Appointment

[shadow4me]

After waiting a month to see the resp nurse I went to the surgery to find she was of with her poorly lad so I was seen by the practice nurse practitioner ,The reason was to ask to be put back on Seretide has I feel I get a lot of side affects on Fostair .During my consultation I said that sometimes I felt the side affects of the inhaler eg steroid one made you feel worse she then told me not to take it just use my rescue inhaler ?I of course would be scared to do this but it has made me think do they just give us with COPD these inhalers to shut us up I have severe COPD so I need something the mind boggles x

[mrsmummy]

Why not give the BLF helpline a call for advice on how to proceed with this?

03000 030 555

[Time_2_drink]

I'm with you there why would she tell you not to take it just ridiculous take care xx

[Nottobad]

What a stupid thing to say why couldn't she give you a prescription for the one you feel happy with. I would ask for a review of your inhalers. Can you not make an appointment with your GP. Eveyware deals with things differently I only get my inhalers changed if my resp consultant says it is okay. Hope you get something sorted out soon take care x

[shadow4me in reply to Nottobad]

She did give me a script for seretide .But am just boggled why she would suggest to stop the preventer x

[shadow4me]

No I know enough about copd to realise I need my steroid inhaler ,I have lost faith in my surgery but we only have two practises in our town so I'm stuck x

[twopars12]

There's a lot of guess work with GP's & nurses as they don't really know other than trial & error. Good luck anyway.

[shadow4me]

No I'm not a nurse but am just learning things has I go along and from advice from others ,I know I need my steroid inhaler has it does open my airways to a degree so I feel the benefit but just hate the side affects x