ASA triad

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Mike wrote: << What do they call it at Scripps? I've heard it called ASA triad

....

My own experience is that the asthma more readily responds to drugs like

singulair or zyflo, but the polyps seem a bit more entrenched.

I wonder if anyone has tried combining the two leukotriene inhibitors.... >>

At Scripps they call it, I think, the ASA triad, but ASA just stands for

aspirin, and to me calling it a triad just sounds like, well, it's a

coincidence.

I agree about the polyps being more entrenched. But there is some evidence in

Scripp's follow-up studies that the aspirin desensitization helps with this,

too. Apparently the MEAN time to requiring surgery has been changed from three

years to nine years! That's a big difference for me, because every three years

seems like the kind of " life sentence " that I would not be too happy with. So

far since developing polyps I have had surgery every three years

Mike, since you're in NJ, have you had the surgery before? Where did you have

it done and who was your doctor? I'm curious because I had two of my surgeries

done in Englewood, NJ.

The last time I had my surgery I was desensitized for the second time at Scripps

a month later. They told me they have found that the desensitization helps

better with regrowth of polyps if you have it done within a few weeks after

surgery. I am uncertain whether this is true for me because my CT scan recently

of the sinuses did not necessarily show polyps but just a lot of sinusitis.

I haven't tried the leukotriene antagonists yet, I've been scared because of

that rare lung disease that can developed. Anyone have any information about

this? I also didn't know that it could possibly help my polyps, and if it can

as I've read from you guys, that may change my mind about trying these drugs.

My asthma is controllable with Advair (yay Advair! I love it!) but the sinuses

are a huge life-changing problem for me.

Lori