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It depends how bad your asthma gets. What advice are hospitals giving now for visits is it emergency only? Or is it relaxed slightly.
If you do go just take as much precautions as you can. I would call hospital and get them to asses the risks.Good luck
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As a fellow asthmatic who has been in and out of GPS and hospital recently for other reasons and was similarly worried about having an exacerbation,I would definitely go. My experience is that hospitals and surgeries are pretty empty and staff all wearing PPE. I know you know this but your asthma could exacerbate quickly and I’d definitely want a controlled hospital visit over a trip to A and E. It is scary though and horrible having to make your own risk assessment.
Rich_G
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@ExTra
What would you do re my upcoming hospital appt?
My asthma is not well under control and it hasn't been for a while. GP was going to refer me to hospital end of Feb but I said no because of COVID19 looming then... we have been trying to manage it over the phone, that hasn't worked obviously. She then referred me about 4 weeks ago think and hoping that my hospital appt wouldn't happen till much later in the year, but it is actually in 2 weeks time. I am pretty sure it's going to go ahead unless I rearrange, but my guts are telling me I shouldn't go to a respiratory clinic full of people with bad lungs (myself included) when the current global crisis is respiratory related.
Should I rearrange?
I have manged to go on relatively normal day to day...