Re: Switching from Advair to Asmanex

[Guest guest]

Advair has two medications in it and the Asmanex is just the one

medication. So you lost a long term broncholdilator when you

switched. You may want to ask you doctor if you could get a single

long acting bronchodilator. Serevent is on and it is the one in

Advair. Another is Foridill.

The makers of Xopenex are coming out with one soon. It is under FDA

evaluation.

>

> Has anyone had any problems switching from Advair to Asmanex? I was

having too many

> side effects from the low dose Advair so my doctor switched me to

Asmanex. (lost my

> voice for 3 months and started getting weird skin infections)

>

> I don't think the Asmanex is keeping my asthma in check as well as

the Advair but, like I

> said, the side effects from the Advair were wreaking havoc on my

life . About a week after I

> stopped taking the Advair I had my voice back 100% and the

infections stopped occuring.

> While I haven't had any of this with the Asmanexz, I do seem to be

taking my rescue

> inhaler a bit more than I was with the Advair.

>

> Any comments or suggestions?

>

> marcy

>

> Also, if you are taking Asmanex, have you found it difficult to get

from your pharmacy? I've

> had to wait up to a week for my pharmacy to get some in.

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Matt,

Thanks for the reply. I'm wondering if my doctor didn't recommend Serevent

because of

my Advair side effects. I really don't like Asmanex too much but cannot live

with the Advair

issues. The skin infections were popping up every time I was bitten by a

mosquito or ant.

One more question: what do you konw about the discontinuing of Albuterol? My

pharmacy

said it was replaced with ProAir HFA (which is much more expensive, too). I know

Albuterol

was a generic rescue inhaler.

Thanks for all of your advice!

marcy in Houston

> >

> > Has anyone had any problems switching from Advair to Asmanex? I was

> having too many

> > side effects from the low dose Advair so my doctor switched me to

> Asmanex. (lost my

> > voice for 3 months and started getting weird skin infections)

> >

> > I don't think the Asmanex is keeping my asthma in check as well as

> the Advair but, like I

> > said, the side effects from the Advair were wreaking havoc on my

> life . About a week after I

> > stopped taking the Advair I had my voice back 100% and the

> infections stopped occuring.

> > While I haven't had any of this with the Asmanexz, I do seem to be

> taking my rescue

> > inhaler a bit more than I was with the Advair.

> >

> > Any comments or suggestions?

> >

> > marcy

> >

> > Also, if you are taking Asmanex, have you found it difficult to get

> from your pharmacy? I've

> > had to wait up to a week for my pharmacy to get some in.

> >

>