Eve54ive been on it for years and i think its time for a change it doesnt seem to work very well.
I have chronic asthma, copd and am on advair 500/50 does it help?
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- 17 Jul 2011 by Eve54
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- asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
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Mary63200917 Jul 2011
I think each individual is different , & will react differently to each med. I also have asthma brought on by allergies. One of my allergies is to 2 milk proteins. I had been using Albuterol, & seemed it was getting worse not better. Mentioned it to my doctor & he tried to give me Advair, but luckily I had read a magazine article the day before about it (an ad) ,& it said if you have milk protein allergies do not use this product because it can make the breathing worse. Showed this to the doc (who is my allergist too) so he hands me Spiriva to try. I get home, read the leaflet that comes with it & it also says if you have milk protein allergies do not use this product as it can result in death! Now you would think an allergy, asthma & internist would know this, but he did not. Guess I'm not answering your question directly, but it could be you need to be on something completely different.
LiverLips18 Jul 2011
Hi Eve54! Welcome to Drugs.com
My husband has COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder) & he uses Symbicort 200 turbuhaler 200UG/ 6UG Each container has 120 doses. Your respirologist or physician will determine your individual dosage.
All the best to you & your health, Eve! from Wendy :)
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I am very interested in your comment about those allergic to milk proteins having a hard time with Advair and Spiriva. I have been using Advair for one year and my breathing is getting worse (shortness of breath, in particular). An MD just prescribed Spiriva for me, but I have suspected for some time that I might have at least a mild allergy to dairy. Now I am confused if I should try the Spiriva or not. It is annoying to me that food allergy testing isn't as commonly offered as the testing of other toxins, like dust, pollen, etc. I suspect a lot of us have some sort of intolerance or allergy to a food but are unaware of it. Any thoughts on the Spiriva and milk protein allergy would be helpful. Thanks!
Melanie, if your inhalers seem to make your breathing worse instead of better thn you can certainly have milk protein alleriges! Make an issue out of it to your doctor & get tested for food allergies. I had my done with the first with the scratch test & found out about the allergy to casinate a milk protein, & then was sent to the University Clinic because I just couldn't breathe right. They did a blood tes & scratch tes on allergies, but said I didn't have any allergies! Duh! I am allergic to so many things it's unbelieveable. Later the next day I had an appointment at tha University clinic with a liver doctor & he said oh, I see you are allergic to 2 milk proteins, casinate & whey. Why the other clinic would say I didn't have any is beyond me, but they did do breathing test that day too, & I couldn't breathe right (asthma). Only got about 25%.
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The nurse practioner that was doing those test & giving me the results apparently did not know what she was doing. She said I probably had copd or something. NO I have asthma from my allergies! You really need allergy testing for everything. Asthma can be brought on by allergies. I only have breathing problem in the Fall with the leaves etc... I finally got my doc to give me theopolline, & it helped me tremendously, & now Fall is over & the leaves are gone I can once again breathe without medication. My allergies are year round because of some of them being dust mites. I was once told by an allergy doctor I need to live in a bubble! Please get tested, & read everything you can about the inhalers. They all say do not use if allergic to milk proteins! Makes breathing worse & can cause death. Good luck... Mary
Thank you so much, Mary! Your response was so helpful! And it came in almost simultaneously with an email from my twin sister. She ALSO said I should get tested for allergies as she suspects that I have asthma brought on by allergies, because she does, too! Yikes! I have no idea how the first clinic could have missed all of our allergies!! That is so good that you persisted until you found out what was going on! AND were well informed!
I have to figure out how to do the allergy testing, as I have no health insurance. The doctor who prescribed the Spiriva did so at a free clinic that only sees patients one day per month. But now at least I know what I have to do! Thanks again!!
You are most welcome. I would call the doc & find out about it. More PCP re doing it because it's now a blood test they have to send out instead the older scratch test they use.I know they are kind of expensive, but I believe they may be more accurate too. They should be able to tell you the cost of the blood test. Or maybe call a local lab & ask them. I'm not sure, but mine were done at a University Clicic setting & had to be there to get it done. What surprised me is not only my PCP an Internist , but an allergy doctor too & he didn't know about the milk proteins affecting all of these inhalers! That's pretty upsetting. they listen to the reps & take their what they are saying very seriously. It's kind of likd the tramadol deal.
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The drug reps pused it o docs saying it's not addictive because it's not a narcoti, but they failed to add was once it enter a persons system it becomes narcotic like in nature, & becomes addicting. I take theopolline when my gets bad in the Fall., That ususlly the only time I have lots of trouble breathing. I think it's the leaves falling & blowing around. Beautify=ul site, but evrytime I am outof doors, I can't literally breathe. My doc said it's an old drug, but I told him It works for me so he wrote a script for it. Helped me whilde I was on it for 2 months, but I won't take it year around. Suppose to be watching my blood levels of it, & he never mentioneddoing that. My pharmatist told me this & I clled the doc bac & they told me I had labs due jan. 24th anyway. Tried to explain, but wouldn't listen. In older people it's very important to watch serum levels as you can overdoes your system. Oh well. At least I know what I'm doing... Mary