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Xoponex vs. Albuterol

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Skye

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I had some very good luck this week. I have had a LOT of trouble trying to figure out what to cycle on my OFF AZLI weeks. I was getting very SOB using Tobi so I started Colistin this week and was having the SAME problem. It was so noticeable and so difficult for me. I could not keep up with my family at the mall and that never happens to me.

I always do albuterol before and I have tried doing a puff of albuterol afterwards or spacing the abx away from my other treatments or doing it different times of day!! I have tried everything.....then.......came Monday. I RAN out of albuterol quite by accident. I had some Xoponex from a year or so ago that I use to use but changed for money reasons and hadn't noticed much of a difference. I used 2 vials of mid strength Xoponex before the Colistin and BINGO no SOB!!! I feel perfectly normal now with only some very mild tightness.

What the heck?? Why on earth would that have made the difference??? I am just wondering if there was some chemicals in the albuterol that reacted with the med that my body was not crazy about. I don't get that one at all; but, my running out of medication solved a year long problem for me. The one time that it paid to be irresponsible!
 
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Skye

New member
I had some very good luck this week. I have had a LOT of trouble trying to figure out what to cycle on my OFF AZLI weeks. I was getting very SOB using Tobi so I started Colistin this week and was having the SAME problem. It was so noticeable and so difficult for me. I could not keep up with my family at the mall and that never happens to me.

I always do albuterol before and I have tried doing a puff of albuterol afterwards or spacing the abx away from my other treatments or doing it different times of day!! I have tried everything.....then.......came Monday. I RAN out of albuterol quite by accident. I had some Xoponex from a year or so ago that I use to use but changed for money reasons and hadn't noticed much of a difference. I used 2 vials of mid strength Xoponex before the Colistin and BINGO no SOB!!! I feel perfectly normal now with only some very mild tightness.

What the heck?? Why on earth would that have made the difference??? I am just wondering if there was some chemicals in the albuterol that reacted with the med that my body was not crazy about. I don't get that one at all; but, my running out of medication solved a year long problem for me. The one time that it paid to be irresponsible!
 
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Skye

New member
I had some very good luck this week. I have had a LOT of trouble trying to figure out what to cycle on my OFF AZLI weeks. I was getting very SOB using Tobi so I started Colistin this week and was having the SAME problem. It was so noticeable and so difficult for me. I could not keep up with my family at the mall and that never happens to me.

I always do albuterol before and I have tried doing a puff of albuterol afterwards or spacing the abx away from my other treatments or doing it different times of day!! I have tried everything.....then.......came Monday. I RAN out of albuterol quite by accident. I had some Xoponex from a year or so ago that I use to use but changed for money reasons and hadn't noticed much of a difference. I used 2 vials of mid strength Xoponex before the Colistin and BINGO no SOB!!! I feel perfectly normal now with only some very mild tightness.

What the heck?? Why on earth would that have made the difference??? I am just wondering if there was some chemicals in the albuterol that reacted with the med that my body was not crazy about. I don't get that one at all; but, my running out of medication solved a year long problem for me. The one time that it paid to be irresponsible!
 
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Skye

New member
I had some very good luck this week. I have had a LOT of trouble trying to figure out what to cycle on my OFF AZLI weeks. I was getting very SOB using Tobi so I started Colistin this week and was having the SAME problem. It was so noticeable and so difficult for me. I could not keep up with my family at the mall and that never happens to me.

I always do albuterol before and I have tried doing a puff of albuterol afterwards or spacing the abx away from my other treatments or doing it different times of day!! I have tried everything.....then.......came Monday. I RAN out of albuterol quite by accident. I had some Xoponex from a year or so ago that I use to use but changed for money reasons and hadn't noticed much of a difference. I used 2 vials of mid strength Xoponex before the Colistin and BINGO no SOB!!! I feel perfectly normal now with only some very mild tightness.

What the heck?? Why on earth would that have made the difference??? I am just wondering if there was some chemicals in the albuterol that reacted with the med that my body was not crazy about. I don't get that one at all; but, my running out of medication solved a year long problem for me. The one time that it paid to be irresponsible!
 
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Skye

New member
I had some very good luck this week. I have had a LOT of trouble trying to figure out what to cycle on my OFF AZLI weeks. I was getting very SOB using Tobi so I started Colistin this week and was having the SAME problem. It was so noticeable and so difficult for me. I could not keep up with my family at the mall and that never happens to me.
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<br />I always do albuterol before and I have tried doing a puff of albuterol afterwards or spacing the abx away from my other treatments or doing it different times of day!! I have tried everything.....then.......came Monday. I RAN out of albuterol quite by accident. I had some Xoponex from a year or so ago that I use to use but changed for money reasons and hadn't noticed much of a difference. I used 2 vials of mid strength Xoponex before the Colistin and BINGO no SOB!!! I feel perfectly normal now with only some very mild tightness.
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<br />What the heck?? Why on earth would that have made the difference??? I am just wondering if there was some chemicals in the albuterol that reacted with the med that my body was not crazy about. I don't get that one at all; but, my running out of medication solved a year long problem for me. The one time that it paid to be irresponsible!
 
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Nightwriter

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Isn't it great when you stumble on things yourself? I love when that happens. The Albuterol puff has propellant as does any puff, which can cause asthma. Also, my doctor thinks Xopenenx is a much more effective drug. It took me all long time to agree to switch because it cost more. The nebulized Xopenex also lasts 8 hours as opposed to Albuterol's four which I used think only lasted three anyway.

There was a thread recently and people had different preferences. It sounds like you found the right one for you. I use Foridil which is a powder (takem sorta like the way you take Pulmocort --not in a neb)--asthma that has no propellant which lasts 12 hours and I only use the Xopnenex puff before exercise or in emergency because there is no other choice. You'd think they would make asthma medicines without a propellant that causes asthma!.
 
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Nightwriter

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Isn't it great when you stumble on things yourself? I love when that happens. The Albuterol puff has propellant as does any puff, which can cause asthma. Also, my doctor thinks Xopenenx is a much more effective drug. It took me all long time to agree to switch because it cost more. The nebulized Xopenex also lasts 8 hours as opposed to Albuterol's four which I used think only lasted three anyway.

There was a thread recently and people had different preferences. It sounds like you found the right one for you. I use Foridil which is a powder (takem sorta like the way you take Pulmocort --not in a neb)--asthma that has no propellant which lasts 12 hours and I only use the Xopnenex puff before exercise or in emergency because there is no other choice. You'd think they would make asthma medicines without a propellant that causes asthma!.
 
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Nightwriter

New member
Isn't it great when you stumble on things yourself? I love when that happens. The Albuterol puff has propellant as does any puff, which can cause asthma. Also, my doctor thinks Xopenenx is a much more effective drug. It took me all long time to agree to switch because it cost more. The nebulized Xopenex also lasts 8 hours as opposed to Albuterol's four which I used think only lasted three anyway.

There was a thread recently and people had different preferences. It sounds like you found the right one for you. I use Foridil which is a powder (takem sorta like the way you take Pulmocort --not in a neb)--asthma that has no propellant which lasts 12 hours and I only use the Xopnenex puff before exercise or in emergency because there is no other choice. You'd think they would make asthma medicines without a propellant that causes asthma!.
 
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Nightwriter

New member
Isn't it great when you stumble on things yourself? I love when that happens. The Albuterol puff has propellant as does any puff, which can cause asthma. Also, my doctor thinks Xopenenx is a much more effective drug. It took me all long time to agree to switch because it cost more. The nebulized Xopenex also lasts 8 hours as opposed to Albuterol's four which I used think only lasted three anyway.

There was a thread recently and people had different preferences. It sounds like you found the right one for you. I use Foridil which is a powder (takem sorta like the way you take Pulmocort --not in a neb)--asthma that has no propellant which lasts 12 hours and I only use the Xopnenex puff before exercise or in emergency because there is no other choice. You'd think they would make asthma medicines without a propellant that causes asthma!.
 
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Nightwriter

New member
Isn't it great when you stumble on things yourself? I love when that happens. The Albuterol puff has propellant as does any puff, which can cause asthma. Also, my doctor thinks Xopenenx is a much more effective drug. It took me all long time to agree to switch because it cost more. The nebulized Xopenex also lasts 8 hours as opposed to Albuterol's four which I used think only lasted three anyway.
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<br />There was a thread recently and people had different preferences. It sounds like you found the right one for you. I use Foridil which is a powder (takem sorta like the way you take Pulmocort --not in a neb)--asthma that has no propellant which lasts 12 hours and I only use the Xopnenex puff before exercise or in emergency because there is no other choice. You'd think they would make asthma medicines without a propellant that causes asthma!.
 
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semperfiohana

Guest
i don't mean to jack the topic, but i was wondering if there is a difference in proventil and ventolin? i read that proventil is a generic of ventolin. i ask this because when i was home for a visit my allergies were really bad and i didn't have an inhaler with me and i emailed my doc and she called in a script for ventolin. I feel like the ventolin works better than the proventil. has any one experience this?
 
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semperfiohana

Guest
i don't mean to jack the topic, but i was wondering if there is a difference in proventil and ventolin? i read that proventil is a generic of ventolin. i ask this because when i was home for a visit my allergies were really bad and i didn't have an inhaler with me and i emailed my doc and she called in a script for ventolin. I feel like the ventolin works better than the proventil. has any one experience this?
 
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semperfiohana

Guest
i don't mean to jack the topic, but i was wondering if there is a difference in proventil and ventolin? i read that proventil is a generic of ventolin. i ask this because when i was home for a visit my allergies were really bad and i didn't have an inhaler with me and i emailed my doc and she called in a script for ventolin. I feel like the ventolin works better than the proventil. has any one experience this?
 
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semperfiohana

Guest
i don't mean to jack the topic, but i was wondering if there is a difference in proventil and ventolin? i read that proventil is a generic of ventolin. i ask this because when i was home for a visit my allergies were really bad and i didn't have an inhaler with me and i emailed my doc and she called in a script for ventolin. I feel like the ventolin works better than the proventil. has any one experience this?
 
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semperfiohana

Guest
i don't mean to jack the topic, but i was wondering if there is a difference in proventil and ventolin? i read that proventil is a generic of ventolin. i ask this because when i was home for a visit my allergies were really bad and i didn't have an inhaler with me and i emailed my doc and she called in a script for ventolin. I feel like the ventolin works better than the proventil. has any one experience this?
 
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Nightwriter

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Candace,

You know I really don't think most things are our imagination. If you think one works better for you than something else -- it does.

The generic is Albuterol. Proventil is the brand name made by Schering Plough. Ventolin is the brand name made by Glaxco Smithkline. When I was taking albuterol, my doctor really didn't want me to take the generic -- she said there was a difference.

There could be a difference in the way they make the inhalers that shoots it out in a different way. There can be a difference in the propellant or other chemicals. Also it is important to use a spacer with inhalers, because otherwise 80 percent gets deposited in your mouth and doesn't even reach the lungs.
 
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Nightwriter

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Candace,

You know I really don't think most things are our imagination. If you think one works better for you than something else -- it does.

The generic is Albuterol. Proventil is the brand name made by Schering Plough. Ventolin is the brand name made by Glaxco Smithkline. When I was taking albuterol, my doctor really didn't want me to take the generic -- she said there was a difference.

There could be a difference in the way they make the inhalers that shoots it out in a different way. There can be a difference in the propellant or other chemicals. Also it is important to use a spacer with inhalers, because otherwise 80 percent gets deposited in your mouth and doesn't even reach the lungs.
 
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Nightwriter

New member
Candace,

You know I really don't think most things are our imagination. If you think one works better for you than something else -- it does.

The generic is Albuterol. Proventil is the brand name made by Schering Plough. Ventolin is the brand name made by Glaxco Smithkline. When I was taking albuterol, my doctor really didn't want me to take the generic -- she said there was a difference.

There could be a difference in the way they make the inhalers that shoots it out in a different way. There can be a difference in the propellant or other chemicals. Also it is important to use a spacer with inhalers, because otherwise 80 percent gets deposited in your mouth and doesn't even reach the lungs.
 
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Nightwriter

New member
Candace,

You know I really don't think most things are our imagination. If you think one works better for you than something else -- it does.

The generic is Albuterol. Proventil is the brand name made by Schering Plough. Ventolin is the brand name made by Glaxco Smithkline. When I was taking albuterol, my doctor really didn't want me to take the generic -- she said there was a difference.

There could be a difference in the way they make the inhalers that shoots it out in a different way. There can be a difference in the propellant or other chemicals. Also it is important to use a spacer with inhalers, because otherwise 80 percent gets deposited in your mouth and doesn't even reach the lungs.
 
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Nightwriter

New member
Candace,
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<br />You know I really don't think most things are our imagination. If you think one works better for you than something else -- it does.
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<br />The generic is Albuterol. Proventil is the brand name made by Schering Plough. Ventolin is the brand name made by Glaxco Smithkline. When I was taking albuterol, my doctor really didn't want me to take the generic -- she said there was a difference.
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<br />There could be a difference in the way they make the inhalers that shoots it out in a different way. There can be a difference in the propellant or other chemicals. Also it is important to use a spacer with inhalers, because otherwise 80 percent gets deposited in your mouth and doesn't even reach the lungs.
 
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