What does and asthma attack feel like?

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Imagine an elephant sitting on your chest, it is that much of an effort to inhale.

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its is very bad dear

It feels like you cant breathe Like you can't breath and your chest is caving in.

Can't breath. Pure & simple. You cannot draw air adequately in to the lungs/

Asthma (Az-muh) is a chronic disease that affects your airways. The airways are the tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs. If you have asthma, the inside walls of your airways are inflamed (swollen). The inflammation (IN-fla-MAY-shun) makes the airways very sensitive, and they tend to react strongly to things that you are allergic to or find irritating. When the airways react, they get narrower, and less air flows through to your lung tissue. This causes symptoms like wheezing (a whistling sound when you breathe), coughing, chest tightness, and trouble breathing, especially at night and in the early morning.

Asthma cannot be cured, but most people with asthma can control it so that they have few and infrequent symptoms and can live active lives.

When your asthma symptoms become worse than usual, it is called an asthma episode or attack. During an asthma attack, muscles around the airways tighten up, making the airways narrower so less air flows through. Inflammation increases, and the airways become more swollen and even narrower. Cells in the airways may also make more mucus than usual. This extra mucus also narrows the airways. These changes make it harder to breathe.

u feel that u cant breasth deeply and u hear wheezes durring expiration , and u feel air hunger,and u fined deficulty in cough and expel the mucous out
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i am a doctor

Its horrible! Its as if you are suffocating or the air is laking oxygen. Inhalers can help, but when they dont it gets scary. The important thing is if it doesn't slow down and is getting worse you should seek medical help. My last bad attack was in 1997 and I waited to long before going to the Hospital. My oxygen level was extremely low and kept me in the hospital for two weeks. It's pretty scary to have doctors and nurses surrounding you and looking worried because your not improving from all the shots. Medication for prevention has become so much better in the last ten years. Aculate and Singular are miracles!
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Have had Asthma for 30 years.

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