I am 33 and have lived in DC my whole life I was sick a few times this winter and had a lasting cough afte each illness. They gave me antibiotics and Asmanex after 3 weeks of coughing in January. It went away and came back after a couple of weeks - bad, bad night coughing - I thought I was sick and when I went back they said it was asthma. They gave me albuterol, advair and allegra. It was all working and all symptoms went away, I slowed up on the meds and then it came back in full force. Today I went to a new doc (#4) who says its bad - I am allergic to everything and gave me singulair, asmanex, clarinex D and foradil. we are off to Florida tomorrow night and if I feel better I may not come home! How can one out of the blue develop serious allergies and asthma? Any insights on these meds? I am normally the type who won't take advil so this is all a bit much for me. And the steroid thing really scares me - I swear the advair made me gain weight even though the docs say no. And the side effects look awful.

Please help!

Thanks
Victoria