Originally Posted by
Rick@OCRR
Wow
hartphoto,
Thank you, lots of good information there! I had asthma as a kid, was fine until I was about 40, then it came back with a vengence. I will look up the things you use/suggested to see it they will work for me.
Now I'm on some kind of inhaled steroid (Ventolin?) for use pretty much every day, then albuterol when I need it for esp. cold days or when riding on cold mountain roads (like I did last Saturday). I did the ride, even though it was pretty cold at times (low was 37 Deg.F I think) and the altitude got up to almost 5,000 feet.
http://app.strava.com/activities/36091515
Yes, I agree, coffee helps! I had two cups of coffee and a cinnamon roll when I got to Baldy Village and felt even better after that!
Rick / OCRR
No problem.
For clarification...
Ventolin is albuterol (propellant based inhaler) but as a brand name. Albuterol in a vial/nebulizer solution is usually still called albuterol (as a generic). Albuterol is a 'rescue' option. Flovent, another brand name (is 'usually' prescribed in conjunction with Ventolin as a maintenance option) is fluticasone (or a cortocosteriod). I use SymbiCort (a different cortocosteriod instead).
Forgot to add...with EIA....I can go like a slow locomotive on a bike/walk/hike (or almost any other exercise) for hours with no problems of EIA. That is, until, I try to hit 80-90% of my max heart rate. So, I don't do much mountain biking.....and I'm almost always wearing a HRM on the long hauls, to watch it going up hills....downhill high excitement heart rates don't seem to affect me
I'm no means a doctor or even play one on the 'net. Just saying, for the benefit of others, what has worked the best
for me, and being a lifelong asthmatic.
Also....get yearly flu shots....and my doc has started me on the pneumonia shots. So far so good. A couple of years ago....I had pneumonia 3 times in a year (thanks to kids in an elementary school which I still think is biological experiment).
HTH.