Experiences with

Avonex

Hi folks, I'm feeling very depressed this evening. I've had a few chest infections over the last three winters, three in 2008, one last year and a mild one already this year. I spoke to the asthma UK nurse before Christmas and she recommended that I ask my doctor about trying a montelukas tablet in

Hi I need to ask a question or two of you wise medics, which may or may not be asthma/treatment related. A bit of background. I've only been diagnosed with asthma and bronchiectasis (mild) for about 4 years. I'm 51 and menopausal and was diagnosed with osteoarthritis and Sjogren's Syndrome about a

Hi I've been using Nasonex for a couple of years now, and my asthma has been much better in that time. However, my nose is very very dry and it often bleeds when I blow it, but I have to blow it as it feels blocked up. Today, after I coughed,I realized there was blood in my spsutum. I think it is probably

My GP thinks I have these. He has just looked up my nose which feels really stuffed and blocked like it needs blowing but dry. I use nasonex nasal spray - he prescribed nasal oral steroid drops but unobtainable at the moment - manufacturing prob so I'm to double my nasonex for the time being to try

hi im new to this site. i have had asthma since i was a child but after the birth of my second child 4yrs ago it has got much worse. about a month ago i developed chest infection i had 2 lots of antibiotics and 3 lots of steriods. when i saw my cons last week i expained that i was struggling doing everyday

Hi, I've been nosing about this forum for a while. If you can read through the background to my question about theophylline that'd be fab. Brief history. Have had asthma since approx 3 years old am now 36. Past 5 years asthma has gone from what I'd say pretty typical asthma is (low dose steroid

Need some advice, i had to do an emergency dash to the local emergency clinic as had another rapid rhinitis infection that i was given a course of antibiotics and new Flixonase nasules, can you use the drops along with the same inhaler? Im on a topped up dose of seretide and flixtide as it is and this

Hi guys Just wondering if anyone can give me some advice, I went to see my asthma nurse today and she gave me some new prescriptions which the doctors suggested i should try, one of them was for a budesonide/eformoterol inhaler which was a lower dose them my current seretide inhaler and I have also tried

I'm relatively new to AUK, so i hope this is in the right place. But i'm curious about when its time to put your foot down with your consultant/healthcare team? so far this year i've had four intensive care admission...(and its only May) and not an awful lot seems to have been done about it. I know

I'm planning to see my GP next week, so just looking for some advice so I can be prepared for what she might suggest. I'm currently on 2 puffs seretide 250 twice a day, fexofenadine and nasonex. Tried singulair last year and it didn't work. Have had a few courses of prednisolone and antibiotics over

So much as I'm really glad that the sun is shining again, my hayfever has been bad for the last week - 10 days even though the pollen forecast says the count is low. I'm taking fexofenadine and nasonex on top of my inhalers and have been since the beginning of March. Yet if I go outside/open any windows

Hey I'm on nasonex for allergic rhinitus and have found over the last month or so I've been getting nose bleeds. Not bad ones, but small ones which I think must normally be higher up in my nose as normally it goes down the back of my throat a bit or I'll wake up having had one. Anyway, I got these on

Hi im new and was diagnosed in Novemeber at 39 after hoping id got away with it (its a family thing). Anyway, ive had no help or advice apart from my mom! I had my first attack whilst sat at my desk at work, with no warning at all - is this normal?! I completely panicked and hyperventilated. I also have

Hi all, My story Im Kate, 16 years old and was diagnosed with asthma last year. In the past 2 months I’ve been in hospital twice. The first time was really scary and they couldn’t control it at my local hospital so I was transferred to a kid hospital and put in Intensive care on CPAP (non-invasive

Hi, My name is Beth and I am 24 I live in Manchester with my guide dog Sandie. I was diagnosed with asthma when I was eighteen after going to Paris and coming back being unable to speak and quite breathless from being allergic to the pollution. Since then I was given a brown inhaler and a blue inhaler

Hi everyone, I am 28 years old and was diagnosed with Rhinitis in January at the hospital ENT clinic and Asthma in March, on going back to my GP after 5 weeks of continual coughing at the end of April they also say I have hayfever. I am on 2 inhalers (beclazone 100, and salamol, montelukast tablets,

It started in January of this year. I had a cough with lots of mucus every single day. There was no cold that preceeded it or any other illness. I was coughing so much it affected my bladder and was making me vomit. Even food was triggering my episodes. Something too hot, too dry, too crunchy (ie: popcorn

My Gp surgery is driving me insane Rang yesterday to check if prescription i had ordered prior to going into hospital was actually there as couldn't remember if had ordered one item to be told couldn't answer that over the phone. fine so got someone to drive me down there and no prescrption but i am

am not getting on with the ointment and psoriasis is coming back worse than ever :-(