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New Year, New...Wheeze?

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Current prednisolone dose: 40mg (boooo) New year weight: 329.2lbs (oops!) So 2018 is finally over! I'm not going to lie, its a year I'm pretty glad to see the back of, with 13 admissions to hospital with severe or life threatening asthma attacks and who knows how many further trips to A&E and the GP with it! It was a pretty difficult year mentally because of this, aside from just coping with the admissions themselves I was pretty low functioning in between them so became quite isolated (although my friends and family were all absolutely amazing in making sure they kept me involved in things!), I gained a lot of weight (between low activity levels, high doses of steroids and eating away my feelings I didn't have much hope there!) and had to suspend my studies because of the amount of time I was spending in hospital. Having said that, now that I finally feel like I'm starting to come out the other side I think its made me a much stronger person (every cloud