in the "Injury--panic--asthma" thread that I didn't find until after I started to write this reply, but I think VCD is important enough to start a new thread in this forum and I'm about to do that, with some references I found. Hope to see some of you there!

Val