Actually, something similar happened to me. I had a really bad cough in the form of "croupe". Not sure if anyone has heard of it, but it caused me to passout and during this time my brain was deprived of oxygen and I had to remain hospitalized for a couple of days.

I know what you're talking about. I had croupe once.. that's one of the times I had to go to the emergency room. I'm so glad you're able to grow out of serious asthma attacks. I probably don't have the best endurance but at least I can play basketball/run without feeling like I'm going to die.

Yeah I had some sort of 'youthful asthsma' when I was a kid, and didn't even grow out of it until I got into my teens ...they used to call it 'athletic endorsed asthma' which I always thought was a nice way of calling people fat.

i had pretty bad asthma when i was very young, from 3-8 i couldnt sleep without a respirator machine or whatever the hell it's called, i'm so glad i grew out of it when i did seeing as i got picked on alot in school for breathing like ive just ran a marathon everytime i walked up a set of stairs.