Fostair Asthma Control?

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At my annual check, they have suggested changing from a preventer and a reliever inhaler to a single "Fostair" treatment inhaler. Anyone else use them? All was fine with my old ones, so I don't know why the change???
 
Last year mine were also changed to a single Luforbec. I just did a Google search and Luforbec and Fostair are almost identical ingredients and considered equivalent but Luforbec is more cost effective (Cheaper?). I have found it more convenient to have just one inhaler.

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I've been on fostair for a while now, as a preventer I find it good, but if i need to use it as a reliever it's not so good (to me anyway). After a chest infection last year, my asthma stopped being so well controlled and the nurse decided to go old school and prescribed a blue inhaler for me to take before my fostair morning and night, to open up my Airways before the steroid inhaler. Touch wood, it's working well.
 
I spent years with two inhalers, preventer and reliever.

Several years back we changed to one inhaler, the Symbicort Turbohaler and I've been happy with it since.

The technology has moved from pressurised "blow it out" to non-pressurised "suck it out" so the technology has responded to the whole CFC issue.

I have no issue with National Health Service medical providers shopping around for the cheaper product

At the same time I think that increasing age and decreasing levels of aerobic exercise activity (I no longer do step aerobics, submerged swimming, rarely get out on a pushbike and my strenuous catamaran racing days are now in the past) quite possibly made it easier for me to adapt. But I still have an annual asthma review where I can express how I'm doing and I'm confident that if the twice-daily symbicort wasn't doing the trick, we'd make a change of regime.

Hope this helps.
 
Tried a few over the years and its Seretide (combined preventative and reliever) all the way for me.
They gave me a cheaper generic version once, but it didn't work as well.
Also tried that with my Sumitriptan, cluster headache came, took one and did absolutely nothing.
Nil side effects either so knew it wasn't the same, always get aches and a sore throat.
No arguments when I strongly suggested I wanted Imigran again in future.
These copies are clearly not the same despite some saying they are.
Wonder if they are placebos and its to see if you actually need the meds.
 
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All OK so far, apart from the sensation of having a mouth full of grit, after using it (the powder medication, no doubt). It does say, to rinse the mouth after use. I hope that the "grit" can diffuse through my lungs, or a I am back to square one!!!
 
I use a triple dose dry powder inhaler every morning, I was told by the nurse if I have a lot of powder landing in my mouth I wasn’t sucking hard enough, or it was coating the back of my throat it was sucking too hard, I have to inhale the powder and then hold my breath for 30 seconds, not an easy task some mornings.
I was given a dummy inhaler to practice with, it would play a note when air passed through at the correct rate, it did help even if the wife got annoyed by the noise as I used it, not that I ever did it just to get on her nerves.
 
UPDATE- It works! I hadn't realised, but asthma had been causing excessive mucus overnight, leading to occasional vomiting (it seems that it is a recently studied condition of asthma related nausea!). I had put it down to stomach problems but since taking the new asthma treatment, no further problems. I thought that it was coincidence at first but after missing a dose overnight, I awoke feeling chesty, sickly and nauseous again. I used the inhaler and within minutes, I was fine. It gets the thumbs up from me! :)
 
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Further UPDATE - I am fed up of having a sore mouth and throat and I am convinced that it is due to the "gritty" deposits from the Fostair. I have tried the advised rinse and gargle after use advice but it persists. I have read that the stuff can cause oral thrush and I would guess that this is what I am getting! The "advice" from the asthma nurse was that if I did have a problem with sore throat/mouth, they could give me extra meds to solve it!!! Are they on commission? I'm going to ask to go back on my brown and blue inhalers as they worked fine for years. So well, that I used to forget to take them (probably why I used to get the overnight problems!). Updates to follow!
 
When I was on brown inhalers they tried to switch me to the Fostair one; I tried it for 2 months and my asthma became really bad, so much so that they had to put me on to the purple Seretide 250 microgram one. The Fostairs are terrible.
 
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