Being an athlete in a cold-weather sport is really difficult to deal with the asthma.
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Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.
What people need to know is that asthma isn't a minor 'wheeze-disease.' It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could've been one of them.
As a child I had terrible asthma.
I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 18 during my freshman year at UCLA. I refused to accept it - and I hid it from my coaches and teammates. But ignoring my problem didn't make it go away.
As long as they are medicated the right way with the asthma medicine they won't have any problems.
I'm an asthmatic. I have to be on that treadmill singing to get my lungs right.
Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma.
I'm asthmatic. I was a lot bigger back then, and I still get winded on stage today. But I've learned how to pace it now. I have musical breaks in there.
For years I felt that I didn't have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting enough air but I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma. The medicine for asthma never worked.
There are few restrictions on your life with asthma, as long as you take care of yourself.