New asthma inhalers

Change your doctor. Better still go to a different practice altogether. Or go to a private GP, as you're paying.

I was placed on a steroid inhaler - trelegy. I had been on spiriva. Ever since I’d started the trelegy I had chest pain, shortness of breath, and my CT scans got worse & worse. I stopped taking it and my PFTs are normal now.

Interesting, R2. Out of curiosity, on what grounds were you switched to the trelegy?

I will switch doctors and possibly practise, R1. This same woman once tried to prescribe me poorly-tested anti-depressants with horrible sides. I’ve been too naïve and idealistic about mainstream medicine up to now, I suppose.

OP Is ring your doc up and discuss it tomorrow. If you're not happy then move to a different surgery.

[quote]I will switch doctors and possibly practise, [R1]. This same woman once tried to prescribe me poorly-tested anti-depressants with horrible sides. I’ve been too naïve and idealistic about mainstream medicine up to now, I suppose.

Sounds it, gurl. No "suppose" about it.

[quote] ring your doc up and discuss it tomorrow

You think you can phone your doc on the NHS? Think again.

I spoke to mine yesterday. Of course you can. R6

And if you can't R6 then you need to change to a surgery where you can!

Anyone ever actually tried taking Forstair before? It’s in this evil malevolently-pink inhaler, and I don’t even want to touch it.

I miss my purple powder dispenser, with its round delivery system. It was like a spherical Pez with sherbet in it.

R3 I got very sick in early December 2019. First symptoms were exhaustion & joint pains for 3 days. I started feeling better on the 4th day and seem to be getting better when I went wayyyy downhill.. cough that wouldn’t stop, extreme shortness of breath, chest pain. It took me a month to recover. My kidney numbers were affected and my glomerular filtration rate went way down. It took a year for them to return to near-normal. (I had my flu shot in October).

My dr sent to me a pulmonologist who said I had emphysema & put me on trelegy. At first it helped because it made the irritation in my trachea stop so I was able to stop coughing, But My lungs felt terrible. They felt tight, I felt short of breath I kept having to lie down and rest....for months.

I heard of covid 19 at the end of January. I told my Drs “That’s what I had.” They said, ‘No, no, it’s not in the United states.” I told them I went to my favorite Chinese restaurant in Manhattan at the end of November & was hugged by the owners & shook hands with the workers, because we hadn’t seen each other in a long, long time. Had they been to Wuhan? No idea, I haven’t been back there. Bu5 let’s keep in mind, it’s covid 19....as in “2019.”

Anyway, I feel much better since I stopped taking trelegy recently. And it doesn’t hurt that trelegy fucking costs $600 a month and I’m not going to be paying for it anymore. I had a chest CT today. I hope it’s better than the 2 CTs that showed tons of nodules & inflammation.

Oh, I kept getting Candida on my larynx. I swished & spit after using the trelegy, like I was supposed to. I ate yogurt. I use mouthwash. I was so hoarse thar people were treating me like I was deliberately trying to bother them. “EXCUSE ME? I can’t hear you!l” of course, the masks we’ve had to wear for the past year really helped make me even more unintelligible.

R2/R10/R11 wow, glad you’re ok now, that sounds dreadful and harrowing. Not ideal in any year, let alone the shitshow we just had. It’s good that your docs listen to you. I don’t think we get Spiriva in the U.K., but I’ve heard positive things about it.

My Ventolin gives me a weird residue at the back of my throat which makes me sound like Lindsay Lohan after a coke binge, and a ticklish burn that makes me want to compulsively clear my throat. Seretide doesn’t do that.

Not a Christian, but I’ll try to send out some good vibes and blessings for your CT. You’re a real sailor.

Just took a hit of my sister’s much-safer reliable Seretide, and I feel significantly better. Why retract such an effective treatment?