I have had a quite a few episodes of late and my friend Mike from spin class put me straight. He’s a former anesthesiologist and he told me that the pulmicort I have been taking contains a steroid and  I told him I  had been taking two blasts of it each morning with the bronchial asthma I am now saddled with. He told me that as a dilator it would automatically make my HR jump and that I should let exercise raise the “beat” naturally and afterward take my inhaler. Thanks Mike again.