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Originally Posted by rangerdavid (Post 10784160)

my asthma seems to have gotten better since i started cycling. I've lost almost 40 lbs. which no doubt has some affect on the situation. I also have allergies. I use a symbacort inhaler morning and evening. Albuterol as an emergency inhaler. I don't know what PED means, but I'm assuming that it's some kind of doping that is tested for. As I'm no where near being a competitive racer, I find that breathing is much more important.

+1 The exercise seems to have helped my breathing a lot. My asthma is well controlled on Advair, but cycling in conjunction with Advair has really improved my breathing it seems.

I had asthma all my life and the older I get the better I get, I have both albuterol and Flovent the generic Advair, which I find to be best product to control my Asthma and prevent any flareups.

With that being said, I need my inhaler maybe 1 or twice a year, don't really bother to carry it with me, since the flovent prevents my asthma from flaring up

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Originally Posted by therhodeo (Post 10763192)

http://www.qualityhealth.com/asthma-...affeine-asthma

Interesting article I read yesterday.

I've done research on this issue and for every article that says caffeine is good for asthma, there's one of these as well http://www.buzzle.com/articles/asthm...-it-worse.html