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geoff samantha and me all have puffers on our nightstand: who else
plus what brings it on - eg w. me cats, dogs, horses, cereal-type flora in general, dust, overeating and tartrazine - and what are your doctors doing about it?

― mark s, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

my dad is allergic to reindeer and mimosa and his asthma was cured by GETTING MARRIED!! (= family legend, but chronologically if not medically true)

― mark s, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

doctors = ?

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

::cough, cough:: new.

(my grandfather has begun to use one, but that i think is mostly owing to age and the slow shutting down of the body that comes after 85 or so. at the rate i'm smoking i'll be sure to need some sort of breathing device in the near future.)

― jess, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mine's mostly pets and smoking. The guy and I have both stopped smoking. However we have one large goofy dog and two cats. All of whom like to sleep with us. How can I kick them out?

― Samantha, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My brother was convinced he was an asthmatic and got given a breath speed testerdealie. Me and my brothers spent many an evening trying to outweedylungs each other to see who really had the most asthma. Needless to say, medically none does.

― Graham, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

with your feet? I'm dead allergic to cats which is a shame because they're mighty cool. I love the taste of my puffer, I got a new one today and had to have a puff eventhough I wasn't wheezy.

― Jonnie, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

exercise, polon, some perfumes...smoking 16 mg cigarettes is the only thing that regulates my breathing if I haven't got my puffer near me.

― Geoff, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am allergic to: dust, pollen, grass, ragweed, plants in general, cotton, dogs, cats, rabbits, and mangoes. I found out the last one the hard way, because I ate one and ended up getting second degree burn-like marks all over my face and inside my mouth and throat. Not fun, to say the least.

I take prescription allergy pills, but since they make me feel loagy and odd I try to take them as a last resort, such as when the pollen count is really high.

― Nicole, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Did I tell you that I am unbreakable. Therefore - like all the health questions - this one does not apply to me.

― Pete, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

cigs = short-term relief, long-term disaster?

If you can find someone who isn't a total new age pinhead to teach you it, I seriously recommnend yoga breathing exercises to wean you off the puffers somewhat, cuz they do damage also,m in the long run.

― mark s, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have one but use it very rarely, usually when pollution levels are really bad, then I start wheezing badly, combined with hayfever, it's a damn nuisance.

― chris, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I use Chris's puffer sometimes too.

― JOnnie, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Very true Mark. When I did yoga regularly I was able to stop using puffers. I've become fat and lazy lately though so find the breathing difficult.

― Samantha, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Can you still eat the contents of puffers and get a speed-like buzz? Or is this urban legend?

Required listening for asthma sufferers - 'Ventolin' by the Aphex Twin. But I know of no literary characters who suffer from asthma - anybody know differently?

― Andrew L, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Today, for the first time in nearly six months, I was able to walk the little way uphill from Ludgate Circus to work without wheezing and being hideously out-of breath and wheezing like a bad 'un. Although I am still experiencing night-time wheeziness, it may be that my interminable lung complaint is getting a little better.

If that were to be the case I should be very glad. The sooner I strike my name from the list of IL* lung-weaklings the better. However, I suppose I must count myself among the wheezers for now. No inhalers though. I'm too *hard* for that.

― Tim, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The hero kid from The Goonies had asthma.

― Jonnie, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Proust himself had it bad bad bad, but does anyone in his books?

― mark s, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My brother's got asthma and whenever we go on holiday my mum always buys him cheap inhalers from the dodgy pharmacists as his present.

She also buys him fags.

― jamesmichaelward, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Since we're in L.Bangs territory, I recall that decongestant effect of long-superseded meidication brovon was like a kind of total erection of the lungs: an indescribably fantastic sensation which I wuvved. It was brown and "went bad" quite quickly: you breathed it out of this fantastic old-style inhaler made of curlicued blown glass. Also - poss. unrelated, hmmm - as a v.v.small child I drank a whole bottle of my *dad's* brovon (guess the "marriage" cure hadn't kicked in yet: nevah tht of that before) and had to be rushed to hospital.

(Or host-pital, as my mum still calls it)

― mark s, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

D'OH! Just remembered Piggy from 'Lord Of The Flies' - “My auntie told me not to run on account of my asthma.”

― Andrew L, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Doesn't Milhaus have it too? In the Lord of the Flies episode of the Simpsons I think Bart uses it as an underwater breathing device to get the food box. 'Go Banana' is also in that episode.

― Jonnie, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"I've become fat and lazy lately though"

oy. ditto. and why is it that fat & lazy always = somehow smoking MORE than before?? oh, its a deadly path i trod...

― jess, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't have asthma, but when I move my shoulders in a certain way (a kind of violent version of the twist) my lungs make a funny noise. I would demonstrate, but it makes me look really stupid so I reserve it for the privacy of my bedroom, when I'm bored.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

am pretty sure gordon from praise by andrew mcgahan has asthma, though he too smoes chronicly, maybe he just has bad skin, i dunno.

― Geoff, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

As Ralph said, Sucks to your ass-mar.

― Sam, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Did you know Ghorrilas often eat their own neon green shit? Weird. Dumb apes!

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ahh, but let's not forget the post-puff high! I just took a whiff of the ol' ventolin -- gotta love that tremble!

― Samantha, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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