Asaammar al-Likum. Last week I had experienced some pretty grueling asthma attacks. I was born,

not born, I had asthma as a kid, but for about the last 10 to 15 years I haven't actually felt the effects of asthma.

Although I was kind of sometimes in and out of hospital as a kid with it, I kind of thought I was cured.

And it's relevant for this episode if you hang on with me for a second. What ended up happening is about 10 days ago I had an asthma attack. I recognized it pretty much straight away because I remember the feeling as a kid. It kind of feels like you're breathing through a straw and you're really struggling to get breath.

Stupidly I didn't do anything about it, but then I did have another asthma attack a few days later and then I had a third.

So about three in the space of like a week.

When I had my second, Kaya, I may Allah bless him, who you guys know is my co-hosthost here took me to the hospital and they put me on

nebulizers and medicines and ECG and I had a chest x-ray just before and basically I was on like two or three different I was basically taking nebulizer every two hours

I was on loads of different medications but things didn't really seem to be getting better and at that point I started looking for someone who

specializes in asthma which I later found out to be pulmonology which is kind

of the study the medicine specific to kind of breathing and lungs and all that kind of stuff.

And I came across this expert out here called Dr Falsy Katranji.

And so I thought I'm going to book a station with this guy, a book to consultation with him and honestly it was the biggest relief.

I finally felt like I was speaking to someone who understood my problem.

What I was going through, he gave me a more advanced inhaler and some

tablets to take and it just felt like I was speaking, he ran tests on me, but it felt like

I was speaking to someone who understood what I was going through.

He drew diagrams for me and helped me understand what's going on in my airways.

And I ended up asking him to come on the podcast.

He very kindly agreed. And this is a really powerful episode for anyone who is, you know, has got asthma or breathing issues,

but also he's an expert in sleep.

So sleeping disorders, psychology as well, sleep apnea. So if you are

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