tired of athma attacks - Asthma Message Board

chrisitine · 06-19-2009, 03:00 AM

Hi Everyone
Well, I am having another asthma attack which seems to be the norm for me lately. I just had one about 2 weeks ago and now another one. I am on advair 500, alvesco, spriva and ventalin as needed along with flonase and reactine as needed. I am on prednisone again. It seems like I cannot manage without the prednisone anymore when my asthma flares up. I have been to my local asthma clinic many times and I am going to a respiratory rehab program just north of me. It does not seem like anyone can find the right combo of medications for my asthma to stay controlled.
Has anyone tried xolair. My blood levels do not qualify me for it but I have been told there are other tests that one can do to qualify for it.

Can anyone relate??

gcsjr · 06-19-2009, 10:01 AM

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It does not seem like anyone can find the right combo of medications for my asthma to stay controlled.

Do you (and your doctors) have a good handle on what your asthma triggers are? It sounds like there could be an unidentified (or unmanaged) trigger that is causing you to have such frequent attacks. Acid reflux is a common trigger (that is sometimes exacerbated by things like oral prednisone) as are hidden allergens like dust mites.

MountainReader · 06-19-2009, 07:16 PM

I second gcsmithjr. I had out of control asthma that treatment wasn't really helping. Turned out my 'silent' reflux was triggering it by constantly irritating my lungs. I was even aspirating some of the acid as well. Acid reflux treatment was my way to help get the asthma under control. It was easier to deal with the environmental triggers when I got the reflux as a trigger under control. For me, it took a Pulmonologist testing to diagnosis this after a very long time of treating things seperately.

Choice · 06-19-2009, 10:26 PM

Do you use a nebulizer? The first few months I was trying to get my asthma under control with Advair and Singulair, using a nebulizer fairly regularly prevented attacks.

engineer1961 · 06-26-2009, 11:00 AM

Are you over tired..over stressed or over worked latley?(iIsound like a darn commercial) Anyone of those can send me in to asthma attack after asthma attack ....and which spirals out of contoll becasue then I get more over tired and over stressed.....I do find Yoga helps and just tryign to totally avoid my triggers as much as humanly possible during this time period. Either that or I end up in the hospital with Phnemonia ontop of the attacks .