Sounds like me except that I didn't have what I would call a mild case, and I've received an actual diagnosis of asthma and have been placed on medication (bh controls symptoms well). The doctor wasn't too surprised- says he has quite a few patients who are young and fit before covid who've come in with asthma-like symptoms after suffering from covid. Common denominator seems to be hypoxia during covid, which appears to have done the damage. Obviously he can't know if it's chronic, but he didn't seem too optimistic. For now I'm doing followups every 3 months to see if it's better/worse.
My question- not that it matters much now (and the doc wasn't helpful) is:
a) is it as a result of not seeking treatment (an impossibility unless I wanted to end up on a respirator in March- we know where those people mostly ended up) and oxegyn or a bronchial dilator would have helped?
Or
b) is the damage as a result of the actual virus and my body dueling in which case there's very little to nothing currently on the market that could have treated me to prevent damage.
b) seems much more likely to me. There's a theory that when asthma first appears in adulthood, it may be related to some respiratory infection (among other possible causes). So may be related to having a viral infection, not necessarily unique to coronavirus. Here's one review article from 2013:
Adult-onset asthma: is it really different?
https://err.ersjournals.com/content/22/127/44The occurrence of acute lower respiratory infections is strongly
associated with the risk of new adult-onset asthma [72]. The
link between respiratory infections and the development of
asthma in adulthood has been proposed for many decades [73],
although it is still unclear how respiratory infections might
induce asthma. Age-related altered antigen presentation and
decreased specific antibody responses may lead to subtle
immune deficiencies that may allow respiratory infections to
provoke injury to the airways. This, in turn, may set up a
vicious cycle of an ongoing inflammatory process leading to
asthma [74]. Another explanation is that respiratory pathogens
may act as triggers of asthma onset to other factors, such as
environmental exposures.