Consumption is so much sexier on stage.

[ladybretagne]

Went to the doctor today, since I have come down with my annual "cough appropriate only for consumptive heroines in 19th C. drama". An hour wait in urgent care, FOUR prescriptions and $60 in copays later, I am home and medicated. I am also marginally hating the government because apparently the generic Albuterol inhaler (that has CFCs) is no

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[kalen9]

? HFA inhalers aren't any less effective. Changes in effectiveness are due to patients taking them wrong, since the medication isn't any different, just the way it's delivered.
My mother just bought like six for me before the changeover, since I go through a fair number of them (... mostly by losing them) and she didn't want to pay the increased price. ^_^;

[ladybretagne]

Since HFA is a sulfited form of Ethanol, anyone with sensitivities to sulfites or corn can have issues with it. Luckily for me it seems to work fine, but there are people that have run into problems.

I really wish I had known before hand about the switch over (I only need Albuterol about once or twice a year usually, so I don't have to buy new inhalers very often). I would have gotten a refill prescription from my doctor and stocked up!

[islandgator]

perhaps you could get a swooning couch too?

[ladybretagne]

I think I might have to! ;-)

[fairestcat]

Albuterol is about $45 without insurance these days, which is a considerable increase over when it cost about $15, and I don't care how many pharmacists and doctors try to tell me it works just as well, the HFA version is NOT as effective. It just doesn't propel as well, so when I'm really not breathing well already, I can't suck it as far down into my lungs as it needs to be to do its job.

[ladybretagne]

It does seem to propel less forcefully, which hasn't really seemed to be a problem for me yet, but then I'm also on a DPI steroid and two cough suppressants on top of the Albuterol, so it's hard to know what's doing what. The fact that what I was expecting to be $15 worth of prescriptions ended up costing me more than three times that still boggles my mind though.