Advair HFA and gaining weight

I have a daughter that is 12 yrs old. she has been on advair for about a month and half. she has been having dizzeness,bloody nose, gaining weight and she is also taking singular and xopenex and albuterol neb. i to would like to get her off of all these meds. i also don't feel that advair is any help. she stills wheezes almost every day. i like to thank you people with all the advice you have put on this page. i am now going to take her OFF of ADVAIR.

My husband started using Advair 8 months ago for mild asthma symptoms. He was taking the largest dose for the first month, and has been tapered down to the smallest dose twice a day now. It has really helped him breathe easier, but he has gained 40 lbs since he started, and is continuing to gain about 4-5 lbs each month. He has been trying to watch what he eats, but he just keeps gaining weight. I've talked to his doctors about it, they say that there is not enough steroid in Advair to be causing this, but I find this hard to believe. He has never had a problem with his weight before.

I have been on Advair for three months now after the Albuterol inhaler didn't seem to be working. Since then, I have noticed I am gaining weight. I have an active job and my diet is healthy (vegetarian). In six years my weight has hardly fluctuated. Aside from weight gain, the most disturbing side effect has by insomnia. I am simply not tired and when I do sleep, not matter for how long, I always feel tired. I did a search when it dawned on me that the only thing I have changed in the last three months has been the Advair.

My 12 y.o. daughter has has first hand experience with weight gain on Advair. About 3 years ago, 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 weight, 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 that it 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's been off the Advair for about 6 months now (uses albuterol as needed) but cannot reverse her weight gain no matter what!

My husband and I have been looking for 3 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!

my daughter and husband are both on advair she is 7years old i have notice a great amount of her gaining weight also her breast are starting to form she is only 7 yrs old could the steroids in the advair be causing her to develope much quickly than she is supose to she is a child that is over 100 pounds at the age of 7. thanks, steve & nichole hunt.

I am taking 250/50 for about 2 to 3 years now. My allergist says the side effects im having are a direct result of the advair. However, my asthma is so bad I cant discontinue it.
I have to deal with:
-sinus congesion(taking flonase)
-IBS (taking some other med)
-migraines 2 a week (taking topomax and relpax)
-sleepy and tired
-gaining weight even though I excerise
-wounds will not heal causing scaring

hello,
I am so lucky I found this site. I have been taking advair 250 twice a day for roughly 3 years now. Like so many here I was amazed at how rapdily my asthma seemed a problem of the past. However I have noticed for some time now that my hair is thinning (I am the only one in my family), I am gaining weight, i am depressed and now I have to see an osteopath because my upper chest/sturnum is constantly in pain, and the osteopath believes it is due to the intake of Advair. This site is a big eye opener. Got to find another way to cure Asthma.

**Sorry about my previous post. I cut and paste from Word and it changes some of the characters for some reason and makes it hard to read. Here is the corrected version.**

I started taking Advair 250/50 (I started out with a higher dose for 2 or 3 weeks) on October 9, 2004 after a weekend stay at the hospital. Before this time, I was not taking any medication except for my Albuterol inhaler, which I took mostly at night. I often have a worse time with asthma during the winter, but a visit to the emergency room has only happened 3 times in my life.

Anyway, after leaving the hospital, I noticed right away that my eyesight was blurry. My husband joked that it was because I was used to the close walls in the hospital and that I wasn't used to seeing far away. Well, I thought nothing more of it until I found this website. I am still not seeing as well and today (11-19-04) I stepped on the scale and noticed that I had gained 10 pounds. :( I weighed 120 before the hospital ( I am 31 years old and 5'2). I am not happy.

I have not wheezed even a squeak since taking Advair and have not touched the Albuterol. Is it worth it?

I have also had a few minor headaches, my face broke out once, I had one night where I couldn't sleep because of intense heartburn (I have never experienced this before!), and my stomach seems puffy.

Like someone else said, I think I will stop taking it when winter is over. I really love being able to do aerobics and not having to take my Albuterol. I don't wheeze at all after exercise now, but what exactly is the point of exercising if I am gaining weight?? :p

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I also wanted to express to anyone that ever wants to try this drug. At first, it worked great for me, and I never had to use my albuterol inhalor. Then, after about 3 weeks, I noticed the weight gain. I couldn't figure out why I was gaining weight, when I NEVER have had a weight problem. I am 39 years old and I have gained about 10-12 pounds in about 3 months. I constantly look pregnant. I cannot seem to get rid of the weight gain either. I work out every single day to fight off the water gain. Nothing I do seems to matter, I cannot get the weight off. I wish I knew what to do to get this drug out of my system. I stopped taking it when I called my Dr. on it.
Now, I have constant neck and arm pain everday. I have alot of headaches. I get sweat attacks, and then stay clammy. Shooting pains go down my arms midlength....every single day. I have never been in so much pain DAILY, as I am now. I can only pray that it will leave my system soon and I can feel better.

i AM A HEART BY-PASS PATIENT A DIABETIC AND BLADDER CANCER PATIENT RECENLY ABOT 2 MONTHS NOW I SRARTED ON ADVAIR 500/50 NOW MY SLEEPIUNG IS WORSE, ARTHRITIC TYPE PAIN IS WORSE TYHIS IS NEW AND I HAVE GENERAL CRAMPS ALL OVER BODY WHEN I SNEEZ OR WHATEVER AND SEVERE MUSCLE CRAMPS IN LOWER LEGS SO THAT SORENESS MAKE WALKING VERY DIFICULT. i AM ALSO GAINING WEIGHT ABOUT 20 POUNDS NOW. i THINK THAT THIS IS ALL MOSTLY BECAUSE OF THE ADVAIR. NLT

I'm in London, Ky taking Advair on & off for almost 12 months..(I'm reluctant to take anything) Recently though I started taking it twice a day for the last few weeks because doctor says it's so great & I should follow prescription, I've noticed 5-10lb weight gain, and itching all over, sleeplessness, and a small rash on my left arm. I was also recently trying to figure out why I was gaining weight especially in stomach area, I'm 35 & never ever had a weight gain since high school, & have not changed diet. After reading this site, it goes in the trash. And things are adding up. I had no idea Advair had only been approved since 2000 by the FDA, and it's my understanding it's not approved by them for children under 12. I also have a friend who has a 6 year old child who had tonsuls removed, after surgery he went from a very skinny child to chubby.. parents said it was the surgery that gave him the bigger appetite.. after reading this site.. I'm thinking Advair is the culprit and will be showing them what I've found here so they can take their child off this drug immediately.

I have been on Advair for 7 months. I started on 500, then went to 250 and now am trying 100. I have gained 30 lbs - even with going to the gym regularly and eating less than 1500 calories a day. When I tell my dtr I am gaining weight from Advair he laughs and tells me to eat less. And that any other symptoms I have are not from this medicine. I had also found a lump in my calf by my ankle and had to have an MRI. They said it is a 'limpoma', a lump attributable to steriods. So now I have to have that cut out and will not be able to run for quite some time, which means more weight gain. I don't know what to do. Since I have started taking it, I have never been able to breathe better. And I have had severe ashtma for years. When I try to wean myself off, I immediately have a bad attack. I want to stop taking it, but don't know how to get off. Even switching to the lower dosage this week has made me lethargic, dizzy and barely able to keep awake. What a nightmare. My body is so bloated and heavy, I can't fit into any clothes. And I can barely run more than 2 miles without my chest burning. This is from someone who has run a marathon before no problem. We need a new solution for asthma - Advair is NOT it.

Gained 15 pounds since I started taking advair. I was told no weight gain or side effects. I was dieting and losing weight up until I started with advair. Still excercise but still gaining weight.

Did help, but I stopped taking it because of weight gain