Raspy voice symptoms and conditions

severe dry hacking cough and raspy voice

I am on Advair 250 and have been for three months. I have gained 30 pounds since taking Advair. I am otherwise healthy and have not had any change in diet. I also have a raspy voice now due to taking Advair daily. I am calling my doctor on Monday to get off of this medication!

I have been on Advair for 3 years. I was have a real hard time breathing, more than normal, thought it was the asthma. Then I started choking on my saliva, my food, couldn't swallow my pills. The choking would trigger an asthma attack so I would have to use the albuterol. Since I took myself off the advair 2 weeks ago, all symptoms have disappeared. I have not had to use the albuterol yet. I have also experienced raspy voice and weight gain of 30 lbs. I think the advair was directly contributing to my choking.

I was prescribed Advair along with something else during 2004, and lost my voice. I discontinued both and my voice came back. In May of 2005, I was suffering from asthma again and the doctor prescribed Advair again, and within several days the horaseness and raspy voice was back. I continued to take it for several weeks, thinking it would get better, but it did not. I am now about 16 weeks Advair free and still my voice comes and goes. I've been to ENT and am taking Nasonex and a cough medication, and if it does not clear up then have to see a speech therapist. Thanks to Advair. It ought to be off the market!!!

For the last six months, I have been attributing my aches and pains to getting older. Boy, was I wrong! Ever since I was a small child, my asthma kept me imprisoned in oxygen tents early on in life. I continued to suffer with Asthma throughout my adult life. Now, as a 43 year old male. I decided to give Advair a try, after my doctor advised me of it's benefits. One month after taking Advair, and continuing for the next five months, I started to experience horrific cramps in my calves and toes (while laying in bed trying to sleep), constant headaches, tightness in the chest area, constant pains in my stomach on both sides, joint pains, sneezing spells, occasional runny nose, diarrhea, thrush, difficulty in speaking after 3-4 minutes, raspy voice, depression, fatigue, tired all the time, frequent urination, mood swings, pain in shoulders, back & neck, short term memory, weight gain around the stomach, tingling sensations from the top of both arms down to the fingertips, and malaise.
I just looked at the long, extensive paper insert that comes with the Advair Diskus, and NOWHERE, does it mention anything about side effects, nor did my doctor state that there were potentially, hazardous side effects. As of today, I have stopped all prescriptions cold turkey! No more Advair, Proscar, Zyrtec, or Rhinocort Aqua! I refuse to be victimized by the pharmaceutical companies any longer. I'm going back to the good old Albuterol only when needed. My brother is a Pharmacist, and said that it takes just less than a week to eliminate the mentioned drugs from your system. I have come to the conclusion that there is a special place in HELL for the people who glorify the Pharmaceutical Marketing to the public. If you have an Advair Diskus in your possession, I strongly recommend that you burn it and pray for forgiveness. While you're at it, you might want to say a silent prayer for the Pharmaceutical Companies, because they are going to need it!

I have been haveing pains in my joints tight chest,weight gain, my legs are so weak,sore troat,raspy voice,which I am a singer so it really effected my work,I get numbness down my left side and my heart beats really fast,,it scared me so much,,I stared haeing doubts about docters these days,,my docter gave me them as samples out dated,but told me to use them anyway,that being out dated was harmless,I haven't felt like myself in a long time,does anyone know if it ever goes out of your system,can I ever be back to the way I was,,Please help me if you have any information,I have 5 children and I want to be able to watch them grow,will the pain in my chest down my side and my legs can I take anything healthy to make things better,,I find it weird,,because I find it hard to take tynol for anything because I always hate to take any kind of drugs,then I turn around trust my docter and take one of the worst drugs out there,

I also had raspy voice and minor sore throat. I gained 10 lbs in 30 days. I had a horrible time sleeping and it progressly got worse by the day. I quit taking it and after a week, I am slowly getting to sleep a little better. Having a problem with sore neck at the base of my skull. Not sure if this is related but it started a couple weeks after taking advair.

I've been using Advair non-stop for about three years. At first, with the exception of a slight sore throat and raspy voice by mid-afternoon, I felt great, to the point where I forgot I was asthmatic. I developed several other symptoms very gradually, so gradually that I didn't associate them with the medicine. I've experienced the following symptoms, some worse than others:

Sore throat, loss of voice, fungal infections of the mouth (this is really getting out of hand!) and vagina, slight headaches, painful joints and feet (soles), muscle stiffness; muscle cramping(neck, abdominal, leg and feet), dental discomfort, red eyes, blurry vision and "floaters", dark circles; difficulty sleeping; weight gain, especially around the middle. Slight facial hair; sallow, dry skin, and poor healing (slow healing of wounds and scars). The latest :sudden bouts of weakness and sleepiness.

I think it's time to take a break and cleanse the system.