horrendous bleeds and asthma

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asthmatic well controlled all my life.  Peri menopausal massive heavy bleeds. Prior to bleed asthma worsens. Once period kicks in my asthma settles down.   I have kept a chart proving connection between periods and asthma attacks. Both my go and asthma look at me as though I am mad!   Has any other asthmatic found this ???? I am 46 my periods are like clockwork but now knock me off my feet they are so heavy 

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    Ever since I have been in menopause I have been dealing with a lot of allergies I am 46 too it seems like things have cut down for now hopefully for ever pray to God
    • Posted

      Hi Susan, me too. I've had lots of allergies over the past few years, the latest one being mascara, even the Clinique one I've used for years!! I hadn't connected this with peri though but maybe it is?? 😁
    • Posted

       Since turning 46 and peri  I have become allergic to white wine!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My lips swell so much I look ridiculous.  I have considered massaging a little in to see if could be used as cheap alternative to collagen. Lol 
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    Loreen,

    I don't doubt it Loreen, I know I've had to take an allergy pill everyday since my mid 40's. In fact since I turned 40 (am 52 now) my body changed so much. From bowel disorders, bad indigestion, cysts popping up, weight gain, heavy bleeding and since turning 50 many other peri symptoms. I'm chalking it all up to hormone changes. Fun isn't it?

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    Hi, are you absolutely sure its asthma ? Just asking as i was given an inhaler years ago, which didnt help my breathlessness which i had for years together with heavy periods. Now im in menopause i dont get the 'asthma',(touch wood) which i reckon was actually caused by anemia.

    xxxx

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      That's a really valid point. The same happened to me a few years ago and I have never used the inhaler the GP gave me as I didn't agree that it was asthma. I thought at the time it was panic attacks but a couple of years later found I was anaemic. Now I take Spartone these attacks are more infrequent.

      Cami x

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      WOW camikitten i had exactly the same thing, doc said that ihad a mix of anxiety/panic/asthma but struggled on with tthe breathless thing for years . My periods had been heavy for years, I was considering ablation but stuck peri out ,around this time I found I was anemic and took spatone too (this stuff works I know because I had before and after tests). My episodes got less and now I get no periods I get none (touch wood). So go figure docs wegot this sussed sister!!!!!

      xxxx

    • Posted

      Yeh and it's natural from a spring or something tastes "irony", if you know what I mean but at least it's not more chemicals in our tired bodies. Xxxx
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      Hoooo yes. Asthma has been with me from 3 years of age. Hospitalised on a few attacks,  have spent my life controlling it well for many years.        The monthly routine now is ... Allergic reaction .can be skin rash ,lips swell,  nose wall swelling.  Then BANG asthma flares so bad need oral steroids and antibiotics  and as soon as my period kicks in (always very heavy ).  My asthma eases and I'm fighting fit again? 
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      I take mine with a couple of inches of fresh orange juice, gets rid of the 'irony' taste and aids absorption too. Xx
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    loreen

    I think I had glanced at an article a few weeks back in the on-line version of the 'Daily Mail' (UK).  In the same week they had a great article about menopause one day and the next a woman's experience of her asthma becoming must worse in the build-up to her Period. 

    Sorry, I didn't read it in-depth, but would appear to be that some Docs in the UK are acknowledging a connection.

    I was never asthmatic. However in the past few years my breathing has gradually got worse (not helped by where I live, of course). So much so that I now have an inhaler that I use periodically.

    However.......I after reading lots of articles in the Press, I wonder if my irritating 'asthmatic' cough is sometimes bought on by acid reflux?? I'm almost certain it is as I understand the acid can be inhaled into the lungs.  I note too that loads of ladies comment on acid reflux as a symptom of theri Peri. 

    If nothing else, I get an awful lot of reassurance that many of my symptoms that I would ordinarily have thought were totally random, are indeed all part of this bloody Curse we're all forced to endure!!!frown!  For me, it makes it a bit easier to bear as I suppose at some point they'll all go......ever the optimist, me!

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