My wife has has two episodes in the last 12-14 months...but, in the last 5 days has had three separate incidents wherein she was having trouble/difficulty catching her breath. She is basically a healthy woman (age is 40) and has had little trouble with anything else. But, on Sunday after a little bit of activity, she needed a few minutes to "catch her breath". On Tuesday, at work, she came into a situation where she was "overpowered" by an air freshener which led to her actually hyperventilating and having an anxiety/panic attack (per the ambulance driver, in his estimation...we went to the Hospital). On today, she again felt the feeling like she did on Tuesday start to set in and used the inhaler that she got as a result of Tuesday's event. Is is possible that she is a "late bloomer" and asthma is taking over or is this something else?? (Oh, the initial event 14 months ago was thought to be an allergic reaction to something...though, we never found out what).