My favourite definition of tree was from a tree surgeon who said "whatever someone will pay me to cut bits off".

cunt levels off the charts

To make a point:

It is not universal to asthma (so you can have asthma and have this not be a symptom) and it is not exclusive to asthma (it happens with other chronic illnesses and sometimes to people who are not chronically ill during reconditioning or athletes during very hard exercise) but if you taste blood in your mouth every time you go for a run or hop on an elliptical, that's something you should probably get checked out.

Also, asthma is a chronic illness with effects far beyond getting a little wheezy. If you've ever been treated for asthma and are not being treated for asthma now because you "grew out of" asthma attacks or they're "just seasonal" or "only when I exercise" you should know that an asthmatic person has a different inflammatory response to allergens and has immune reactions that are not the same as a non-asthmatic person, which can put you at risk for more severe or extended responses to viral or bacterial infections. If you've been treated for asthma in the past and are not being treated for it now because you don't have asthma attacks anymore, that's something that is worthwhile to check in with your doctor about to see if you should be getting some kind of ongoing treatment aside from the five year old rescue inhaler in your medicine cabinet.

An itchy stingy feeling in your lungs when you're breathing heavily or having trouble breathing is also not something that happens to most people, that's the inflammation from the asthma in your bronchial tubes. "I don't have *difficulty* breathing or feel short of breath when I'm exercising or during allergy season, but I do feel like I've got mosquito bites down my throat that I can't scratch that only go away when I've had a little time to settle."

Cool, even if you're not audibly wheezing or struggling to breathe that's a symptom please go to the doctor.

To make another point:

A daily corticosteriod inhaler and/or a daily asthma-specific allergy medication can drastically improve the symptoms you're living with that you may not realize are symptoms and can dramatically reduce your chances of experiencing a life-threatening asthma attack.

I take montelukast as a daily pill and if I miss a week or so of doses I can *really* feel the symptoms that I forgot I used to live with every day. Montelukast is an allergy med that prevents/reduces the asthmatic inflammatory response. My sister takes a daily corticosteriod inhaler that reduces the inflammation she lives with. I didn't respond well to the inhaler, she can't take the montelukast, but both of us have daily treatments that make us safer and make our lives easier.

I have more severe asthma than my sister and have been treated for it longer (I've been treated for asthma daily since I was seven years old) whereas she was diagnosed later with "seasonal" asthma in high school that she stopped treating in college. When she had a bad asthma attack in her early twenties and needed her first breathing treatment, she was put on a daily preventative treatment and hasn't had an asthma attack in the last fifteen years. In fact, she gave one of her unused rescue inhalers to our dad when he had a bad case of bronchitis and it helped him so much that he ended up talking to his doctor, getting tested, and getting diagnosed with asthma in his sixties; since he's been on montelukast he hasn't had the same spring allergies he used to and hasn't had the annual two or three cases of bronchitis that used to be standard for him.

We are three different people with three very different types of asthma, but all of us have experienced an improved quality of life, reduced days of illness, and are much safer from the dangers of an acute attack since our asthma is actively managed instead of "controlled" by avoiding triggers, reducing activity, or breathing through minor asthma attacks unmedicated.