Box Factory Whoo
So after the fiasco-ness of last week, I had an appointment with my family doctor today.
She was like "so... what the heck happened last week?" O_o And all I could think was shouldn't YOU be telling ME?
Oh well. Anyway, back story: I've had really bad asthma for all my life, as well as allergies that occasionally affect it. From the time I was little until around the year 2000, I was on Salbutomol as a rescue inhaler, and wasn't on any sort of preventative medication at all. Generally, the result of this was that my lung capacity was less than half of what it was supposed to be (between 250 and 300 on the peak meter.) I literally couldn't do anything without going into an asthma attack, and the doctor wouldn't listen to me about how bad things really were.
So! In January of 2000, I ended up in the hospital because of my lungs, where the doctor on duty checked me out, informed me that I had an infection in my lungs that (as far as he could tell) I'd had for at least nine or ten months (he gave me antibiotics to clear that out), and then prescribed me Combivent as a rescue inhaler.
Dude. The Combivent worked awesomely. So I went home, made an appointment with my own doctor, and brought Mom with me when I went to see her-- she listens to Mom, you see. After much discussion and a few in-office tests, she decided to switch me from Salbutomol to Combivent on a permanent basis, and then put me on Advair as a twice-daily preventative.
For the first time in my life, I could BREATHE. It rocked.
Then, in 2002, I was told that Combivent was being taken out of the Canadian market, and would no longer be available-- I could stay on Advair, but I needed a different rescue inhaler again. And instead of finding a new one, she put me back on Salbutomol. =_=;; Which doesn't work for me! ARGH.
At the hospital last week, they gave me Combivent, which kind of confused me (since I was told it was no longer available in Canada), so I asked about that today; she insists she never told me that Combivent was going off the market. Whatever. She put me back on it.
THANK YOU.
Now I have a rescue inhaler that works. <3
She was like "so... what the heck happened last week?" O_o And all I could think was shouldn't YOU be telling ME?
Oh well. Anyway, back story: I've had really bad asthma for all my life, as well as allergies that occasionally affect it. From the time I was little until around the year 2000, I was on Salbutomol as a rescue inhaler, and wasn't on any sort of preventative medication at all. Generally, the result of this was that my lung capacity was less than half of what it was supposed to be (between 250 and 300 on the peak meter.) I literally couldn't do anything without going into an asthma attack, and the doctor wouldn't listen to me about how bad things really were.
So! In January of 2000, I ended up in the hospital because of my lungs, where the doctor on duty checked me out, informed me that I had an infection in my lungs that (as far as he could tell) I'd had for at least nine or ten months (he gave me antibiotics to clear that out), and then prescribed me Combivent as a rescue inhaler.
Dude. The Combivent worked awesomely. So I went home, made an appointment with my own doctor, and brought Mom with me when I went to see her-- she listens to Mom, you see. After much discussion and a few in-office tests, she decided to switch me from Salbutomol to Combivent on a permanent basis, and then put me on Advair as a twice-daily preventative.
For the first time in my life, I could BREATHE. It rocked.
Then, in 2002, I was told that Combivent was being taken out of the Canadian market, and would no longer be available-- I could stay on Advair, but I needed a different rescue inhaler again. And instead of finding a new one, she put me back on Salbutomol. =_=;; Which doesn't work for me! ARGH.
At the hospital last week, they gave me Combivent, which kind of confused me (since I was told it was no longer available in Canada), so I asked about that today; she insists she never told me that Combivent was going off the market. Whatever. She put me back on it.
THANK YOU.
Now I have a rescue inhaler that works. <3