asthma

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If you have frequent asthma you can ask your doctor about Advair. It

is expensive though.

I have also been on Singular for several years ( I think they

finally got past off label use for asthma)

As well as carry an inhaler.

I had bad asthma when I was l3. We had a really wet and moldy

summer that year. After that I have been on anihistimines every year

for allergies . For most of my adult life have only had to use my

inhaler 2-8 times a year. Though in cold weather I sometimes use it

before exercise to prevent exercise induced asthma. Do this if I have

a cold or have been feeling like my allergies are bothering me a lot.

Something to keep in mind not all asthmatics wheeze. Some get a bit

of a coughing spell that attacks for a while after exposure to

irritants , smoke, airborne perfumes and air fresheners, exercise,

coming in from out doors when it is cold. Coming in from outdoors

toward evening during peak pollen season. At bedtime

Now another interesting thing that isn't asthma but can feel like

it. About 3 years ago I thought my asthma was getting out of control.

I was using my inhaler every day and sometimes 2 times a day. This

was after a two-three year period where I didn't need the inhaler at

all(when this started up my inhaler was over two years out of date

That dec I had a surgery and my ekg before surgery indicated that

a heart attack couldn't be ruled out. One of the things I did was go

see my mother in laws cardiologist. It wasn't my heart being blocked

(several months later found out about the bartters kidney problem and

that low levels of magnesium and potassium was causing the weird ekg)

When doctor came in to tell me my stress test results she commented

about being able to hear me breath from across the room. And also

puzzled that I passed her stress test with a level six when most of

her heart patients couldn't get past level 2 or 3. And that we had to

finally stop the test only because of my asthma starting to flair up.

During the conversation on my ekg I brought up that we had found a

leak in the exhaust system in my van at work, right under the drivers

seat and that my pcp didn't run a test to see if I had a problem

because of it. The cardilogist said that the carbon monoxide

poisoning could have cause the big flair up of asthma symptoms. She

put me on advair for a while and it really cleared up the bronchchial

tubes. I don't use it anymore. It was too expensive even using only

once a day instead of twice a day . And for me anything like that can

give me oral thrush (yeast) infection even following the directions

of washing out the mouth after use with water.

I am back now to taking my singular pill every day not needing my

inhaler at all. I also take a second antihistime and during really

bad allergy season take 12 hour sudafed and sometimes benadryl on top

of the others.

Debbie and Ian McKinley (13 yrs BMD)no litters from

Kansas http://home.hit.net/~dimck/ Brighteye Bushy Tail Gretchen CD,CGC

11/11/92 - 10/07/03. Swiss Stars Harvest Moon CD,CGC, DD 6/l8/93-

5/9/04 Swiss Star's Maximum Risk 09/15/02 Sammy (rescue/rehome)

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