Every since I was a small kid, asthma has always been a problem. I’ve had many a sleepless night because of weezing and inhaler of empty, which is a horror that I wouldn’t wish on anyone. Also just waking up to the realisation that one can’t breathe, even with the inhaler nearby, ain’t fun.
The article on outdoor air pollution that I reposted had me thinking. I’ve had moderately bad asthma my entire life. I’ve always needed to have a rescue inhaler near me at all times. For half of the year, since aged ten or do, I’ve needed a steroidal inhaler, otherwise I’d be hitting the rescue inhaler all day. But something happened around some unspecified time in the last few years that my asthma just disappeared. Fuck I wish I could pinpoint the year, it’s just something that happened without notice, and I chalked it up to “people grow out of asthma”.
Since 2020, I’ve been consistently doing the n95 thing, as well as nearly always having a HEPA filter on around me when indoors.
I guess I’m curious how likely it is I grew out of asthma vs just cleaner air. I wish I could have more data on my symptom timeline, but those memories are just a blur.
As a mod of c/covid, I promise that no one will get banned for saying “nah people do grow out of asthma”.
Growing up, elevation played a major part in how bad my asthma was. But when I moved to a lower elevation the majority of the problems subsided. Then working a couple years of manufacturing, and two more years after that in a smokey environment, my asthma flairs up a lot more frequently. I was getting a lot better at masking up, but I’ve kinda backslid again. They definitely do help filter out all the smoke and shit from the air