Is Advair Causing This???

[Floxed]

Your welcome, hopefully stopping the Advair will help you, as fluoroquinolone ADR's can be a terrible nightmare. Just so you know, there are many people who take quinolones repeatedly without any obvious ill effects, but then they'll have a severe reaction to them following a treatment later on, so it's always a possibility. Some other signs of an adverse reaction to fluoroquinolones to look out for are fatigue, memory loss, depersonalization, muscle twitching, and neuropathic pains (among many, many others).

Good luck and take care.

[wayover20]

Well the day I wrote the first post is was the last day I took the Advair.....and I haven't had one cramp since!! I called my doctor to let him know I wasnt' taking it and he said he had never heard of cramping as a side effect for it, but went ahead and prescribed me flovent instead. I think it's similar to advair without the salmeterol. I have to say I did have more coughing without the advair diskus, but those darned cramping/spasms were just too awful to tolerate. I checked on Medications.com and looked up side effects to advair on the forums. Lo and behold there were numerous people reporting the same problems with cramps.

[Howitt44]

Sometimes I think doctors don't like to admit side affects to some drugs. After all, the drug companies and the doctors are buddies! They look out for one another! I have tried Flovent in the past. Maybe I should switch also. Has anyone ever had side affects from Flovent?

[wayover20]

Do a search on Flovent, I did and didn't find even a third of the adverse effects that Advair had. Don't get me wrong...it (advair) worked great as far as respiratory goes. Unfortunately for me anyhow, the side effects were too much. I still haven't had another cramp since stopping it.

[channing]

I took Advair 100/50 for about a year and was doing good then I started getting panic attacks and my left hand shook.My dr. took me off the Advair in march and put me on Asmanex 220 and with all the tree pollen I'm not doing very well.Has anyone had good results with Asmanex?