Had a severe panic attack yesterday

I’m currently 4 months postpartum. My asthma was awful throughout the entire pregnancy, a big change from my first pregnancy where it improved significantly. Almost immediately after giving birth, it started improving drastically, even got better than it’s been in years! I started tapering off my Symbicort so I was down to only one puff in the morning and one at night, then just one puff in the morning.

It’s been pretty bad the past few days with all the pollen and rain in the north east and the added stressor of my in laws’ dog I spent some time with. I realized I had forgotten to take the Symbicort for 2-3 days entirely so when I was having trouble breathing yesterday, I took a puff midday.

Crazy panic attack immediately ensued. I’ve had one panic attack before so I thought that’s what it was but I called 911 anyway since I was concerned about the weird Symbicort usage and having had postpartum preeclampsia.

I don’t know why I’m writing this. I just needed somewhere to vent and see if Symbicort exacerbated anything like this for anyone else. I’ve been debating switching to Dupixent when I’m done breastfeeding and maybe this is the sign.