Chest Cramping from allergies? Asthma?

[crystalfresh]

I have both allergy and asthma.

Sometimes I get chest cramping that makes it hard to inhale or exhale. It is a true fight to breathe. I don't think my air way it self is restricted because when I struggle I can still hit high number on my peak meter. Once the tightening is severe my peak number falls fast and has dropped unmedicated below 50%. Yet I am not weezing like when I am exposed to smoke or irritants. Asthma with out weezing?

BOTH antihistamine and my albuterol inhaler will reverses cramping well. Is this asthma triggered by allergy or just allergy? What might be happening.

My regular asthma does not reverse with antihistamine only my inhaler. So I didn't know if the above problem was asthma related?

[KenRhodes]

Well I hope your feeling better.  First off Asthma is just a fancy word for the books.  All in all at the end of the day it is just a complex allergy compiled of alot of trigger agents that may or may not be harmfull in your case.  Your best off having an allergy test performed on you which is compiled of 55+ little scratches that a nurse will perform on your arm of choice, each site on your arm that has a reaction to the allergen will notify the doctor of the allergies you have and to what severity you have it.  (For instance, I am allegic to Roach droppings? How does that happen?)  I have lived with asthma all my life and I am 30 now.  There are a vast selection of treatments available to you from your doctor and even some over the counter stuff like Zyrtec that works for me since I am highly allergice to ordinary household contaminants including some in my yard.  I hope this was helpfull to you.

Ken

[crystalfresh]

I found my answer from another post in the past day.Yes it can be asthma and sometimes not. I found it depended how it was triggered. Generally if only my chest and nothing else it is asthma or asthma triggered by an allergen. In some other cases like when from a systemic reaction it is hard to tell if it is asthma or not, but in cases like that sometimes it takes more than an inhaler to reverse it so I'd not call that asthma.

But the specific question was about just tightness with out weezing. So the answer was yes, asthma.