Refusal to live on medication with Asthma

Cullen developed asthma as a child and lived with the condition into early adulthood. His asthma tended to be either nocturnal (night-time), or exercise induced. However, Cullen was sometimes prone to experiencing asthmatic symptoms during the day, seemingly induced by nothing at all.

Cullen’s asthma led to multiple hospitalisations. He recalls how helpless an asthma attack made him feel; the tightness in his chest and the helplessness of not being able to do something like breathing, that is normally taken for granted. There is just about nothing more terrifying than struggling to breathe, fearing the next breath you take could be your last.

Cullen was resigned to the idea that the rest of his life would involve medication — a daily inhalation of corticosteroids, morning and night. Additionally, for further peace of mind, Cullen would need to carry around with him – at all times — a fast-acting, relieving spray, like Ventolin. Even then, he would still have a lingering fear that an imminent asthma attack could strike at any minute. Any time he participated in sport or any physical exertion, his concerns would become justifiably heightened. He needed to have his medication with him at all times.

As somebody who, from an early age, developed a passion for health and fitness, the idea of being dependent on medication for the rest of his life, to control his asthma, was horrifying. Cullen was the type of person who would avoid Panadol, if he had a headache, because he didn’t want to consume synthetic substances. He felt synthetic substances were at odds with his desire to live as natural a life as possible and the side effects of his medications only served to remind him of this.  

To be completely drug-free was Cullen’s goal. Fed up with his doctors’ inability to find an answer to help him, Cullen started researching asthma and treatment possibilities. While he thought it was probably not possible to find a cure, Cullen started looking for an alternate management strategy. Something within his core believed he wasn’t destined to lead a life with a breathing disorder and at the mercy of pharmaceuticals.

After reading and learning about all of the side effects of the asthma medications he had been taking, Cullen was more determined than ever to find an alternative and natural approach.

In the beginning, Cullen was looking for ways to better handle his asthma. He thought he could find healthier, more natural ways to control his asthma than what he was being told in the doctor’s clinic. Cullen was determined to minimise asthma’s impact on his life and didn’t think his quest would lead him to a cure, but it did.

Cullen’s research led him to discoveries by the world’s leading respiratory doctors. He learned about the science of breathing and a natural technique that his doctors had never told him about and probably never knew existed. The method Cullen learned about has been proven to help asthmatics in clinical studies but was not being shared with asthmatics.

This technique, Cullen learned, was fundamentally different. It focused on the root cause of asthma, not on medications, or more accurately, not just on the symptoms the way conventional asthma treatment had done. This was a treatment that engaged natural physiological processes that would not only free him from the medications and side effects, but also align with his philisophical beliefs.

After learning, implementing and mastering this technique, Cullen was able to finally break his dependence on medication to control his asthma. There was nothing more satisfying for him than to escape from the constraints his asthma medications had placed on him. Finally, Cullen felt truly free and philosophically, he felt closer to the divine for answering his prayers.

Cullen found his experience spiritually awakening on so many levels, particularly in regards to health and healing. He hopes to help others in a similar position, ending their reliance on drugs to manage their asthma, and free them from the associated side effects. 

Anybody who is living with asthma can either dramatically improve or completely reverse their asthmatic symptoms in a way that equates to a cure. They only need to be willing. Still, many people will choose not to accept that there are natural alternatives to the methods that are being practiced within the mainstream health system.

The good news is, if you are willing to accept there is a better way, you will find it.