Guest guest Posted June 20, 2008 Report Share Posted June 20, 2008 I tried reducing my Advair from 500 to 250 and couldn't do it. The next time I go to the Doc's I think I might ask him to switch me back to just Flovent and see how I do. Serevent is the med getting the bad press so eliminating that would be a step in the right direction. From: instdesgn1 <instdesgn1@...> Subject: [ ] Re:This shocked me Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2008, 5:13 PM For me Advair is a " must " if I am to breathe and sleep throughout the night. Otherwise I wake up in a state of panic feeling like I'm drowning. The emergency inhaler before going to bed does not last through the night. Singular made me feel weird, in fact, in the news recently there were some comments made about it having psychiatric effects in some patients. I also had long term frequent colds on Singular and it made me feel anxious. Wish there was something else that could keep me breathing well but nothing out there long term w/o even worse side effects. > > This is a very scary article as it misses several reasons a drug might be > prescribed! People need to talk to their doctors and do a risk management > analysis. Drugs are not without dangers, but there are many times the > benefit is worth the risk, especially when there really is no alternative. > > The alternatives offered for many of the drugs were more dangerous to me or > my family member who are on the drugs. For example, I have a child on Nexium > that didn't know what heartburn was and couldn't/didn' t voice it, but had > erosions in his esophagus and stomach due to excess acid production. Zantac > or other OTC acid reducers did not touch it and he would have been at much > higher risk of esophageal cancer without the Nexium. Now we are looking into > possible surgery to get him off the Nexium. But for the general population, > the surgery is an extreme. For myself and possibly my son, it is a necessary > step. > > Interesting that they did not mention the pneumonia vaccine to help prevent > pneumonia, but did push the flu vaccine. The flu vaccine would possibly kill > me due to my severe egg allergy while the pneumonia vaccine has helped me so > much. I used to struggle with illness triggered asthma 2-4 months out of the > year, and then 8-10 months have allergic asthma issues. Thanks to both the > pneumonia vaccine and Xolair I have so much better asthma control. > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 I stopped my singular after hearing about the psychiatric stuff. I was feeling depressed and confused a lot. cleared up within a week of stopping. ----- Original Message ---- From: instdesgn1 <instdesgn1@...> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 6:13:27 PM Subject: [ ] Re:This shocked me For me Advair is a " must " if I am to breathe and sleep throughout the night. Otherwise I wake up in a state of panic feeling like I'm drowning. The emergency inhaler before going to bed does not last through the night. Singular made me feel weird, in fact, in the news recently there were some comments made about it having psychiatric effects in some patients. I also had long term frequent colds on Singular and it made me feel anxious. Wish there was something else that could keep me breathing well but nothing out there long term w/o even worse side effects. > > This is a very scary article as it misses several reasons a drug might be > prescribed! People need to talk to their doctors and do a risk management > analysis. Drugs are not without dangers, but there are many times the > benefit is worth the risk, especially when there really is no alternative. > > The alternatives offered for many of the drugs were more dangerous to me or > my family member who are on the drugs. For example, I have a child on Nexium > that didn't know what heartburn was and couldn't/didn' t voice it, but had > erosions in his esophagus and stomach due to excess acid production. Zantac > or other OTC acid reducers did not touch it and he would have been at much > higher risk of esophageal cancer without the Nexium. Now we are looking into > possible surgery to get him off the Nexium. But for the general population, > the surgery is an extreme. For myself and possibly my son, it is a necessary > step. > > Interesting that they did not mention the pneumonia vaccine to help prevent > pneumonia, but did push the flu vaccine. The flu vaccine would possibly kill > me due to my severe egg allergy while the pneumonia vaccine has helped me so > much. I used to struggle with illness triggered asthma 2-4 months out of the > year, and then 8-10 months have allergic asthma issues. Thanks to both the > pneumonia vaccine and Xolair I have so much better asthma control. > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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