diagnosed last year

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Hi everybody, last year in April my doctor diagnosed me with asthma. For years ive had trouble breathing/coughing etc and after 2 visits he prescribed me the blue salbutamol inhaler. He told me to take it twice up to four times daily, however reading up on this i heard that dosage can do more harm than good?
Anyway its been 9 months since i have been to my doctor and my inhaler is nearly running out, my symptoms flare up more in spring and winter. The inhaler seems to work when i have trouble breathing so would i make an appointment with my GP or the nurse i saw last May? Also what should I say? Thanks.
 
You should be on a daily preventer - not just the rescue inhaler. Are you going to a pulmonologist? If not, you should go see one for a proper evaluation and proper meRAB.
 
I'm not sure where you read that, but that is the normal dosage for salbutamol. There's no reason it would do more harm than good to use 2 puRAB 4 times a day.



You would probably be better off making an appointment with a pulmonologist to get your breathing tested and to get on an asthma management plan (and a preventive inhaler).
 
Thanks. Im just on the rescue yes :/ when i first went to see him, he thought it could be allergies so he gave me allergy tablets, which did more harm than good, So i went back a couple of weeks later which he then gave me the rescue inhaler which helped, but i never went back after that, and now my inhaler is running out, i think i need a new one with spring/summer coming up which also seems to be a bad time for me, aswell as winter.
 
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