Wixela Inhub and Pain: What Users Say

• Do...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• June 11, 2023

For Asthma, Maintenance "I, like many of you, had been switched to this horrible drug for the same reason: insurance not covering Advair. I have been sick for a month and had two trips to the emergency room and two trips to urgent care. It took me a bit to figure out what the heck was going on, I did not make the connection as soon as I should have. My vision was blurred and declined, I had unexplained bruises, numbness in my legs and arms, fuzziness and dizziness, horrible indigestion, shortness of breath, and horrible pain in my upper back. One of the trips to the ER found a mass on my lung, not cancer, unsure at this point where it came from. Since I have stopped using it, in only two days I feel human again. I really thought I was dying, it was the scariest thing I have ever been through."

• Bre...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• June 11, 2022

For Asthma, Maintenance "After years of Advair Discus 500/50 (for COPD) paying as much as $1500 a month but having breathing greatly helped, I went for the generic as advertised the “exact same ingredients,” FDA approved…!! From the first inhaled puff to now, after less than two weeks, my inability to breathe, along with extreme chest pressure, has made me a wreck, sleepless and in pain. Getting any score at all is CRIMINAL…1.9 out of 10? Who set that up? Now I need to go back to my primary doctor to say I can do without anything but need to breathe. Need the Advair Diskus 500/50. Desperately and apologize for asking for the generic…. Cannot count on sleeping as I wake up repeatedly breathless needing oxygen…with an elephant on my chest!"

• Joh...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• December 6, 2021

For Asthma, Maintenance "VA is my health provider, and I have lung fibrosis, COPD, and emphysema. I was on Symbicort for many years. Then I placed a refill on the prescription, and it was Wixela. Had no idea VA discontinued Symbicort. Well, I used it one time and had the worst experience with it. My throat and tongue became very dry for 2 days. My chest became very tight and painful. A few days later, I began coughing nonstop, my ribs got sore. Now all I use is my rescue inhaler."

• Bam...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• January 4, 2023

For Asthma, Maintenance "Developed terrible gastritis within two days of using Wixela. Pain and bleeding was so bad I almost called 911. Have used Advair for years and never had any issues."