Normally, I really hate self-diagnosing. (Mostly because it's not accurate, at all.) My mom's going to take me to the doctor's soon, but she's sure that it's not asthma. I've done some research on my symptoms, and that's the only thing that it matches up with, even if it's minor.

I used to have breathing problems as a child, and I used to have an inhaler, so I'm fairly certain that's what it is.

So, yeah. What do you think? Asthma or not? Am I overreacting?

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"There she stumbles, falling to her knees
She must have tripped on reality."

So it's asthma.

Problems breathing?

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Well I have asthma, and unless your coughing is accompanied by tightness in your chest when you breathe, wheezing, and feeling like someone is sitting on your chest, it's probably not asthma. Have you had a cold recently?

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But, my chest does feel a bit constricted, but it's not too bad right now. It only started feeling like that last night. Before, it was just coughing. I barely ever wheeze, but it does happen occasionally. If I cough and clear my throat, it does stop, though.

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"There she stumbles, falling to her knees
She must have tripped on reality."

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you may have some sort of respiratory infection that has symptoms that mirror asthma...it sounds like you have congestion left from your illness which would explain clearing your throat and coughing at night.  when you're laying down all that congestion sits in your lungs and you cough.  

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But, that could be it. I'll have to go to the doctor's to see.

Post edited at 10:01 am on Oct. 31, 2009 by GIRAFFES

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"There she stumbles, falling to her knees
She must have tripped on reality."