CONTROLLING SEVERE ASTHMA
Understanding your asthma
Learning is the first step towards taking control.
Could your asthma be "uncontrolled"?
What Does Uncontrolled Asthma Look Like?
Some asthma can’t be easily treated, even when medications are being taken properly. This is uncontrolled asthma. Those with uncontrolled asthma often have excessive type 2 inflammation in their airways.
If any of these common signs sound familiar, your asthma may be uncontrolled:
Coughing, wheezing, or shortness of breath more than twice a week
Symptoms that wake you up at night
Trouble doing everyday things like exercising
Using a quick-relief inhaler more than twice a week
Is my uncontrolled asthma severe?
Symptoms of severe asthma can be disruptive, exhausting, and even life-threatening. If you have severe asthma, there’s more of a chance that your asthma doesn’t meet the definition of “controlled,” and that means that there may still be more you can do. If you’re not sure about where your asthma stands, fill out the assessment below.
What’s standing in the way of treatment?
80%
of people think their asthma is well controlled...
...even if they’ve had a recent asthma attack, hospital visit, or needed steroids.
70%
of those on quick-relief meds were still poorly controlled.
And 23% needed emergency care in the past year.
48%
of people with asthma have never seen a specialist.
Only 22% go to see one regularly.
86%
of people with asthma experienced stigma...
...indicating stigma is present in over four out of five respondents.
19%
of people hadn’t talked to a doctor....
...about their symptoms at all.
