Originally Posted by Machka

My Exercise Induced Asthma was diagnosed in 2005. Since then it has progressed to be "Stress Induced Asthma" including both exercise and things like, say, Public Speaking.

There I was standing in front of an audience a few years ago giving a speech, and I couldn't breathe. I gasped my way to the end of the speech, and sat down. The audience was critiquing my speaking ability, and almost all of them said something along the lines of "There was a lot of gasping and wheezing going on". Yeah ... me trying not to faint from lack of oxygen.