My mother, 49 years old, has a chronic cough, throat clearing, tickling and breathlessness for few years, sometimes she wakes up at night coughing and out of breath, an inhaler helps ( uses Foradil Aerolizer 12mcg, which helps for a long time and Ventolin, for a shorter time) and when she wakes up in the morning she has a stuffy/ runny nose, sneezes sometimes. It looks like the cough started after a viral infection. In the beginning cough occurred in evenings and she felt breathless, now there's that throat tickling and clearing, which triggers the cough. Then she went to a pulmonologist, they did a spirometry, it did not show asthma ( she's allergic to animals, dust, bed mites, some foods). After the spirometry cough got better. Later she was diagnosed with hypertension, taken medicine from it and again started coughing, her medicine was changed to Tenaxum, it didn't stop the cough. When she went to cardiologist, he said that there is everything fine with her heart, yet her cholesterol is 7. In summer she did an X-ray, doctors said that there were small remains of bronchitis. Also she has GERD, we though that it could be from it, because it looks like the cough worsen after meals, when sitting or laying down, but no reflux medicine helped. Though when she went on strict diet her cough got better for few weeks. In December she did a second x-ray of her lungs, it showed nothing, they were completely fine and again went to pulmonologist for asthma test, FVC was 84% and no asthma again. Pulmonologist said that it could be from GERD or allergies. Now for a week she can't go to sleep without inhaler Foradil, because she wakes up in the middle of the night breathless. Could this be a developing asthma?