I Just Saw an Ad for SYMBICORT (AstraZeneca), "My Asthma Symptoms Came Back", -?

Question

-does Any Adult Think that Asthma Just Disappears?

Answer 1

Asthma is something one has for a life time, I suppose. I myself have suffered from inflammatory pharyngitis till late 30's. After that it just seemed to go off......but at 49 an MI. And a number of other unrelated medical problems (anal fistula, severed flexor, all unrelated), gall stones and kidney stone (one) (could be related?) - that is what Homoeopathy says......suppress one disease and it has ways of popping up in different 'avatars'....is it true? But I have never suffered wheezing as in asthma. Seems to have a genetic make up for that trait ain't it?

Answer 2

Are you kidding?!!!! I had asthma as a kid. Went away until I was 45 and it came back with a vengeance. Was in the hospital almost as much as I was at home or work. Finally figured out that I was allergic to some trees in the area. Started with allergy shot therapy a the same time was put on Singular. Further study found that my asthma was complicated by sleep apnea and was put on a group of steriods to help with that and a cpap machine. Yet my asthma got worse as time went on. Finally got to the point I had to move completely away from my home town as there was more going on than just normal asthma -- inflamatory bronchitis. 4 times in a row each followed by pneumonia. d**n near killed me the fouth time.

While the steriods seemed to begin to help I put on weight like a whale. Swelled to 385 pounds from 200. Finally got fed up with the whole thing and did my own research. What the doctors were doing to me was killing me.

First I quit eating. Yeah that is right quit eating. Drank water and soy protien drink mix and that was it. Got rid of all the drugs except the Singular. My weight started down slowly and my blood chemistry headed back in the right direction.

Took me four years to get back to near normal. Presently at 210 pound and headed for 180 or so. Asthma is still there but not nearly as pronounced. The sleep apnea is not as severe and I expect that once I get under 190 it will go away too.

Now on a vegitarian diet with bits of chicken or salmon here and there but only occasionally. Walk 5 miles a day and swim laps for about an hour each day.

Feel a lot better. All because I took the time to really try and figure out what was happening and get back in touch with my own body. At 60 I don't think I feel so bad. Actually feel real good.

Answer 3

I dunno about the disappearance of asthma. I've never had serious asthma, but I've been on steroids on and off in my early childhood. My parents got me into competitive swimming and I also play french horn. As a consequence my VC is something like 6.75l. However, my FEV1 is relatively horrible - 4.75. So it doesn't really affect me overall, but its still there. There are different ways that asthma (at different levels of severity) affect people. I definitely get more affected by a chest infection - I'm still congested weeks after.

Perhaps the issue with this particular combination (and similar combinations of many drugs) is its suggested use in management of asthama crises when the corticosteroid component has little or no effect. This means that higher combined doses are prescribed to allow its use in crises management, overmedicating. Increasing the long term dose to mitigate an acute event is not good practice, methinks. Any thoughts yourself?