I mainly want to see if there are any late diagnoses like me, who was 15.
Not me but my now husband at 27. I laid my head on his chest going to sleep and heard wheezing. I asked him if he always wheezed lol. He thought he was just out of shape and combined with really bad allergies. Respiratory conditions suck.
4, when I got a partially collapsed lung.
2 when I almost died in the hospital.
I was 5 when I had a wheezing fit running around at recess and noticeably couldn’t run as fast as the other kids. I told a teacher, she asked me if I had asthma. I said no because I didn’t know at the time, and told my parents “The teacher thinks I have asthma”. We went to the doctor and he gave me an inhaler, that’s all I remember.
I got mild asthma around 30 thanks to COVID
Probably has a lot to do with access to healthcare. My parents were kind of hypochondriacs when i was young, so i was diagnosed as a toddler.
Lots of parents don’t know what to make of a kid wheezing, especially if it’s infrequent and mainly associated with illness. If you aren’t familiar with asthma you’d probably not suspect anything.
I was suspected to have asthma as a child so I asked my parents and they laughed it off until I nearly passed out when I had to do a running test in Freshman Gym class.
