Biologic treatment for severe uncontrolled asthma

[hankisbest]

Hello everyone,Nothing seems to help my asthma the last two years. I developed a deep chesty cough with lots of sputum in January last year, and it lasted for many months. It came back this January and I decided to do something about it. I was prescribed pulmacort for nebulizer to help in addition to my regular meds (advair, monulokast Spireva). No help. We discussed biologic treatment and I was told I didn't fit the criteria for insurance coverage. The cough remained.

I'm a CLL survived in remission for two years and am familiar with monoclonal antibody treatment for the cancer.

I caught a cold and spiraled into an asthma attack. I asked my pulmonologist office for Prednisone and antibiotics. They waited almost two weeks to comply, and I was in a bad way. I kept thinking I needed to go to the emergency room, but then thought, what will they do that hasn't been done? The Prednisone and doxycycline helped get over the attack. I've had one refill of the doxycycline which helped.

What should I do? Ask for more doxy? Culture the sputum? Try to get the biologic treatment?

Thanks for listening.