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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
Rich_G-
It’s bad but it hasn’t stopped me from carrying on with my day to day, nothing a few puffs of inhaler plus tablets can’t get me back to normal, however temporary it is.
I think they have started non emergency out patient appts in the last couple of weeks.
I wanted to rearrange another out patient appt (for my knee) I was supposed to have mid March, and they were quite arsey about it, I managed to use my asthma as an excuse...
If I had to go, I’d do the usual mask and gloves, but I really don’t see how someone can check out my asthma without being pretty close to me and have me remove my mask AND I’d have to do loads of those stupid breathe in and out and in and out stuff, plus cough on request.
The whole thing is really rather ironic if you think about it. 🤣
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...