Intro...about to go on xolair therapy

[Guest guest]

Hi,

I just found your group and I am waiting to start xolair therapy

(hopefully this Thursday)if insurance approves it. I have been an

Asthma/Allergy sufferer almost all my life (since age 1), with my

most recent test results coming up with positive/high IgE levels for

almost all environmental,indoor and food allergens, this situation is

pretty scary (even for a lifelong sufferer like me)! I am now 39

years old, and have run out of other options. My allergic asthma and

seasonal allergies are making my life intolerable (this year seems to

be the worst one yet). The person who recommended the Xolair therapy

to me is my new doc, a pulmonologist. Up to this point, my regular

asthma maintenance included taking prednisone at least twice a year

(sometimes getting hospitalized for bad asthma flare ups), plus using

two maintenance inhalers and way, way too much of the Proventil

rescue inhaler. Even the nebulizer that I began to use late last year

made no significant difference in my overall symptoms. I still end

up waking up either breathless or wheezing badly and if its a high

pollen day, I will be wheezing within minutes of going outside. So

after reading alot about this med, I am looking forward to breathing

easier and not having to worry abt the steroid effects anymore! In

the very least it is bringing hope where there was little else

before.

Cari

[Guest guest]

--- In , " Carole " <chakracari65@y...>

wrote:

> Hi,

> I just found your group and I am waiting to start xolair therapy

> (hopefully this Thursday)if insurance approves it. I have been an

> Asthma/Allergy sufferer almost all my life (since age 1), with my

> most recent test results coming up with positive/high IgE levels

for

> almost all environmental,indoor and food allergens, this situation

is

> pretty scary (even for a lifelong sufferer like me)! I am now 39

> years old, and have run out of other options. My allergic asthma

and

> seasonal allergies are making my life intolerable (this year seems

to

> be the worst one yet). The person who recommended the Xolair

therapy

> to me is my new doc, a pulmonologist. Up to this point, my regular

> asthma maintenance included taking prednisone at least twice a year

> (sometimes getting hospitalized for bad asthma flare ups), plus

using

> two maintenance inhalers and way, way too much of the Proventil

> rescue inhaler. Even the nebulizer that I began to use late last

year

> made no significant difference in my overall symptoms. I still end

> up waking up either breathless or wheezing badly and if its a high

> pollen day, I will be wheezing within minutes of going outside. So

> after reading alot about this med, I am looking forward to

breathing

> easier and not having to worry abt the steroid effects anymore! In

> the very least it is bringing hope where there was little else

> before.

>

> Cari

Cari,

Welcome We are all in the same situation with our asthma. For

most of us, Xolair has been a Godsend. Best wishes to you and best of

hopes for Xolair to work for you too.

Doug

Group founder