What does asthma feel like?

and how do you know if you’ve it? i feel like sometimes my throat is closing, or my chest is really tight, or sometimes like i have a cotton ball in my throat and it makes it hard to breathe. does this sound like asthma? and also, do the inhalers give you a calming effect, nearly like laughing gas?

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It feels like someone put a bag over your head and is just letting you breath through a small hole. No matter how hard you try you can’t get enough air. Your lungs might feel like they're burning but not always. Your chest will feel tight but, of course, that's because you can't move enough air to expand it. Sometimes it starts slowly and builds and sometimes it's swift but it's always scary.And nothing anyone is doing around you is helping. Even when EVAC gets there you don't feel like they are helping, even with the oxygen and the breathing treatment, it's still very frightening because it's not working fast enough.All you want to do is take a breath and that's the one thing you can't do.When you get to the hospital there are medications that’ll begin the process of opening up your lungs so you can get deeper and deeper breaths. The fear starts to subside and you’ve to apologize to everyone because you probably cursed them out.
Now, if you mean the inhalers have a calming effect because it helps the asthmatic to breathe easier, yes. It reduces the fear. But if you mean does it have a sedative effect no it doesn't.
God bless.

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lol, laughing gas! not so much a calming affect, as a reliever. Inhalers open you airways be soothing the inflamed passages and discouraging globule cells in you bronchi from producing mucus (which, when you’ve asthma with tight airways and damaged ciliated epithelium cells - sorry to go all sciencey on you - build up and block your airways). when you're having an asthma attack, it can feel like someone is sitting on your chest. not really tightness in the throat, even though that can be referred from anxiety. at first you’ve difficulty breathing out and you wheeze (because of the mucus) but as the attack progresses and you get more exhausted,it gets hard to breathe in too. you'll probably cough a lot in an attempt to clear the way, and might feel very thirsty and light headed. sometimes, you fingers and toes go blue and numb sue to lack of oxygen. If you experience these symptoms more then once (especially after exercise) go to the doc and get checked out. another characteristic sign is waking up at night a lot feeling breathless of confused. if you're worried get checked out.
hope i helped.

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let's see, you'll feel like someone is sitting on your chest and no matter what, you can't get enough air. sometimes the shortness of breath is just caused by anxiety or the thought in your mind that you have asthma, for that's what i have. i have an anxiety problem. whenever i think about not breathing, i can't get enough air. so you're feeling that shortness of breath…. you should get an echocardiogram and they can test you. mine ended up as just anxiety. so get it tested just to make sure.

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it feels like someone is suffocating you and you cant breath no matter what. and what you described sounds kind of like an anxiety attack/ panic attack. asthma feels like you are dying and i pass out from lack of o2 and my lips turn purple/blue. and the inhalers make your heart race and no not the same feeling as laughing gas (im 14) with asthma been to hospital before