hello everybody, i am one among you.on...

hello everybody, i am one among you.one who silently suffered from the side effects of inhaler for asthma and one who prides on doing years of research in the internet about various issues concerning the disease. i cant say i am a good researcher though coz i found this site after more than 2 yrs of active internet browsing.many things have changed in these years.i tried my hand at few alternatives. to cut long story short, i am asthmatic since 8 yrs.used inhalers intermittently for most of that time.i used corticosteroids(initially budisonide and later Salmeterol+Fluticasone which is same as advair).i live in india.here the brand name for avair i seroflo.im 23 now. ok i started getting side effects from year 2000.firstly i had rhinits.rhintis is another allergic disease.may not be a side effect but i have a very strange rhinitis.i just have a stubborn nose block 24 hrs a day and the nose block wud start immediatley after i take the inhaler.it happens the moment my lungs start feeling good from the inhaler.usually rhintis patients have itching runny nose or any other accompanying symptom and wud get releif from antihistamines.but i wudnt get.docs precribed a steroid spray for my nose. then i had throat problem.frequent thraot infection and then narrowing of throat making it diificult to swallow.i reported it to the doc in 2001 and was sent to ent doctor for consultation.he sadi everythin is normal. then i started having frequent urination,eye dryness and blurring vision sometimes,oral thrush,chronic diarrhoea,dizziness an light headed ness,diabetes like symptoms ,weakness,white patches on cheeks,hairloss,cramps in hands and legs,fluid retention etc. all through this time i gained weight.i became a puffed up adult from a very thin guy.i have stretch marks near my neck and my face mooned up.well i also have a right bundle branch block in my heart .it many not be a direct symptom.and its normal in it that it has no known symptoms(its not a disease its present in healthy hearts too,it is nothing to be worried about) when i went to th doctor with my side effects and the internet print out of cushings disease(which has same symptoms as my side effects) and candidiasis ,he made me undergo diabetis tests and hiv tests.from those results i was directed to a psychriatiast. i decided to go big in the internet.i joined many groups ,read much and still i cudnot figure what i had.i still was taking medication for asthma.i thought all my symptoms are of asthma and rhintis.i decided to tkae allergy shots.in inida theres only 1 place to get them .i had to travel for 2 days in train to get them.this happened a year ago.and the shots so far did some good. still i had the side effects i changed docotor.he wud write down my case as known asthmatic rhintis and depression.he was exactly like the previous one.i was ake to see psychriatist.i stopped him too.this happened 6 months before. by this time i was using acidophilus to stop my diarrhoe and read a lot about homeopathy. i didnt beleive in homeoapthy.but i tried it.its been 4 months so far.by this time i know what i have.i.e i know where from my symptoms have come.in homeopathy all these symptoms are actually well known.my homeo docotr said he had seen many lik me.but he said its a long proces atleast 6 months.until now i have seen that homeopathy will atleast stop those severe bouts of asthma attack and does some changes to most of the symptoms.well dizziness and head symptoms are firt to go away.yet i didnt have major releif from homeoapathy.but one thing is for sure,its not what i intially thought. as of now i am able to control my asthma with homepathy and i am tkaing allergy shots.i do use the bronchilator inhaler soem times.but my stubborn nose nose block wudnt change much. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- well i also pride myselves as a good writer.i wrote down the following piece when i was utterly helpless.ie when i was aske to see psychriatist and i didnt know where from i had so many debileating symptoms. -------------------------------------------------------------------- I entered into a region of darkness. Nothing seemed to me. I turned around, everything appeared black. I tried to look through it, yet nothing appeared. I stood still and quiet. I stopped looking through. I saw I was surrounded by darkness. Just black darkness. I would wait now. I was getting very weak. I thought I should sit now. But the darkness never changed. I was sitting on the floor endlessly. I thought in my selves endlessly. I lost track of the time. I only waited. I was keen to catch anything.I moaned. I collapsed on the floor. Finally I heard something. I could hear some voices. Some familiar voices. They were many. They were all talking about me. They were forming opinions on me. I raised my voice. I told them how everything around me is. Some light began to appear. Their image began to evolve from darkness. The image was very blurred. Slowly it got clearer. The images of the persons who were talking began to take shape. Their images were roughly formed. I saw my parents, friends, relatives and even people I know but never spoke to. But they weren't looking at me. They seemed to have not noticed me. I got up and spoke to them. I told them everything. I cried. I shouted.I tried everyhting. The image faded away. Darkness was again filling up. I can only listen to them now. They were talking about me. They were forming opinions on me. They were talking very loudly. I couldn't bear the noise. I looked at the darkness. I fell on the floor. I realized there is only darkness now. Just black darkness. ---------------------------------------------------------------------