Anyone Here Use Inhalers?

[Gebe]

I'm 72 and started having to use inhalers about a year ago. I'm a Marine Corps vet who served in '68-'70.

I get them through the V.A. I have to use them maybe twice a day but they have been a godsend. I've never been checked for COPD but I probably have it. So far the inhalers have been working fine.

Anyone else using them?

 

[Rustyt1953]

Ruthie has asthma and uses this as a "rescue inhaler".

 

[meaneyedcatz]

First, thank you for your service. I appreciate it!!!
Yes I use albuteral (spelling) and it's okay. IMO it is better than nothing. I asked doctor hart, burns and belcher if there is something better and he gave me a sample of Dulara (again, spelling) and I believe it helped out nice. BUT , the insurance company of Dewey, cheatem and Howe does not cover this med.
I have asthma. The dr said mild but if it's mild I sure would hate to experience a bad case. In the summertime if I'm outside I get dizzy when talking.

 

[ContinentalOp]

Yup. Have had to deal with asthma off and on for most of my life. Have also dealt with pneumonia and bronchitis. This past year I've been diagnosed with asthma, emphysema, COPD, and multiple allergies.

My lungs and I don't get along.

Currently using an albuterol rescue inhaler, but don't have to use it too often. Maybe 2-3 times/week, if that. Also use a nebulizer from time to time. FWIW, I find the nebulizer gives better, longer-lasting relief than my albuterol inhaler, though not quite as fast acting. And I use Advair twice/day. It's used more as a preventative measure, and I think it's the main reason I don't have to use my rescue inhaler or nebulizer as much as I used to. May want to ask your doctor about that.

 

[Golddollar]

I had one for a month. I was having some vertigo issues that were ear related. I used the inhaler in the morning to try to clear the tubes from my throat to my ear. It seems to have worked, as I am not having the vertigo problem now.

 

[Texas Star]

Yes, I have asthma. Use albuterol and Advair.

Saw my blue-gray inhaler Ventolin on an ep. of, Sea Patrol, an Australian Show on YouTube

 

[Texas Star]

People on TV seldom use inhalers right. Like they hang up phones too quick, while still speaking.

 

[MTC(SS)Ret]

My Doc put me on the ProAir inhaler as needed for my mild COPD. Seems to help some. Probably be better if I quit smoking too, but that's the only bad habit I have left!!! (except my addiction to guns...HAHA)

 

[Rustyt1953]

People on TV seldom use inhalers right.

[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bDHEEV0M62Y[/ame]

 

[MTC(SS)Ret]

Dr House asthma inhaler - YouTube

Stupid woman!!! Everyone knows you squirt it into your ears right??

 

[D Brown]

I use the ProAir (Albuterol Sulfate) rescue inhaler. I probably only use it 6 or 7 times a week.

 

[rwsmith]

Various....

I use various ones, especially when sick with some respiratory thing. Right now on a daily basis I use nasal sprays and for the first time in my life, they seem to be helping rather than feeding infections.

 

[Twiki357]

Reading these comments, you guys are lucky. I have advanced COPD and use an assortment of them every day, besides being on oxygen 24/7. Ventolin every 4 hours, Symbacort twice daily, and Spirva once daily. Or I was until the Pharmacist at Walgreens told me about a couple of generics that cost very little.
- Budesonide-Formoterol by AstraZeneca in place of the expensive Ventolin.
- Albuterol Sulfate by Prasco in place of Symbacort.
Identical to the name brands and saves me $40 a month on each.
I hope this may be of benefit to some of you.

 

[islamoradamark]

I use my symbicort when i feel my chest get a little tight. doc tells me to use in morning. I use my Albuterol when needed when I cant breath it works well. If i take a trip up to the big city I always have one in my car or in my pocket.

 

[Frank46]

Albuterol and Ventelin not sure of correct spelling. One is a regular daily use inhaler and one is a rescue inhaler to be used in emergencies. Not noting an increase in my breathing right now. Been having problems with my right knee and got the cortisone shot and muscle relaxer. Lay in bed and the knee is throbbing. Using a cane in getting around the house. Frank

 

[Oracle]

I am less than a month away from turning seventy. I have COPD, I have been packing an Albuterol rescue inhaler for around ten years. My doctor recently prescribed a Symbicort inhaler to be used twice per day.

My wife notices well before I do that I need to us the Albuterol inhaler, I wheeze.

I served twenty years in the U. S. Coast Guard, operations, and then worked twenty five years for Washington state in an office setting. I don't know what caused the COPD.

 

[steelslaver]

COPD and Symbicort here.

 

[Heymatt]

50 years of asthma problems, currently on Advair for daily use and Albuterol as a rescue inhaler.

 

[brucev]

First, thank you for your service. I appreciate it!!!
Yes I use albuteral (spelling) and it's okay. IMO it is better than nothing. I asked doctor hart, burns and belcher if there is something better and he gave me a sample of Dulara (again, spelling) and I believe it helped out nice. BUT , the insurance company of Dewey, cheatem and Howe does not cover this med.
I have asthma. The dr said mild but if it's mild I sure would hate to experience a bad case. In the summertime if I'm outside I get dizzy when talking.

I am not laughing at all at your health issues. But, that being said ... your names for your doctor and insurance company are hilarious! Sincerely. bruce.

 

[ContinentalOp]

I don't know what caused the COPD.

FWIW, my doctor and pulmonologist are at a loss to explain my emphysema. I've never smoked. I grew up in an area with bad air quality, but I haven't lived there for over 20 years. They even tested me for a genetic marker that predisposes one to emphysema, and that was negative.

Fortunately, my emphysema/COPD is relatively mild. My asthma is the main culprit in my respiratory problems.