Having asthma symptoms? Here's five tips to help you decide what to do

My daughter ( 21 yr old) has tightness in her chest that can not be explained by her peak flow meter test.  The nurse told me that the peak flow meter ONLY measures the large airways and my daughters problem probably is the smaller airways. Also, I am thinking couldn't it be more of an inflammation issue than a dialation issue.  Also , back at the first part of Dec. her pulmonary Dr.  said that he is does not know what to say when patients ask about this situation.  We are very frustrated.  Then my daughter after having the flu shot weeks and weeks later got the flu but I have nursed her through worse.  I think the shot helped.  She gets the shot every year.  An asthmatic from our experience always has "clean up " to do after any infection but especially the flu.  Well, I took her in to this same Dr. and she was seen by the Dr. assisstant.  She did not get prescribed anything-----no antibiotic for the secondary infection-----no pregnisone.  A couple days later after my daughter was worse I called in and told them that i would be getting an antibiotic with or without them that day.  They called one in.  A week after this ( last night) my daughter drove herself ( 5 min away ) to the ER because she was starting to have an asthma attack.  There she got the much needed pregnisone which she should have already been prescribed at least a week ( ish ) ago.  Do you have any advise.  The Dr. office was all about wanting to help this morning but then again I did talk to the nicest one in there.  I am going to leave that practice with my daughter but can't during this critical time.   Any advise???? By the way her asthma is usually well controlled with the lowest dose of advair 100/50  twice a day and rarely has to call on her albuterol.  From experience though if she is going to have problems it is during the winter.  We live in Charleston SC and the weather is back and forth in the winter from unseasonably warm to unseasonably ( for Charleston ) cold. Also, I am dying to know if the Jupiter study is promising for the use of statins for asthma?

Number is a good one. I can't tell you how many time Ive wrestled with that one. 

I've had asthma since I was four and I'm 29 now. The articles you have written are the best I've ever read on asthma. I was in the ER today and last Sunday with asthma. Thank you thank you thank you for posting. You just don't know how many people you've helped. I'm going to pass this along to my friends and family that are suffering from asthma