ventolin or briconyl - Asthma Message Board

Nicole-Brittany · 02-09-2004, 08:50 PM

I was wondering if you thought ventolin (with a spacer) would be better than briconyl (turbuhaler). I am a very athletic person, but my asthma is triggered by excercize (and other things).I feel that I am not getting the briconyl into my lungs, and when i tried a flovent disk, I could feel it in my mouth. What would you suggest?

PinkBanana · 02-09-2004, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Nicole-Brittany

I was wondering if you thought ventolin (with a spacer) would be better than briconyl (turbuhaler). I am a very athletic person, but my asthma is triggered by excercize (and other things).I feel that I am not getting the briconyl into my lungs, and when i tried a flovent disk, I could feel it in my mouth. What would you suggest?

Spacers help a lot, period. I think so anyway. It took me a while to adjust to the Advair diskus(same as the flovent) and finally now i'm not getting the powder in my mouth..although when i'm not breathing too well the powder gets itno my mouth.
My favorite for REALLY getting the medicine into your lungs pre-exercise is Xopenex..although it can make you really nervous if you take it with albuterol.

dolphins · 02-09-2004, 10:37 PM

Hi -

I use Ventolin (and Atrovent) with a spacer- works very well for me and if do get SOB it's only cos' I am so unfit.
I've used Bricanyl (+ Serevent, Tilade) in the past, but still had probs with EIA.

Cheers, dolphins.

hc85 · 02-10-2004, 01:38 AM

Flovent isn't a rescue inhaler, but a maintenance med. You may already know that, but just wanted to clear it up. Feeling it in your mouth should be fine...As long as you inhale as powerfully as you can. Just rinse your mouth out and keep going on with your day.

You may consider doing something like serevent or foradil. These are long-acting bronchodilators that are usually taken twice a day to help with exercise-induced bronchospasm. These MUST be taken with an inhaled steroid, because studies show that work a lot better when in conjuction with an ICS (inhaled corticosteroid).

It depends on what you like, but the bricanyl may help better than the ventolin or vice versa. You don't know til you try, really...

Nicole-Brittany · 02-10-2004, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by hc85

Flovent isn't a rescue inhaler, but a maintenance med. You may already know that, but just wanted to clear it up. Feeling it in your mouth should be fine...As long as you inhale as powerfully as you can. Just rinse your mouth out and keep going on with your day.

You may consider doing something like serevent or foradil. These are long-acting bronchodilators that are usually taken twice a day to help with exercise-induced bronchospasm. These MUST be taken with an inhaled steroid, because studies show that work a lot better when in conjuction with an ICS (inhaled corticosteroid).

It depends on what you like, but the bricanyl may help better than the ventolin or vice versa. You don't know til you try, really...

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haha sorry I ment to say ventolin instead of flowvent...i don't know what I was thinking. I think I may ask my doctor for ventolin so I can try it. If it works better for me then great...but if it doesn't, I think I'll just stick with the bricanyl. Is one more powerful than the other?