I mainly want to see if there are any late diagnoses like me, who was 15.
2 when I almost died in the hospital.
4, when I got a partially collapsed lung.
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.
When I was 5, then I seemingly got better as a teenager and didn’t need an inhaler for about ten years. I got covid in my early twenties and got re-diagnosed after it ruined my lungs. And I do mean re-diagnosed, they wouldn’t prescribe me new inhalers from my original diagnosis after ten years of not taking them and I had to get a peak flow prescribed and do the tests over the phone since we couldn’t do it in person thanks to the pandemic.
