ventolin repeat prescription

[Lansdowne3]

what action to take when your doctor reduces ventolin supply

[twinkly29]

You need to ask them for an asthma review. If reliever inhalers are needed more than 3 times a week it indicates asthma is not controlled so preventer medication should be reviewed.

Some GPs (and it usually comes from a safety thing on the system) restrict supply of blue inhalers because of that - because with the right preventer meds one shouldn't need the reliever more than "allowed".

However this then doesn't get explained to patients!

So ask for an urgent asthma review because you are requiring more ventolin than you ideally should need which guidelines say requires a review.

[Poobah]

The only option is to talk to your doctor and discuss your asthma meds regime and your asthma control. My asthma nurse set a goal of three Ventolin inhalers a year (60 dose inhalers). However, regardless of how much I increased my preventer, I still need Ventolin most days as I don't respond well to steroids (my asthma type) and the long acting bronchodilator doesn't last 12 hours. My consultant has explained this in letters to my GP but I still have to talk to my GP every so often to ensure I get Ventolin on a more regular basis. At the moment the prescription repeat is for one Ventolin inhaler per month, but I don't request it more than once every two months.