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40butpumpin
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Anyone have asthma, how do you deal with it? Medications, supplements, etc.? I know this is off topic, but it has the best chance for exposure here. I'd appreciate any help.
Anyone have asthma?
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Same here. It really only fucks with me when I run or do fina. Doesn't stop me from doing either though.genarr3 said:
40butpumpin
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Thanks, bro's.
GARAGE GORILLA, I was planning on doing a cycle with fina very soon, how does it fuck with you wrt fina?
GARAGE GORILLA, I was planning on doing a cycle with fina very soon, how does it fuck with you wrt fina?
my asthma is pretty bad. i used an albuterol inhaler prbly 7-10 times a day.
my doc recommended i try somethig called flovent and servent. i use two puffs of each every 12 hours. i never need my other inhaler unless i'm running or doing something the elevates my heart rate.
i'm so glad i tried this stuff. i was never able to leave my house without my inhaler. I HAD TO TAKE IT EVERYWHERE. those of you who have bad asthma know how it feels to have an attack and no access to your inhaler. you end up in the hospital.
anyway, my asthma is the best that it's ever been in my life. there are 2 more meds comming out next year and are expected to be approved by the FDA in 2004-2005. they are both said to be huge steps forward in the treatment of athsma. i'll try to find the artical and post it.
if you have any qustions, please feel free to email or pm me.
my doc recommended i try somethig called flovent and servent. i use two puffs of each every 12 hours. i never need my other inhaler unless i'm running or doing something the elevates my heart rate.
i'm so glad i tried this stuff. i was never able to leave my house without my inhaler. I HAD TO TAKE IT EVERYWHERE. those of you who have bad asthma know how it feels to have an attack and no access to your inhaler. you end up in the hospital.
anyway, my asthma is the best that it's ever been in my life. there are 2 more meds comming out next year and are expected to be approved by the FDA in 2004-2005. they are both said to be huge steps forward in the treatment of athsma. i'll try to find the artical and post it.
if you have any qustions, please feel free to email or pm me.
40butpumpin
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Thanks, bro, I'll probably take you up on that. I'm sorry to hear that your asthma is so bad. I'd love to check out that article about the pending drugs and in the mean time, I'll look up flovent.
Thanks again!!!
Thanks again!!!
I tend to get an almost constant shortness of breath when I use fina. No matter the speed of the injection I always get "fina cough" immediately after. I don't know what causes it but it is the only drug that has this effect on me. The shortness of breath is not so bad that i can't function it just becomes a bit irritating at times. As I said it is not bad enough for me to stop using fina all together. I believe I read a post by Huck that said the cough is caused by an influx of prostaglandins.....I don't know what effect if any this has on asthma.
Lumberg
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I have mild asthma and and albuterol whenever I need it (maybe once a week) takes care of it.
For all you asthmatics with a light wallet and some spare time: your asthma can be quite lucrative for you if you volunteer for drug studies. You get access to the newest drugs and get PAID about $30 an hour for your time. Check it out.
JC
For all you asthmatics with a light wallet and some spare time: your asthma can be quite lucrative for you if you volunteer for drug studies. You get access to the newest drugs and get PAID about $30 an hour for your time. Check it out.
JC
Here's the deal with asthma....essentially for all of you with mild asthma, which is usually rare associated with seasonal exacerbations and also with exercise, albuterol is usually all you need. It is a bronchodilator....essentially it hits all the small muscles in your lungs and causes them to open up. Historically, we used to think asthma was due to spasm of the airways and thought this was the mainstay of treatment. We were wrong.
Nowadays, we know asthma is an inflammatory disease, and it is lifelong. The treatment of asthma is steroids.....flovent, pulmucort...so those of you with more than mild asthma, especially you all using albuterol several times a day need to be taking the flovent serevent combo, or atleast something similar (this isn't an infomercial). The newest drug out there is Advair....which is essentially flovent and serevent together.
Here's the deal.....inhaled steroids work, as well as does serevent (basically long-acting albuterol)...however, the two in combination are much more than additive and the effects very beneficial. That's the premise of advair....before Advair we used the flovent with serevent combo, or some similar combo, and you carried around two inhalers. Now you only need one -pretty smart marketing idea -0 backed by real and very good science.
Many people with moderate to severe asthma still only take albuterol, and are a walking time-bomb...you are undertreated, and would have a much better quality of life if it were fully treated. All the latest studies show that once you are on an inhaled steroid and long acting Beta-agonist (like serevent), there is a very large and very significant reduction in the use of and, more importantly, the need for albuterol. Many people never have any bad asthma exacerbations once they are on the combo.
If you are using albuterol only, and using it several times a day, it is like putting the proverbial bandaid on the bleeding artery....quick fix but doesn't solve the problem.
Sure they may be expensive, but one hospitalization will cost more than a year of your meds. And yes, people do die from asthma. I've seen it twice in the past year, others came very close.
Also, untreated asthma changes the histologic structure of your lungs...(on a cellular level).....it is reversible, but this is something that you just don't want to live with when you can treat it...it's almost like volunteering to have emphysema....
In any event, that's the scoop...hope it didn't sound too medical and you all followed it.
Nowadays, we know asthma is an inflammatory disease, and it is lifelong. The treatment of asthma is steroids.....flovent, pulmucort...so those of you with more than mild asthma, especially you all using albuterol several times a day need to be taking the flovent serevent combo, or atleast something similar (this isn't an infomercial). The newest drug out there is Advair....which is essentially flovent and serevent together.
Here's the deal.....inhaled steroids work, as well as does serevent (basically long-acting albuterol)...however, the two in combination are much more than additive and the effects very beneficial. That's the premise of advair....before Advair we used the flovent with serevent combo, or some similar combo, and you carried around two inhalers. Now you only need one -pretty smart marketing idea -0 backed by real and very good science.
Many people with moderate to severe asthma still only take albuterol, and are a walking time-bomb...you are undertreated, and would have a much better quality of life if it were fully treated. All the latest studies show that once you are on an inhaled steroid and long acting Beta-agonist (like serevent), there is a very large and very significant reduction in the use of and, more importantly, the need for albuterol. Many people never have any bad asthma exacerbations once they are on the combo.
If you are using albuterol only, and using it several times a day, it is like putting the proverbial bandaid on the bleeding artery....quick fix but doesn't solve the problem.
Sure they may be expensive, but one hospitalization will cost more than a year of your meds. And yes, people do die from asthma. I've seen it twice in the past year, others came very close.
Also, untreated asthma changes the histologic structure of your lungs...(on a cellular level).....it is reversible, but this is something that you just don't want to live with when you can treat it...it's almost like volunteering to have emphysema....
In any event, that's the scoop...hope it didn't sound too medical and you all followed it.
I started on Advair 100/50 diskus. It has drastically reduced my shortness of breath and coughing throughout the day. Coworkers notice that i have stopped coughing and shortness of breath. Well, took off 3 days and it came back. Looks like i will be on it again.
Prior to using Advair, i was using albuterol 4-5 times a day. Now, maybe right before working out or right after.
Prior to using Advair, i was using albuterol 4-5 times a day. Now, maybe right before working out or right after.
