Hardest aspects - Asthma Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
One of the hardest things about asthma has been sleeping at night. When I have my asthma active, I cough and it's hard to breathe. It's a constant tickle at the back of my throat and that makes it harder to sleep at night, especially when I'm coughing. Another difficult thing about asthma is when I'm coughing, it just feels awkward to be around people because it's constant, a couple times a minute cough, especially more so when I'm talking a lot than it aggravates the back of my respiratory system and I cough more.
Video 2 Transcript
For me, the hardest aspect of having asthma was I was on the basketball team and it was really hard for me to breathe. And it was hard because people didn't believe I had asthma because I was normally pretty much fine, but it was when I struggled during games and stuff. And so it wasn't until I finally got it treated that I was able to help.
Video 3 Transcript
I find the hardest aspect of having asthma or COPD as I've got now is giving up smoking. I know I'm stupid and a lot of you might think I'm stupid, but it's a really bad addiction with me. Because I have Tourette's as well, I have obsessions, I have addiction problems. I'm just obsessed with smoking. I can't put it down. I have anxiety because of my childhood growing up with Tourette's. Smoking is the main problem with my asthma, COPD I should say.
Video 4 Transcript
I would say the hardest aspect of asthma is not being able to feel like you can fully do the things that you want to do. A lot of times asthma can kick in at times when you're working out or hiking or just any time really, and you can't always complete the things that you want to do because of it. Even if your body feels like it's going well, you just can't get enough air in, and so that can be really challenging sometimes.
Video 5 Transcript
Sometimes just having asthma can prematurely count you out for stuff. Like if you are trying to apply for different things or if you're involved in different things and your doctor or coach or somebody sees you have asthma, sometimes they can count you out. I'll give you an example. I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and I served a full-time mission. I was in Albania and I was in Albania right when COVID happened and so I actually got sent home about three months earlier for my mission because I had asthma and my mission president and mission doctor were a little bit concerned. We didn't know how COVID was going to react with people who had asthma. That at least has been the hardest experience I've had with asthma thus far in my life. It's just it took me out of something a little bit earlier than I wanted it to.
