Yeah, I've been dealing with it too. I was diagnosed at 40. They call it allergic asthma because external substances trigger it. Before I was diagnosed I ended up in the ER a couple of times.
I have the same meds as you -- I used just albuterol until they came out with Advair a couple of years ago.
Asthma is scary, especially when I forgot to take along the inhaler. I suffocate. I hate it. In fact I hate it so much that I looked for ways to get rid of it, and have had some pretty good success. My husband has had similar success -- he's had asthma since childhood. In the past couple of years I've found ways to minimize it -- I'm completely off the Advair and hardly ever use the inhaler. I've done this with diet, believe it or not.