In the summer of 2010, I traveled for one month to Munich, Chamonix, France….Normandy, Waterloo, the Ardennes in Belgium and finally, Amsterdam. I never used the precautionary prednesone that my doctor sent with me….I don’t remember using my inhaler ….not once. I told my doctor about it when I got back to the States and once again, began wheezing. I want to plan another trip for next year, but I wondered if anyone else had these breathing problems in certain cities….I will go to Europe in 2012 and I’ll stay the whole summer if I have to…..just to get into a city where I don’t have to be on medications and inhalers. The summer of 2011 in France, Italy and Ireland was absolutely horrible and I thought I would die at least twice. Does anyone else know of cities that are easy on asthmatics? – part 2 of 3 posts about asthma at home in SC and abroad -submitted by Khaki Berry in South Carolina
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Asthma in France, Italy, Rome, Ireland, and England, 2011
I traveled for a month this summer. I took along the usual 7 days of prednesone just in case and the inhalers that keep me going. First two weeks, I was in southern France….Antibes and along the Mediterranean…used up my prednesone there….took the train to Florence and could hardly breathe. By the time I got to Rome and the humid heat of the summer of 2011, I was barely able to tour the city. I had gone through 4 inhalers and was on my last one. Pretty scary. Flew to Dublin, Ire. and on my second night in a Temple Bar area luxury hotel, I had the front desk call an ambulance…the ER visit was only 4-6 hours, but the doctor said he sees many, many cases of people with asthma attacks in Dublin. Flew then to Essex, England and another doctor visit at a nearby clinic. Both visits landed me more steroids and another 8 lbs. ….came home and ended up in the hospital for 6 nights in my hometown of Bluffton, SC….the worst heat ever……the summer of 2011 has not been fun and I’ve put on almost 20 lbs since May. – part 1 of 3 posts about asthma at home in SC and abroad -submitted by Khaki Berry in South Carolina
