Re: Starting Xolair next week

[Guest guest]

Welcome!

You will find that most of us have had GREAT success with Xolair.

I suggest that you go and read past posts and our stories

I was on Prednisone most of my life and have had side effects that

really affected my heath Now, I only have only had to have it a few

times since I started xolair in 2003.

Remember, Xolair is not a fast acting medication. Only a small few of

us got relief within a few shots, others like me took up to a year or

more.

Once again, WELCOME

Doug

Group founder

[Guest guest]

Good luck Bisnono. Hopefully the Xolair does the trick. Do give it

a time to work although for me the initial benfits came after just a

couple weeks.

I'm looking forward to Spring with mixed emotions. History says I'll

get clobbered with pollen allergies but last year, after six months

on Xolair at the time, I went about life outdoors as normal and only

got clobbered once by the maple or juniper pollens. This year, those

pollens are in the air already and I'm not reacting yet and really

doubt that I will.

I never could be a prisoner in my house during spring. I react all

winter to stale inside air and can't wait to get outside and breath

fresh air, even if it's loaded with pollen. It's the lesser of the

evils. For me, fresh cool spring air blowing in from the Northwest

is absolutely euphoric but I have to be outside to enjoy it.

>

> Hi everyone,

>

> I'm new to the group. My asthma is caused by significant

allergies, some of which I've had

> since I was a child, but I wasn't diagnosed with asthma until about

6 years ago. Since

> then, as my allergies have worsened, so has the asthma. From the

end of February until

> the end of May, I'm a virtual prisoner in my house on the weekends

when " normal " people

> are outside enjoying the great spring weather in Atlanta. I've

tried allergy shots twice and

> during the process of working up to maintenance dosage, had

anaphylaxis requiring

> epinephrine and benedryl but thankfully not hospitalization. The

first time I was on shots I

> took them over about 3 1/2 years--the second time I tried them I

was 2 months into

> treatment when I reacted. After that, I didn't want to risk

another reaction. I have tried

> pretty much every medication there is for allergies--some days

between my allergies and

> asthma I would take 7 different medications twice a day.

>

> My allergist tested my IgE level and it came back at 410, so I'm

scheduled to start my

> Xolair injections next week. For the first time in my life, I feel

hopeful that I might have

> the chance to wake up feeling good and breathing easy, instead of

exhausted, congested

> and drugged. Maybe I can even spend the day outdoors in my garden

in the middle of

> April next year once the Xolair takes effect instead of being stuck

inside. I've been on a

> round of prednisone every spring for the past 4 years and just

finished another round two

> weeks ago before the season even really had gotten going here. I'm

out of options, so if

> this doesn't work I don't know will happen.

>

> Thanks for listening...

>

[Guest guest]

Dear Doug:

I have been having trouble getting my xolair group emails to go

through. I forget to check the " text " and for some reason in the

email section, even though I change to plain text and " save " it, it

keeps reverting to rich text. I decided to post through the group

setting. I had written a post about my visit Thursday to the doctor

whose clinic gives me my xolair.

My question is has anyone done so well they have had their dose

reduced?

I think I remember that several have had theirs increased. I will

turn 70 in May and because I have done really well in the year and a

half I have been on xolair (no infections, no asthma events, no

prednisone, and no antibiotics) he suggested reducing my shots to

once every six weeks--not reducing the dosage, just the length of

time between shots. He is also suggesting to my allergist that my

advair be reduced to 50/250 which won't bother me a bit--less steroid

and less co-pay!

Have a great day.....

Adah

>

> Welcome!

>

> You will find that most of us have had GREAT success with Xolair.

> I suggest that you go and read past posts and our stories

>

> I was on Prednisone most of my life and have had side effects that

> really affected my heath Now, I only have only had to have it a few

> times since I started xolair in 2003.

>

> Remember, Xolair is not a fast acting medication. Only a small few

of

> us got relief within a few shots, others like me took up to a year

or

> more.

>

> Once again, WELCOME

>

> Doug

> Group founder

>

[Guest guest]

--- In , " asthmatic50 " <asthmatic50@...>

wrote:

>

> Dear Doug:

>

> I have been having trouble getting my xolair group emails to go

> through. I forget to check the " text " and for some reason in the

> email section, even though I change to plain text and " save " it, it

> keeps reverting to rich text. I decided to post through the group

> setting. I had written a post about my visit Thursday to the doctor

> whose clinic gives me my xolair.

>

> My question is has anyone done so well they have had their dose

> reduced?

>

>

> I think I remember that several have had theirs increased. I will

> turn 70 in May and because I have done really well in the year and a

> half I have been on xolair (no infections, no asthma events, no

> prednisone, and no antibiotics) he suggested reducing my shots to

> once every six weeks--not reducing the dosage, just the length of

> time between shots. He is also suggesting to my allergist that my

> advair be reduced to 50/250 which won't bother me a bit--less steroid

> and less co-pay!

>

> Have a great day.....

> Adah

>

>

Adah,

First of all, go to your personal group settings and make sure the are

set correctly. Secondly, if you are using the " Rich Text Beta " to send

posts this could possibly be the problem. I have never used it and

have never had any probs.

Doug