I have Zyrtec now as I think the allergist recommended that. I'll try taking one before my ride to see if it helps. I use the inhaler twice before rides. My GP said to take it, then again in about 20 min. so I do that before I head out the door. I haven't taken the inhaler on the ride as it doesn't seem to do anything as I have ridden out the door and immediately gotten a pain in my chest from the wind (just after the 2nd inhale), but as soon as I get to the LBS to start the ride, and I am stopped, it goes away. It even stops if I am drafting and getting enough of a wind break, but as soon as I'm back in the wind, even a good cross wind, back comes the feeling of being out of breath. It's only if I keep pushing with the out of breath feeling that it goes into the spasm and into my chest/neck/shoulders/arms. When that happens I turn my head sideways so I'm not getting the direct wind and that helps a lot, but not exactly a safe way to ride.

Hopefully my GP will send me to the asthma guys and maybe they'll refer me to the allergist and I'll get this all figured out. Of course knowing Murphy's Law, it will happen just when the weather warms up so we won't know if it was the meds or the change in weather! D'OH!

Just looked up the Cold urticarial. It sounds like what may be happening with me occasionally. Only problem is, I constantly ice my legs and arms after workouts with no problems, so it's intermittent with me. That just me, nothing works normal on me. I even herniated several discs in my back, and they herniated on the opposite side so my symptoms were backwards. Nobody could figure it out for months. Fortunately, I can ride a road bike because they went the opposite direction, but I can't MTB...go figure! (LOL)