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My 15 y.o. daughter has has first hand experience with weight gai...

Posted at 9: 0 AM on Apr 04, 2008 by hrtprice, #29123
My 15 y.o. daughter has has first hand experience with weight gain on Advair. About 6 years ago at about 9 y.o., she gained 20 lbs in 6 months - and it started happening exactly when she started the drug. She was very active (swim team, gymnastics, etc) and did not overeat. It is very frustrating that both her pediatrician and her asthma/allergy specialist deny that her small dose of Advair is to blame. For some reason, and I have talked to others that this has happened to, switching to Singulair did not help her with the weight problem. Seems the people who are hypersensitive to inhaled steroids are also sensitive to Singulair. Concerned about her rapid weight gain, and because she was always so thin, I took her to an endocrinologist to rule out any other problems. After a lot of bloodwork, he concluded that he could not rule out that it was a side effect of the Advair and/or Singulair, and that they may have elevated her blood sugar. I have read tons and tons of postings on the internet about children & adults rapidly gaining weight from inhaled corticosteroids (i.e. Flovent, Advair), along with the round face, bloated stomach, stretch marks, thin skin, easy bruising, etc. but nobody ever says what happens after stopping any of these drugs. Do people ever go back to normal? Do kids look like themselves again? Do any of the side effects disappear? She is now 15 y.o. and cannot reverse her weight gain no matter what (30 lbs overweight). The last 2 years, she has only been on a small dose of Pulmicort (a different class of corticosteroid even safe to take when pregnant) since she has mild persistent asthma, and allergy shots have helped trememdously. My husband and I have been looking for 6 years now on how to avoid our daughter's weight gain with asthma drugs. If you run into any info., please let us know. Any experiences or info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Reply about 1 year ago on Apr 18, 2008 by zena87, #7390

i too have gained 10 pounds in less than 8 months when i started takin it. i noticed my belly gettin bigger, and was in shock when i saw the 10 gained pounds. i dont overeat and never really used to gain like this. i also have a thrush due to advair, its goin away now cause im on meds and stopped takin it. but one thing, i will never touch advair again. bruises everywhere, chest pain, timbling and numb hands. even pack pain. and about a handful of hairloss a day . i got off advair 2 days ago because i cant gain any more weight its frustratin to lose it all again. the steroids make you hungry and therefore make u crave for alot of glucose foods . even if u dont overeat it will store it as fats and sugars in ur body.
there is somekind of cleanse that u take in form of a pill i assume and that cleanes out all the leftover advair in the body, however i am still lookin for it too.

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Reply about 1 year ago on Apr 20, 2008 by debz, #7450

I just want to say thank you for posting this, my son is 12 and just started taking advair and i have noticed he has just gained weight, when they took your daughter off the advair did she have any reactions to switching? Asthma is very scary it seems that when they first perscribed the rescue inhaler if made him addicted to it. now the adair stops the rescue inhaler but am scared about all the bad affects. Now they say singular is bad how is your daughter doing with the growth and any side affect besides weight gain.

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Reply about 1 year ago on Jul 07, 2008 by pproft, #9867

Be aware of something called Steroid induced Cushing's. Look at www.cushings-help.com.

Pat

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