Severe asthma

Health advice > Severe asthma 

Living with severe asthma can be extremely challenging sometimes, especially if you’re in the process of getting a diagnosis or you’re still working with your healthcare team to find the right medicines for you.

All the ideas and insights from experts and people with severe asthma in this section are designed to help make life as easy as it can be – for you and for your family and friends…

Mental health and severe asthma

• Anxiety
• Challenge anxious thoughts
• Depression
• Self care
• More information and help for anxiety and depression

Sex and relationships when you have severe asthma

• How severe asthma can affect your sex life
• Dealing with exhaustion
• Feeling a burden
• Low self-esteem
• Fear about intimacy
• Getting help with your sex life
• If you’re single 

Travelling when you have severe asthma

• Going on holiday when you have severe asthma
• Being prepared for emergencies
• Dealing with mobility issues
• Travelling with asthma equipment

Work and money when you have severe asthma

• Your rights at work
• Disability and Severe Asthma
• In work benefits

Benefits and severe asthma

• Why may be entitled to benefits if you have severe asthma
• Some of the rules around benefits
• Benefits you might be entitled to

Staying active when you have severe asthma

• Why take exercise when you have severe asthma?
• Can people with severe asthma exercise?
• Choosing the right activity for you
• Getting started
• Sticking with your exercise routine
• What people with severe asthma say about exercise

Healthy eating and severe asthma

• Healthy eating and weight gain when you have severe asthma
• Ask for support
• Make small changes
• Keep a diary
• Prep your meals
• Don’t let steroid hunger win

Social life and severe asthma

• Social life when you have severe asthma
• Manage your symptoms
• Build your confidence
• Plan ahead before going out
• Explain severe asthma to your friends and family
• Turn your home into a social hub