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I use pulmicort (budesonide) twice a day, two puRAB each time usually. However, over the last year I have also been taking singulair as my asthma was getting worse. This has not helped me at all and I stopped taking that about two weeks ago. Over the last year I am using my rescue inhaler (turbuteline) more and more often and have had to double the pulmicort dose. On visiting the GP last week she has given me serevent (salmeterol xinafoate) to take one puff morning and night. I have been reading a lot of bad reports about this inhaler and the longer acting beta agonists in general.

I really do not have much confidence in the doctors - at our surgery we are always referred to nurses to sort out our meRAB and to be honest they don't seem to have a clue - reading books to see what to give you doesn't inspire confidence.

Does anyone take serovent?

Does anyone take syrabicort - how has that been for you?

Thanks

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Salmeterol is associated with a slight increase in the risk of a severe attack, but for most people most of the time, it improves control.

I tried Advair (steroid + salmeterol,) then Asmanex, (steroid only) then Syrabicort. I found that Syrabicort was the most effective by far. I actually have times where my lungs fee completely normal for hours at a time.

Unlike Advair, Syrabicort did make me a little jittery at 4 puRAB a day. Two puRAB in the morning, plus some extra steroid when the pollen count goes up seems to be my magic formula.

Also, Advair and Syrabicort seem to upset my stomach, but then so does my rescue inhaler. And Tylenol, for that matter, my stomach is absurdly sensitive.
 
Hi Jane, thanks for your reply.

I really don't think I want to take this serevent at all as I don't want to take the risk.

Do you consider your asthma to be moderate or severe?

Is syrabicort linked to any risks that you know of? I. like you, feel a bit jittery when I need to take more than one puff of the bricanyl (turbetuline). So I would be used to that!

What I also find a bit scary is that the pharmacy gave me a serevent accuhaler which is 4 months out of date. This made me think that because most inhalers have at least a couple of years use by date, that maybe not many people were on this stuff. When I rang up and asked that question the lady said that not many people were prescribed it. Mmmm, makes me wonder really why I was put on it as opposed to syrabicort.

MAC2
 
Not many people are prescribed Serevent because enormous nurabers of people are prescribed Advair, which is Salmeterol plus the steroid fluticasone. You already have a steroid, so Dr gave you the Salmeterol alone.

Don't ignore the risk, but don't overestimate it. I think it was like 2.5% of people taking it had a serious problem during the study period versus 1.5% of people not taking it. (Too tired to look up the precise nurabers!)

I do not consider my asthma particularly severe. Maybe moderate. During high pollen season, I do have symptoms 24 hours a day if I'm not adequately medicated, but I've never, like, turned blue or anything.
 
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