Biologics

[LottieB36]

Hi - following on from my previous posts, has anyone been rejected for biologics due to their inhaled steroid dose being high? I have Seretide 250mcg x2 puffs twice daily and pulmicort nebs 2mg twice daily. They’re saying the high doses of inhaled steroids are the cause of my infections, but I’m colonised with pseudomonas and have nebulised antibiotics to keep under control. They finally agree that I do have asthma but an infective phenotype rather than allergy driven (although they know I have difficulty during spring/summer and autumn - latest eosinophil count is 300 but apparently they will only consider other biologics if they can demonstrate this 3 times - I’m usually on prednisolone from April through to September and again if I get a chest infection - surely they can take this into consideration. Thanks 😊

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It is worry when they want to play around with meds that work. I feel like a lab mouse sometimes but they forget we are human.

[LottieB36 in reply to Hidden]

It’s wrong - they do it in the hope that no one will question them 😞