I've had asthma off and on my whole life including a few trips to the ER. Right now it is under control and as someone that has read thousands of pages of research on the subject, I'll impart what I know in a very long winded thread "soon". Be forewarned; some of it is voodoo alternative medicine that your doc will snicker at but it helped me.

Its nice to have an asthma thread, I'm tired of non asthmatics telling me they know what its like because they had a chest cold once, or maybe instead of trying to suck in air we should just HTFU.