I don't have the diagnosis of Asthma yet but just finished the pulmonary breathing test at Mayo Jacksonville. Wow, was that difficult, hard on the lungs, and I coughed for two days after.

I was having problems with breathing becoming difficult during the swim portion of Sprint Triathlon. If something went wrong (mask leaking, injury, being hit by others, rough water) my breathing would become very difficult and felt like I could not breathe in deep enough to continue to swim. Then the coughing and phelm being coughed up would pretty well stop the race for me.

I swim over a mile in a pool without any issues. One day had an argument with a use of a LAP SWIMMING ONLY pool who wanted to walk. The poos is designed for lap swimming and is deep to allow the push offs from ends. Did not think anything about it then started to do my swim and the same unable to deep breathe and coughing started and had not even swam a lap yet.

I looked at symptoms of Asthma and I had most of them. I am now following this group as I have all the symptoms and waiting for my pulmonary results. I did use an inhaler (albuterol) one time when I got bronchitis really bad and it was a dramatic improvement over symptoms.

My parents were all the time smokers and grew up in a house and cars full of smoke all the time. Had really bad bronchial infections and sinus infections for decades until had 3 sinus surgeries. Now it lookes like I have developed asthma. Do my symptoms seem familiar to others. The amount of phelm I cough up is drastic and the more I cough the more phelm.