Re: How's your breathing

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I sent an email on breathng and it ended up in my spam folder. If you are interested it was in answer to Madeline and 's email about natural control and you did not get this email, check your spam folder.

Subject: Re: - natural controlTo: asthma Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 8:34 PM

Hi . Before asthma I had that same attitude. In fact, in any other area, I try every natural treatment I can find including just give it time. However, as a moderate/severe asthmatic with other lung issues, I take my breathing rather seriously. If it means that I am on a medicine (aggressive or not) to get some form of control, so be it. I have not found any dependency on my drugs. A controller med should be taken every day (even if you have no symptoms). Having no symptoms is the goal. A controller med is a good option. You are taking one medicine to control the asthma. Not multiple doses of a lesser med that only gives temporary relief. I HIGHLY recommend a controller med.

That being said, controlling the triggers for asthma is key in the control of asthma. If you have not been environmental allergy tested you should do so. You should also log other triggers such as perfumes, lotions, cleaners, smoke, etc. The first line of defense is avoidvance if possible. You can avoid pet danders, walk away at the first sniff of a perfume or lotion, avoid smoke, wear a dust mask while cleaning, use natural cleaners. Some things such as pollens are impossible to avoid or limit. A natural treatment for pollen allergies is local honey. By ingesting local honey (made within 15 miles of your house) you build antibiodies to the pollens. I think you are already doing nasal rinses. That is very valuable.

Some people have deficiencies in potassium, magnesium or vitamin D and B. You should not take these supplements unless you have been tested and know that you are low. However, if you are low in key minerals and/or vitamins, supplements will help. There is also a supplement called Availnex that I mentioned some time ago. You can look it up in the archives post number 38398.

Other triggers can be food allergies (sulfites are a common unknown allergy) which can be avoided. We have mentioned GERD. There are natural remedies for GERD as long as it is moderate. However, you have to know if you reflux is acidic or nonacidic. The wrong remedy will make it worse instead of better. The only way to learn that is a 24 hour or 48 hour ph test.

Exercise is a terrific method of control. I have found the Arthritis foundation aqua therapy classes extremely helpful as well as pulmonary rehab. Yoga is also scientifically proven to be beneficial for asthmatics as it teaches breathing control and emotional (ie panic and anxiety) control methods.

My best advice is to work with your doc to identify your triggers and any underlying medical conditions such as GERD and sleep apnea. Then examine each area one by one to see which areas can effectively be treated naturally. You will probably find that a combination of natural treatments and pharmaceuticals will be your best bet.

Madeline

To: asthma Sent: Mon, November 8, 2010 7:09:54 PMSubject: Re: Night Time Asthma Questions

Thanks Madeline:I have been offered the long acting controller many times by numerous doctors but I'm honestly afraid of becoming dependent on them. I'm desperately trying to find some natural means to get that control. I see med's as a way to keep graduating to more and more potent drugs. It's very scary for me when I think of the out-come.I just ordered some of Dr. Schultze "Lung" formula. I seen a testimonial on there of a lady that started to take this 3 times a day and was able to give up the inhaler. Wouldn't that be heaven. Here's the website: https://www.herbdoc.com/index.php?option=com_oscommerce & osMod=product_infoNew & Itemid=42 & products_id=33 & osCsid=If anyone is using natural substances to help them out, please do share.Thanks -

To: asthma Sent: Sun, November 7, 2010 9:30:16 PMSubject: Re: Night Time Asthma Questions

Welcome ! Ann and Willow both had good suggestions regarding sleeping position and GERD. You should experiment with your sleeping position a bit and see if it helps any. GERD does tend to go hand in hand with asthma and is a huge culprit for night time flares. Talk to your doc about GERD, but you could also try and over the counter med like Prilosec and see if it helps. Another thing that jumped out at me is that you don't seem to be on a long acting controller. The controllers are usually a combined LABA and corticosteroid. The two most common are Advair and Symbicort, but there are a host of others. The albuterol is great, but is a short acting med. It will only be effective for a few hours. Then you wake up and have to do it again. If you are having to use it 3 or 4 times a night, your asthma is not controlled. It sounds to me that you really really need to talk to your

doctor about a long acting bronchodialator. Breathe easy.

Madeline

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Hi:I'm really grateful for this sage advice. I'm in the midst of trying to decide if coping with the difficulty is possibly not worse than the eventual side effects of the drugs. Just yesterday I read that a drug my doctor wanted me to take Singular causes suicidal tendencies (Yikes)! - I will try a little longer to go with some natural remedies, but know that sometime I will need to make a decision as to which asthma controller med has the least side effects. I'm not using albuterol at least three times at night, but it only lasts for a few hours. I seen a D.O. yesterday and he said in those dosages, albuterol is safe for the long haul, but like you say, it does not allow for longer term relief. I'm so confused at this time! If any of you can recommend which asthma med has the least side effects, I'd appreciate knowing.Best -

Subject: Re: How's your breathingTo: asthma Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 12:39 PM

I sent an email on breathng and it ended up in my spam folder. If you are interested it was in answer to Madeline and 's email about natural control and you did not get this email, check your spam folder.

Subject: Re: - natural control

Hi . Before asthma I had that same attitude. In fact, in any other area, I try every natural treatment I can find including just give it time. However, as a moderate/severe asthmatic with other lung

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Here, the guidelines say that using salbutamol more than three times a week (unless preventatively, before sport etc) means your asthma is not controlledJennTha can tek t'lass outta Yorkshire...! Don't brand me, don't classify me, don't tell me what to wear. I'll be who I want to be, and I'm proud to be me.From: Atwood

Subject: Re: How's your breathingTo: asthma Date: Wednesday, 10 November, 2010, 15:38

Hi:I'm really grateful for this sage advice. I'm in the midst of trying to decide if coping with the difficulty is possibly not worse than the eventual side effects of the drugs. Just yesterday I read that a drug my doctor wanted me to take Singular causes suicidal tendencies (Yikes)! - I will try a little longer to go with some natural remedies, but know that sometime I will need to make a decision as to which asthma controller med has the least side effects. I'm not using albuterol at least three times at night, but it only lasts for a few hours. I seen a D.O. yesterday and he said in those dosages, albuterol is safe for the long haul, but like you say, it does not allow for longer term relief. I'm so confused at this time! If any of you can recommend which asthma med has the least side effects, I'd appreciate knowing.Best -

Subject: Re: How's your breathingTo: asthma Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 12:39 PM

I sent an email on breathng and it ended up in my spam folder. If you are interested it was in answer to Madeline and 's email about natural control and you did not get this email, check your spam folder.

Subject: Re: - natural control

Hi . Before asthma I had that same attitude. In fact, in any other area, I try every natural treatment I can find including just give it time. However, as a moderate/severe asthmatic with other lung

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, I can only say that with me it was trial and error. My GP has been very supportive of me because she knows that I am not an alarmest. She also knows that I will not take anything that I thinks will be bad for me. I do a lot of investigating of a new medicine and only start one medicine at a time. I h

ave so many allergies. Took shots for 21/2 years which helped a lot. I was only tested for airborne allergies. I developed a lot of food allergies and have to be careful what I eat. Good Luck.Lou

Subject: Re: How's your breathingTo: asthma Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 8:38 AM

Hi:I'm really grateful for this sage advice. I'm in the midst of trying to decide if coping with the difficulty is possibly not worse than the eventual side effects of the drugs. Just yesterday I read that a drug my doctor wanted me to take Singular causes suicidal tendencies (Yikes)! - I will try a little longer to go with some natural remedies, but know that sometime I will need to make a decision as to which asthma controller med has the least side effects. I'm not using albuterol at least three times at night, but it only lasts for a few hours. I seen a D.O. yesterday and he said in those dosages, albuterol is safe for the long haul, but like you say, it does not allow for longer term relief. I'm so confused at this time! If any of you can recommend which asthma med has the least side effects, I'd appreciate knowing.Best -

Subject: Re: How's your breathingTo: asthma Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 12:39 PM

I sent an email on breathng and it ended up in my spam folder. If you are interested it was in answer to Madeline and 's email about natural control and you did not get this email, check your spam folder.

Subject: Re: - natural control

Hi . Before asthma I had that same attitude. In fact, in any other area, I try every natural treatment I can find including just give it time. However, as a moderate/severe asthmatic with other lung

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I have been taking Singulair for a few years now, and I don't have suicidal tendencies, I think that is if you already have a predisposition to suicidal tendencies in most cases?

To: asthma Sent: Wed, November 10, 2010 2:01:00 PMSubject: Re: How's your breathing

, I can only say that with me it was trial and error. My GP has been very supportive of me because she knows that I am not an alarmest. She also knows that I will not take anything that I thinks will be bad for me. I do a lot of investigating of a new medicine and only start one medicine at a time. I h

ave so many allergies. Took shots for 21/2 years which helped a lot. I was only tested for airborne allergies. I developed a lot of food allergies and have to be careful what I eat. Good Luck.Lou

Subject: Re: How's your breathingTo: asthma Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 8:38 AM

Hi:I'm really grateful for this sage advice. I'm in the midst of trying to decide if coping with the difficulty is possibly not worse than the eventual side effects of the drugs. Just yesterday I read that a drug my doctor wanted me to take Singular causes suicidal tendencies (Yikes)! - I will try a little longer to go with some natural remedies, but know that sometime I will need to make a decision as to which asthma controller med has the least side effects. I'm not using albuterol at least three times at night, but it only lasts for a few hours. I seen a D.O. yesterday and he said in those dosages, albuterol is safe for the long haul, but like you say, it does not allow for longer term relief. I'm so confused at this time! If any of you can recommend which asthma med has the least side effects, I'd appreciate knowing.Best -

Subject: Re: How's your breathingTo: asthma Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 12:39 PM

I sent an email on breathng and it ended up in my spam folder. If you are interested it was in answer to Madeline and 's email about natural control and you did not get this email, check your spam folder.

Subject: Re: - natural control

Hi . Before asthma I had that same attitude. In fact, in any other area, I try every natural treatment I can find including just give it time. However, as a moderate/severe asthmatic with other lung

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I was using my xopenex inhaler all of the time, and my pulmo put me on symbicort, and spiriva, and now I hardly ever touch my rescue inhaler.

To: asthma Sent: Wed, November 10, 2010 1:24:23 PMSubject: Re: How's your breathing

Here, the guidelines say that using salbutamol more than three times a week (unless preventatively, before sport etc) means your asthma is not controlled

Jenn

Tha can tek t'lass outta Yorkshire...!

Don't brand me, don't classify me, don't tell me what to wear. I'll be who I want to be, and I'm proud to be me.

Subject: Re: How's your breathingTo: asthma Date: Wednesday, 10 November, 2010, 15:38

Hi:I'm really grateful for this sage advice. I'm in the midst of trying to decide if coping with the difficulty is possibly not worse than the eventual side effects of the drugs. Just yesterday I read that a drug my doctor wanted me to take Singular causes suicidal tendencies (Yikes)! - I will try a little longer to go with some natural remedies, but know that sometime I will need to make a decision as to which asthma controller med has the least side effects. I'm not using albuterol at least three times at night, but it only lasts for a few hours. I seen a D.O. yesterday and he said in those dosages, albuterol is safe for the long haul, but like you say, it does not allow for longer term relief. I'm so confused at this time! If any of you can recommend which asthma med has the least side effects, I'd appreciate knowing.Best -

Subject: Re: How's your breathingTo: asthma Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 12:39 PM

I sent an email on breathng and it ended up in my spam folder. If you are interested it was in answer to Madeline and 's email about natural control and you did not get this email, check your spam folder.

Subject: Re: - natural control

Hi . Before asthma I had that same attitude. In fact, in any other area, I try every natural treatment I can find including just give it time. However, as a moderate/severe asthmatic with other lung

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I have no side effects from the Singular. I end up with depression from the

steroids but I decided breathing was important and nothing else was helping so I

would deal with the depression.

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if coping with the difficulty is possibly not worse than the eventual side

effects of the drugs. Just yesterday I read that a drug my doctor wanted me to

take Singular causes suicidal tendencies (Yikes)! - I will try a little longer

to go with some natural remedies, but know that sometime I will need to make a

decision as to which asthma controller med has the least side effects. I'm not

using albuterol  at least three times at night, but it only lasts for a few

hours. I seen a D.O. yesterday and he said in those dosages, albuterol is safe

for the long haul, but like you say, it does not allow for longer term relief.

I'm so confused at this time! If any of you can recommend which asthma med has

the least side effects, I'd appreciate knowing.

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Keep in mind not everyone will experience suicidal tendencies. It just means that there was some sort of strong enough relationship to list it. Ive taken Singulair for 4-5 yrs now and I have little if any side effects from it. The one problem I did have, was that it interfered with my sleep when I took it at night (which is the recommended time to take it during asthma treatment) but, my doc said to try taking it in the morning instead. No more problems with sleep now.

A good way to see which side effects are most common is to look deep into the information where eventually theres a table that says what the prevalence of each side effect is per so many people.

Here is some info I got on the prevalence of suicide attempts w/ Singulair...Theres a really good write up, but I only copied the part about the clinical trials...and we all know studies can be skewed sometimes. A double blind is one of the better procedures for a study...

http://www.squidoo.com/singulair-side-effects

Singulair Side Effects: What Clinical Trials Indicate? the rate of suicide in patients taking singulair

In an interesting cumulative analysis recently provided to the FDA by Merck's of a randomized, double-blind, clinical trials that compared singulair with other active agents to treat asthma (which included over 3,900 adults and children who were treated with singulair and over 3,400 who were treated with other asthma therapies), there was 1 patient who attempted suicide who received singulair, and there were 3 patients who attempted suicide who received other asthma therapies (including inhaled corticosteroids and long-acting beta-agonists). These studies were howewer not designed to compare the rate of suicide in patients taking singulair with the rate of suicide in patients taking these other asthma agents.

Re: - natural control

Hi . Before asthma I had that same attitude. In fact, in any other area, I try every natural treatment I can find including just give it time. However, as a moderate/severe asthmatic with other lung