Shortest Admission For Months!
I feel like it says something about my asthma when I'm excited that I only needed an overnight admission for the attack I had yesterday! I was on holiday in Lanzarote last week (very low pollen so absolute heaven for someone with severe allergic asthma!) which was brilliant, but unfortunately it did mean that any tolerance I had been building up to the grass pollen disappeared. Cue an almost instant deterioration in peak flow and symptoms on return to England. It steadily dropped over a few days from my personal best of 440 down to around 230 at which point I decided to bite the bullet and increase my prednisolone back up to 40mg from 30mg (that reducing regime is going really well...) in the hope of managing to get some sleep. The insomnia from the steroids may be annoying, but at least I could breath a bit better and cough less overnight! The next day things hadn't really improved so I rang the severe asthma nurses at my local (who now know me quite well) for some advice