rebound asthma?

[elmo1966]

Hi all

Last week, my meRAB were changed and I was placed on Singular 10mg once daily, Prendisone 50mg once daily x5 days. I am still on my ventolin and my advair 500mcg twice daily.They also did a chest xray which came back normal. My peak flows are 350 which is not ideal.

Started to feel a bit better until today. My top part of my chest(straight across) feels like someone has taken a hammer to it. I went back to the clinic to get reassessed. The doctor said I sounded good for an asthmatic. She was not impressed that my peak flows were still so low when I was not wheezing. I was only worried about the pain and "pins and needles" feeling in my head. I have a slight tight cough with no wheezing.

The doctor mentioned rebound asthma from coming off of the prendisone? I am now on another batch of 50mg x2 days and 25mg x3 days. I have to go for blood work and a EKG tomorrow to rule out the heart. She said that she was almost positive it was not the heart.

I should also mention I am in my 40s and quit smoking 13 months ago. I have noticed my asthma has changed since quitting and am slowly getting used to the new warning signs of when I am bad.

Now for the reason for this post. Rebound asthma has anyone heard of it? What else can I do to help such as vitamins? I do finally have a referal in for the asthma clinic(hubby demanded one as he says I need to figure this out with an asthma doctor).

Thank you for reading and all replies

Susan

 

[JohnR41]

Susan,

I have never heard of "Rebound asthma." I never had it myself but I'm not surprised to hear it. I used to have asthma as a youngster but outgrew it.
I never took any medication on a regular basis. I'd rather suffer with the asthma than the side effects.

What else can you do to help? Rather than take vitamins, I would first try to make dietary improvements. It's strongly suspected that asthma is caused by inflamation. And poor food choices, among other things, cause inflamation. There are a few books on this subject. one of them is: "The Anti-inflammation Diet Plan" by Monica Reinegal.

In the mean time, here are some ideas: Lots of things cause inflamation. Smoking, being overweight, and eating processed fooRAB. Basically, what you need is an all natural diet consisting of whole fooRAB that are low in saturated fat. In other worRAB, no soft drinks, baked gooRAB made with white flour, chips, pizza, candy etc.. Concentrate on eating fruit, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeRAB.

Good luck.

 

[taragram]

I just had a conversation with my pulmonologist about this yesterday. I had 2 back to back attacks and have been on prednisone for about 2 weeks...40 mg for 6 days, then slowly tapering down to 10 since then. When I told him my family doc told me to stop after taking 10 mg for 4 days, his eyes popped out. He said if I tapered that fast after being on prednisone for that length of time, I would no doubt have a "rebound asthma attack". I'm going to 5 mg for a week, then 5mg every other day for a week.
Other times that I've been on prednisone for shorter perioRAB, we started on 40mg for 3 days, the 3 days on 30, 3 days on 20, 3 days on 10.
Might want to ask your doc about a slower taper. Good luck.