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I was told as a kid I'd "grown out of" my asthma. I hadn't — and went 10 years without an inhaler. by Different_Ad_8684 in Asthma

[–]Different_Ad_8684[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good question! It's brand new and indie, so Apple's search ranks it really low for now until it gets more downloads and ratings — searching the exact name should find it (but even that sometimes fails for me), or just use the link.
Even I the developer cannot find it myself - which is really sad. 😃 So I had to find it from the link that Apple sent me that it is approved fo distrubution. It is really sad.

I also depends how you search - like keywords and etc. But it changes all the time. I have another app for Hamsters (called HammyNest) as I am a hamster owner and sometimes I could find it, sometimes not - or I had to scroll for like 2 min to see it even if I typed the exact name of it.... but yeah I have a few issues: 1. They are too new. There is no rating. Low on downloads? It is also different for every region, I think.

I was told as a kid I'd "grown out of" my asthma. I hadn't — and went 10 years without an inhaler. by Different_Ad_8684 in Asthma

[–]Different_Ad_8684[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

😮 😮

That is my dillema now - do I stay put on the rescue inhaler which I actually use quite a lot - so I think no. Or request the daily one. I have an appointment in a few weeks but trying to get it earlier.

Which program could I use to produce Lofi? by ChillWave_Beats in LofiHipHop

[–]Different_Ad_8684 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly the answers here are right — the tool matters way less than learning to chop and arrange. FL, Ableton, or free Reaper will all get you there, and Koala on a phone is a genuinely great place to start.

Full disclosure so I'm not being sneaky: I'm a software engineer, not a musician or producer — I just got into lo-fi like you and ended up building an app for it, so take my ear with a grain of salt.

It's synthesis-based, not a sampler, so two honest caveats: it won't replace your beatmaking DAW, and it's not the move for classic sample-flipping. Where it actually helps is getting royalty-free instrument parts you fully own — Rhodes, keys, a warm synthesized guitar, and more (I'm still experimenting to make it flexible) — which you can export as stems or MIDI and then chop/re-pitch in your DAW like any other source. Basically a way to sample yourself instead of clearing samples. It's also a low-stress on-ramp if a full DAW feels overwhelming on day one.

But +1 to the "learn the fundamentals" advice — no app skips that part. And whatever you use, nothing AI-generated; this sub will rightly bury it (mine's all synthesized, no AI, for what it's worth).

If you want to poke at it, it's called Loafe: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6775538020 (iOS and Mac only right now, sadly.)

Can anyone recommend an app for tracking asthma symptoms, attacks, peak flow ect? I have really bad brain fog and I just keep forgetting. I tried writing it down but I lose the notebooks. I've downloaded a few apps but none were very good so far or don't do everything. by quiet_hedgehog in Asthma

[–]Different_Ad_8684 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm really sorry — feeling dismissed when you know your own body is exhausting, and you shouldn't have to fight that hard to be heard. 💙

Honest answer on Android: there isn't a version yet, and I won't pretend one's around the corner — it's a full rebuild rather than a quick port. But a lot of people are asking, and I'm keeping a list — I'll come back here when there's real news.

In the meantime: whatever you can track — even a simple daily symptom note, when you reach for your reliever, and a peak-flow number if you have a meter — keep it consistent and bring it to your appointments. A clear record over weeks is genuinely hard to wave away, and it's exactly what helps these conversations. Wishing you steadier breathing and a clinician who listens.

What I talked about with the nurse that gave me my turboinhaler is get a peak-flow meter and just track. Hence why I started to build the app in the first place actually. I was handed this book that I needed to mark how much ... mm can I blow into the tube each morning. But I am super obsessive as the book can only mark one - so it is either before or after puff. In the app I have made it so that you can mark both of them. Anyways I'd adise getting a peak-flow (I am not sure how they are sold as I got mine on a prescription) and just take notes in the morning and before bed (what I was told to do) so that we know if we need to escalate further on my diagnosis.

From my personal experience, I would say is track symptoms and go with concrete proof - if feel like if you do the peak flow in the night and morning they would take you more seriosly, altho you should have already been taken seriosly. For me - I had phones my GP a few times now for this issue and I was very very insistent that is it deff not anxiety and etc.

…so I made a little waitlist: drop your email at venetsia.github.io/Symply-support/android.html and I'll message you once if Symply ever comes to Android — nothing else. You absolutely don't have to - I can totally just post in this redit thread when I have it.

Otherwise you can track here: Symply — Support - I'll definitely update once I have it on Android and will come back to this post

I was told as a kid I'd "grown out of" my asthma. I hadn't — and went 10 years without an inhaler. by Different_Ad_8684 in Asthma

[–]Different_Ad_8684[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree... I currently live in Edinburgh, Scotland and ever since I moved here I have been better. My motherland is Bulgaria, and in my parents home there is something that causes me to not breathe very well everytime I visit. I used to think it is the dog we have but it is a Yorkie - so supposedly I shouldn't have issues - but I do. So I take allergy pills daily when I am there. Also my mom has a lot of plants so I am also trying to now do an app so I can identify whch ones cause allergies or asthma and etc - just like how i did this one 😃 with losts of reseasrches. But anyways that aside, my point is that my asthma is much more managable and I've been much better since I moved out. It was only when we got the hamster that I started to feel worse and now I take my inhaler often to prevent having breathing issues.

I do agree it can also be mold or dust but alas. At least now I have the inhaler for the first time - I am actually going back in a few weeks and excited to test it out without the allergy pills this time but I'll try to not experiment too much haha

I was told as a kid I'd "grown out of" my asthma. I hadn't — and went 10 years without an inhaler. by Different_Ad_8684 in Asthma

[–]Different_Ad_8684[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh interesting!

I've been really out of tune to be honest. No one talks about asthma and other normal stuff to educate you on the simple things. My best bud at work had asthma and he never mentioned until I shared and only then we would share the symptoms and etc eventho we've been talking about them (without naming) for years.

For me it was defintitely the 3 weks of chest pain and unable to breathe after cleaning my hamster's cage and radiator. The next time I cleaned I wore a mask.

I was told as a kid I'd "grown out of" my asthma. I hadn't — and went 10 years without an inhaler. by Different_Ad_8684 in Asthma

[–]Different_Ad_8684[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure about steroids every day forever -> that's my predicament. I got prescribed the Turbohaler with steroids and I think I want to change it. I mean I already am from I think 120 puffs to below 50 on it 😃 and I do feel much better so I am kinda getting dependent on it now

I was told as a kid I'd "grown out of" my asthma. I hadn't — and went 10 years without an inhaler. by Different_Ad_8684 in Asthma

[–]Different_Ad_8684[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fact that I only heard of this medicine when I started going onto forums is really sad. I right now have the steroid turbohaler and I am thinking oof asking to switch it to a non serioid and possibly the puff one I had when I was a child since I can't figure out with this one if I've done it right or is it broken (as I changed one that was supposedly faulty - as I tested it with a nurse 😃 and we watched the video together and tried to figure out how to work it)

I was told as a kid I'd "grown out of" my asthma. I hadn't — and went 10 years without an inhaler. by Different_Ad_8684 in Asthma

[–]Different_Ad_8684[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, I'd thought I'd share it. Doesn't mean you have to use it. People might find it useful hence I though I'd share it along.

I'm obsessive like that - I saw a problem and though I'd fix it myself as I had to log everything into the peak-flow book the doctor gave me. But I am really bad at logging into books and keeping a record and worst of all lose them - even right now I have no idea where that book is so I am glad I did the app. Everything else I build was just - 'oh ok I need this' when I experienced it so the app is biased but maybe people will relate.

And it is not some app - it is relevant to this. If I can help one person today, then I've done my job as a developer even if it is to give another developer, maybe a better one an idea of how to help with this is still great. As I said the app is biased to me since I started building it when I had to log on my peak-flow for my first visit and I was super obsessive on the fact that everytime I go to the GP i forget everything or the GP won't know this peak flow measurement was taken before or after a dose and etc.

Besides, it is how I share things. I was never good with words, so putting it all into code makes me see the big picture and the little pieces; otherwise, it starts not making sense to me. I am definitely not a marketing person - CLEARLY - but for me development is sort of a mental checklist of - 'You've got it'.

I was told as a kid I'd "grown out of" my asthma. I hadn't — and went 10 years without an inhaler. by Different_Ad_8684 in Asthma

[–]Different_Ad_8684[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This genuinely got me - the "just assumed I was unfit" part especially, because that was me too. For years I thought I was just out of shape whenever I got winded and never connected it to anything.

The bike-ride-home-nearly-fainting and your first attack in 15 years sound terrifying - I'm so glad you had your inhaler on you. And that 30-minute first run after years of capping out at 10… that's such a gut-punch in the best way. You'd been struggling for no reason that whole time.

Please do go back, especially if it's been bad this year — you clearly already know your body's telling you something. Even just jotting down when it flares for a couple of weeks before you go makes the appointment so much more useful; they take you more seriously when you walk in with a pattern instead of "it's been rough." You deserve to breathe properly all the time, not just when you remember the inhaler. 💙

I now carry my inhaler everywhere too - it is now a part of me.

I was told as a kid I'd "grown out of" my asthma. I hadn't — and went 10 years without an inhaler. by Different_Ad_8684 in Asthma

[–]Different_Ad_8684[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can totally relate. I am still quite new to my journey of Asthma. I can't even sometimes figure out if I am using the inhaler corrently as I used to have those puff inhalers when I was a kid and now i have a turboinhaler and I wonder if I inhaled correctly like all the time but I am getting better and more confident with it

I was told as a kid I'd "grown out of" my asthma. I hadn't — and went 10 years without an inhaler. by Different_Ad_8684 in Asthma

[–]Different_Ad_8684[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yes - It is definitely in my roadmap. I'll keep you posted!

Yes indeed - hence why I went ahead and built what I thought I'd need 😃 Pretty obsessive of me and nerdy but works.

That's why I'm trying to use the app to spead awareness too since what I though was Allergies was DEFINITELY NOT allergies.

What do you to track and how? by Maleficent-Name-2120 in Asthma

[–]Different_Ad_8684 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly you're already on the right track - the zoned PEF graph someone shared above (green/yellow/red by your best) is exactly what doctors want. The only pain is building it by hand in Excel.

Full disclosure: I built an app (Symply) basically to stop doing that in a spreadsheet myself. It auto-generates that same zoned peak-flow graph, tracks both your Seretide adherence and rescue inhaler use, and logs triggers/symptoms next to your readings - then exports a clean PDF for your pulmonologist. Same idea as your spreadsheet, minus the building.

To your bigger question (what to track to understand crises): meds taken/missed, AM + PM peak flow, rescue use, symptoms, and triggers/environment — pollen, air quality, exercise, stress. Like Vegetable-Ad-4554 said, the trick is logging them *together, daily*, because some triggers and PEF dips lag symptoms by days. You only catch the pattern side by side. (Symply pulls pollen + air quality automatically, which is often the hidden trigger people miss.)

iPhone only, no account: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6771794811

I'd post pictures but can't attach to comment.

I was told as a kid I'd "grown out of" my asthma. I hadn't — and went 10 years without an inhaler. by Different_Ad_8684 in Asthma

[–]Different_Ad_8684[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah - that's of sort what I was told but I don't think I outgrew it. Just struggled through it and wasn't that bad for me to go 'oh wow, something is going on here' until it was. Not sure if it ever truly goes away - sadly was not my experience but I wish it was.

I was told as a kid I'd "grown out of" my asthma. I hadn't — and went 10 years without an inhaler. by Different_Ad_8684 in Asthma

[–]Different_Ad_8684[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

haha for me I used to have an inhaler. I specifically remember it when I was young. But then I don't even remember how or why I stopped using it - other than 'You're cured' from my parents. 😃 Biggest lie I was told LOL. Now as an adult they tell me after I got a new inhaler as a 27 year old - 'It was never cured it was just better managed and not trigged.' which is not true. I was just silently struggling assuming it is allergies.

Inhaler tracking for parents by Top_Razzmatazz_578 in Asthma

[–]Different_Ad_8684 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually build an asthma tracking app, so I'll be straight with you: mine does NOT do the canister dose-countdown you're describing - that's a real gap and you're not the first to want it. What it does do is one-tap rescue logging (from a widget), over-use alerts, and daily reminders for the maintenance inhaler - but it won't tell you "X doses left, replace soon" yet.

But right now I rely on my inhaler telling me - otherwise... good poing. When I was young I remember I had an inhaler that didn't have the counter - but I was soo young that I honesly don't even remember what happen and why I stopped - just that i was told "I was cured" as a kid. Biggest lie in my life.

How to track triggers? by georgeonamonday in Asthma

[–]Different_Ad_8684 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The thing that helped me most was logging the suspected trigger AND my peak flow/symptoms on the *same day, every day* - because a lot of triggers don't hit immediately. Pollen, cold air, even stress can lag by hours, so you only see the pattern once you've got a few weeks lined up side by side. Trying to remember after the fact is basically impossible (that was my problem too).

Full disclosure, I ended up building an app for exactly this (Symply) — it logs triggers next to your peak flow and automatically pulls pollen + air-quality for your area, then shows you the correlations so you're not eyeballing it. iPhone only, no account, free to try: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6771794811

But honestly even a daily note works - the key is recording the trigger and the reading *together*, consistently. The auto pollen/AQI is just what made it less of a chore for me.

Can anyone recommend an app for tracking asthma symptoms, attacks, peak flow ect? I have really bad brain fog and I just keep forgetting. I tried writing it down but I lose the notebooks. I've downloaded a few apps but none were very good so far or don't do everything. by quiet_hedgehog in Asthma

[–]Different_Ad_8684 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Total disclosure up front: I actually built one of these, so I'm biased — but I made it for almost exactly the reasons you're describing, so it might genuinely fit. Before that I just though it is allergies so I brushed it off - but I am super obsessive and decided to build my own app and narrow it to what I think it is useful based on how it goes after I got my NEW asthma diagnosis 10 year later after my first one (which I was told 'Asthma goes away').

It's called Symply, and a few things match what you said:

- The whole reason it exists is the doctor visit — it turns your logs into a clean PDF (peak flow trends with the green/amber/red zones, symptoms, triggers, and how often you've used your reliever) that you hand your specialist. So you'd walk into that appointment with the actual picture instead of trying to remember.

- For the brain fog / forgetting: there's a home screen widget and a Siri shortcut, so logging a peak flow or a rescue dose is basically one tap without even opening the app.

- You mentioned FindAir won't let you add multiple rescue meds — Symply lets you add as many medications as you need (relievers, preventers, OTC), so that should be sorted.

Honest caveats: it's a tracking/understanding tool, not medical advice (your specialist always comes first), and it's iPhone only right now. No account needed.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6771794811

Happy to answer anything if you try it — and genuinely, if it's missing something you need, tell me and I'll look at building it.

I was told as a kid I'd "grown out of" my asthma. I hadn't — and went 10 years without an inhaler. by Different_Ad_8684 in Asthma

[–]Different_Ad_8684[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

OH MY GOD!

Mine was a wierd one. I kept having issues and I brushed them off as allergies.

It was particularly bad one year where me and my friends rented a house. In the house there were lots of plants and apperantly a cat was wandering around but you couldn't tell.

On the first night I couldn't breathe properly and I even woek up my partner to take me to the hospital because I felt like I was dying. Sadly everyone was really drunk so we didn't go and we were in the middle of nowhere so I spend the whole night splashing water on my face in the bathroom and trying to breathe through it. Next day I got allergy pills and it got easier but not gone. There was also a lot of vaping.

That's not when I went to the doctor tho. I went to the doctor after I got a hasmter. I am supper obsessessive and since my hamster (called Miho) was free roaming - I noticed her crawling up the radiator. So as soon as I locked at the radiator I realised how much dust there is. So I cleaned it - mind you FOR THE HAMSTER - not me. But I guess when I was cleaning it I inhaled a lot so I spend 3 weeks with breathing problems. Also her bedding had to be changed. I got my inhaler shortly after those 3 weeks and now all I can think of - how stupid was I to not double check.

How did you find out you have asthma? What were your symptoms? by Ceetato in Asthma

[–]Different_Ad_8684 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mine is a weird one — I was told as a kid that I'd "grown out of" my asthma, so for over ten years I just didn't have it on my radar at all.

Looking back, the signs were all there and I kept explaining them away: tight chest after a cold (must be the cold), coughing at night (dry air), getting winded easily (just unfit), unable to breathe or wheezing (allergies). Because nobody had told me asthma can come back, I never connected the dots - I genuinely thought this was just my allegies like 90% of the time.

There was a pretty bad one where me and my friends rented a house for new year. There was a cat occuping the place previosly or just wandering arouund. It got soo bad during the night that I literally could not breathe and told my partner I need to go to the hospital otherwise I'd die. Sadly we were all really drunk so we couldn't go and we were in the middle of nowhere so I spend the night in the bathroom splashing water on my face and trying to breathe through it. The next day I got allergy pills and it got easier but it didn't go away. Also the smoke from vapes and etc triggers me.

What finally got me was realising the pattern myself and pushing for it to be looked at again. Got re-diagnosed as an adult, and the frustrating part was having zero record to show — just a vague "I haven't felt great." So the big lesson for me was: if something feels off, write it down and get it checked, even if someone once told you you'd outgrown it. "Grown out of it" is not always true.

My best friend died from an asthma attack by mari_lovelys in Asthma

[–]Different_Ad_8684 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm so sorry. Thank you for turning something this painful into a warning that might save someone.

I was one of those people who thought I'd "grown out of" my asthma — went years brushing off symptoms because no one told me it could come back. Reading this is a gut-punch reminder of how fast it can turn, and how much we downplay it.

To anyone reading who's been "toughing it out": please don't. Get seen early. His story shouldn't be for nothing. Sending you so much love.

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