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I started taking Advair a few years ago because my doctor suggest...

Posted at 5:53 PM on Jan 29, 2009 by boycottmeds, #38486
I started taking Advair a few years ago because my doctor suggested it. I noticed after taking for a bit and then stiopping, I would get ill and have bronchitis. After a few episodes of this, I started taking it regularly. I was supposed to be taking it 2x a day but only took it at night. After about a few months of regualry taking it at night, I forgot to take it one evening and woke up in the middle of the night with the worst attack ever. I started testing this with on and off uses of the advair to see what the relationship was and one for one, if I did not take the medication, I had an attack. I believe that the regular use of Advair caused my body to become dependant on it. I wish I had never taken it in the first place. I am now having asthma attacks 1 to 2 times a day and before Advair, once every 3 months or so.
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Reply 9 months ago on Jan 29, 2009 by propsguy, #16559

i've been on advair too for years, the lowest dose and i only ever took it once a day- frankly, because i was too cheap to go through one of those things a month! i tried to get off and every time, i would get wheezy after about 2 weeks
recently, i've gone to a kinesthesiologist who taught me some breathing exercises and put me on some supplements and i stepped down to the lowest dose of flovent- there are hardly any adverse side effect posts on this site for flovent and many for advair. flovent is a 2 puffs twice a day medication and i am already down to one puff once a day. so i've been off advair since christmas with no problems so far and i am backing down off flovent. in a couple of months, i hope to be drug free

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