I have been on Advair since Feb. of this year, I have had a lot o...

Advair works for most people without major side effects. However as can be seen here since Advair is so widely taken the minority comes to thousands of people with problems. For most people with asthma Advair is "over kill" (bad choice of words) meaning for someone who has extreme asthma then it is worth the risk. For the vast majority of asthma sufferers there are other medicines without the side effects. Advair is a medicine with 2 components. A corticosteroid to control inflammation and a long acting broncho dilator (12 hour version of albuterol) It is the long lasting dilator, Salbuterol which caused most of the problems. So for most sufferers medications like Asmanex, Pulmicort, Q-Var or even Flovent (the steroid in Advair) should work without the side effects.

Today I started to wonder if my recent bout with headaches may be due to advair and when I did a search I found this thread. It's got either be the advair or sinuses. I wake up with a horrible headache and have it pretty much all day. When I lay awake at night for 2-3 hours, it comes back with a vengeance. This makes me think it's a sinus infection or something because it's really bad when I've been laying down, but I really don't have any problems with my nose. This started about one week after starting advair.

I've had a lot of different side effects lately and I'm not yet able to pinpoint why because I've had a lot of changes in the last couple of months...went on oxygen at night, switched some meds, added others, etc. I'm going to try a few days without advair and see what happens. I'm torn...I don't like medications and it's VERY expensive, but I've seen 2 articles in the last few days that those who use advair have decreased risk for lung cancer of like around 60% or more.