I was diagnosed with asthma as a child. In late teens it seemed ...

why not try the lower dose of advair? i was on the 150/50 dose for years. i only took it once a day. i also noticed slow healing, lots of hair in the shower drain and my dentist thought that i must be grinding my teeth since the enamel appeared to be crumbling. i never even connected these things to advair until i read the posts here. and this was only with one dose a day!
then i cut it to once every other day and now am working with a kinesthesiologist doing exercises & taking other supplements to lick this. she wanted me off advair and suggested flovent. i checked on it here and there are almost no posts of bad side effects vs the thousands of posts for advair.
so i started on the lowest dose of flovent, 2 puffs 2 times a day and now i am at 1 puff 2 times a day
my 85 yr old father has been on asthma medication since his 40's and for the past few years has been on advair. when he read these posts, he took himself off and now just carries his rescue inhaler in case. he says he's had a couple of minor bouts of chest tightness but he's relaxed and it passed

Advair is over kill (bad choice of words) for the majority of patients with asthma. It doesn't sound like it here on this bulletin board but most people don't experience serious side effects with Advair. Advair contains two medicines. One a corticosteroid to control inflammation in the lungs and a LABA which is a long acting broncho dialiator (much longer acting form of albuterol). It is the LABA which causes most of the side effects.

Most asthma medications only contain the corticosteroid component. So eventhough most patients don't experience these serious side effects it is prudent to start off with the "lesser artillery".for anyone who has mild to moderate asthma a medicine . Your doctor should try Asmanex, Asmanex, Q-Var , Flovent (same steroid as in Advair) or some of the other corticosteroids out there. Advair does so much promotion and advertising that far too many doctors prescribe it when a single component medicine is usually enough. However in all fairness as I mentioned it works well for the majority of patients. Just overkill.