I have Cough Variant Asthma, which I struggled with for 18 months, and it was only a visit to a (private) GP, that i discovered it was asthma!!! I have ended up on one of the turbohalers now
and am getting hairier (facial) by the minute. Haven't notice too much weight loss - cross fingers.
Has anyone else managed to come off these steroid inhalers and back on to the brown ventolin??
successfully? I am positive my cough, when it comes, is caused through some obscure allergy.
Brown ventolin? They are usually blue coloured. The brown inhalers are traditionally the steroid ones. Many asthmatics will be on a steroid, because that controls the condition.
I think you must be on a high dose of steroid to have that sort of effect that it is having on you. If your condition improves it might be possible to come down to a lower dose.
If you suspect your condition is made worse by an allergy, you could try anti-histamines.
The best course of action is to start monitoring yourself. When does it happen, what were the circumstances? Sometimes there aren't any, but over time you might start to see a pattern.
Thankyou for that. Sometimes you can't see what's right in front of one's eyes. The brown one I referred to is the same type as the blue, but obviously a different colour and i wasn't aware that it contained the steroids.
As you say - i will keep a diary on this, as I'm not too pleased, but grateful!,
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