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[amycooper]

As a kid I had constant out of control asthma. It was bad, really bad. And I’d often get in trouble for not using my albuterol inhaler, even when I was having an attack because I didn’t like the way it made me feel.

As I got older and was a teen, I remember complaining to the allergist about it and how my asthma attacks always got worse when I used it. He always brushed me off.  Insisted that I continue using it.  Said my asthma won't get better unless I use it regularly.

Well, I haven’t had much asthma trouble in years because I started avoiding Red Dye #40 (which the allergist said it was impossible to be allergic to but I break out in hives if I touch it so…). Well, I just had the flu and that triggered my asthma. And again that got much worse directly after using my inhaler (which I haven’t had to use regularly in nearly two decades). So I called my current doctor and described what happens when I use it.

I’m 38 years old and I am only now diagnosed as being allergic to albuterol, despite probably being allergic to it all my life.  Needless to say, the inhaler really, really does not help me.  I guess I'm just lucky it only causes/worsens asthma attacks and makes my throat itchy as fuck instead of, you know, closing up my throat.