What asthma can involve
Asthma is a long-term condition affecting the airways, and it rarely stays the same from week to week. Cold air, a cold, exercise, dust or a change in the weather can each make a difference, and the effect is often delayed enough that the trigger and the bad night feel unconnected.
Annual reviews ask how often you have needed a reliever and how many nights you were woken. Those are precisely the numbers that blur. Writing them down as they happen means the answer comes from a record rather than an estimate, and the tiredness that follows a broken night has somewhere to be noted too.
Symptoms checklist
Asthma symptoms checklist to take to your GP
Below are some of the symptoms associated with Asthma. You can print the Asthma checklist and weekly diary and fill it in by hand.
See what applies to you, note how often it happens, and take it to your appointment, so the conversation starts further along. It describes your experience. It does not say what is causing anything: having many of these does not mean you have Asthma, and having few does not mean you do not. Only a clinician can work that out with you.
- Breathlessness
- Wheeze
- Cough
- Chest tightness
- Fatigue
- Something else I want to mention
Print the Asthma checklist and weekly diary Download as PDF
The list comes from the NHS and charity sources linked further down this page, and from what people living with asthma tell us they keep an eye on. It is a starting point, not a test.
How a day can feel
If your days sound anything like this, taluvu was made with you in mind.
- “I didn't notice how often I was reaching for it.”
- “A cold turns into three bad weeks.”
- “I woke up coughing again and just got on with it.”
- “Cold air catches me every time.”
- “I say it's fine because it usually is.”
These are the kinds of things taluvu invites you to say in your own words, never a checklist of what anyone “should” have.
