Comments | asthma_people: Flare-up and medication doesn't help

rainbow_goddess in asthma_people

Flare-up and medication doesn't help

Nov 18, 2011 18:30

For the last few days I've been coughing a lot more than usual, and my rescue inhaler doesn't seem to help. I increased the dose of my preventer (Advair), which my GP had advised me to do a few months ago, but that doesn't seem to have made a difference. I took my rescue inhaler twice this morning (two puffs each time) but I was still coughing ( Read more... )

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maystone November 19 2011, 03:07:42 UTC

Go the walk-in clinic. It can't hurt, and it may help. You might need a short dose of prednisone to knock out the irritation.

Good luck!

rainbow_goddess November 19 2011, 05:12:02 UTC

Prednisone? I hope not. I have juvenile diabetes, and any kind of steroid would just knock my blood sugars through the ceiling and give me new problems to deal with. :-(

wrin November 21 2011, 20:33:03 UTC

Breathing > blood sugar. It's also only five days. Upvotes for Prednisone!

foundunicorn November 19 2011, 06:22:29 UTC

Are you sure that it your asthma, not a back of the nose or throat thing?

rainbow_goddess November 19 2011, 06:33:24 UTC

Yes, I'm sure. It's not a tickle at the back of my throat. It comes from down in my chest.

foundunicorn November 19 2011, 06:42:14 UTC

If I get a cold, the flem running down my throat will clog my lungs.
But It's mostly a good idea to be seen at some place like a urgent care, or a minute clinic (I don't know what they call them there)

rainbow_goddess November 19 2011, 07:05:03 UTC

I don't have any phlegm, and my sinuses are more clear than they are normally, even. In terms of urgent care or minute clinics, my choices are the hospital emergency room or a walk-in clinic. A walk-in clinic will handle anything that doesn't need an emergency room, whether it's a bloody nose or a broken arm.