I used to have it very badly when I was younger. Then I started swimming and that made a huge difference to it.

I still get an occasional mild attack, usual after I've had a cold, but I did have one serious one a couple of years ago so it's not entirely out of the question it could come back, even if you seem to have grown out of it.

The best thing to do is keep an inhaler for when you can feel it coming on

I used to get it when I was younger and it was always worst during the hayfever season.

However, I stopped smoking 11 years ago, and it has barely troubled me since.

Ray is asthmatic but he hasn't *touch wood* had a bad attack, he gets a little wheezy once in a long while and he has an inhaler as a preventive measure. Joel is slightly asthmatic, he tends to cough if he gets over excited or boisterous, but he's not bad enough to need medication.

I suffer from Asthma mainly cause when i was very young i coughed so much that one side of my chest caved in

When i get colds, i have to take my inhalers twice a day so then i don't end up with it for months and having loads of time off school.

It also effects me when i'm doing P.E. at school cause after running round the track i end up wheezing REALLY badly even with taking my inhalers.

But i don't think it is as bad as it was previously - it's just another thing to live with (and it could be a lot worse)

I have asthma. Have done since I was about 8. It's never gone away, but recently it seems to have improved quite a bit. Bizarrely, it started to improve when I moved to London, when I expected it to get worse cos of the smog 'n' stuff!

I don't suffer from hayfever (which my doctor told me was unusual for an asthma sufferer) so that doesn't affect it at all. But colds always make it worse.

I've had asthma since about the age of seven, but it started to improve about ten years ago and now I very rarely get it - only during the hayfever season and when the weather is very humid and close, or when I've got a cold. So yesterday at work I had the aftermath of a cold along with the hot sticky rainy weather and an inhaler that had run out, and nearly coughed myself inside out Hurray for cough sweets and spare inhaler at home!

I had it when I was very small. then it came back when I was about 10. Then it went when I was 13 and I've been fine since. However on my holiday there were these blankets in the holiday villas which made me sneeze and my throat itch. Then I coughed and wheezed too. I'm fine again now though and I've never had an actual astma attack.

As a child I had a recurring cough/chest problem for as long as I can remember. I was finally diagnosed as asthmatic when I was about 12, and started using an inhaler. By the time I was 14 or 15 it fizzled out and I didn't need to use an inhaler at all.
About 6 years ago though, it was back with a vengeance and I now have to keep my ventolin inhaler with me all the time and use a becotide inhaler twice a day (when I remember ).