Curious About Xolair...

[Guest guest]

I'm in a unique situation actually.

I've had allergic asthma since I was 7 and it was not well controlled

at all. My mom had 3 cats (that I later found I was allergic to) and I

was constantly using my rescue inhaler to just barely make it through

the day.

I moved in with my dad and my asthma disappeared because I was away

from the cats.

I never had asthma trouble really until about 2 years ago.

We got a puppy -- I was told I wasn't allergic to dogs and over the

next year we added 3 more (all under 10 lbs).

After the 3rd pup we added, I started having issues and went on Advair

250, Singular, and Claritin.

Basically I feel my lung function is decent although I have tons of

pleghm daily in my chest.

I'm going to a pulmonologist to get a lung function test to see if I

should go forward with allergy shots.

I know many of you will probably say to ditch the dogs, but these guys

are my children and I love them so much -- I'm overwhelmed by the

thought of losing them and I'll do anything in my power to mask, hide,

control my allergic asthma to keep them in my life.

I guess I'm just wondering what the benefit of xolair is over

traditional allergy shots..

Thanks for listening