FDA Panel to Scrutinize Safety of Some Asthma Treatments

The nation's drug regulator is asking its advisers to consider the safety of some drugs used to treat asthma in children and adults.

[mackey]

why don't we have a cure for Asthma yet...it seems like it should be an easy one.

[vanisha]

considering how long some of these drugs have been on the market, i wonder why their safety was not looked at more closely before.

[BettyB]

I'm an allergy sufferer. Asthma is something I've always been grateful to have avoided.

[Janet]

Asthma attacks are a scary thing to witness. Seems like we should have better drugs/treatment available by now.

[Run]

Inhalers can be good for long distance running. Other asthma drugs...I'm not sure about.

[Tarry]

Kind of terrifying to think that the medicine you use for your own well-being could actually end up hurting you in the end.

[buddy guy]

Almost every medicine can hurt you.

[rena]

a friend of mine bought the new asthma meds and they're more expensive. it's a tough thing to have.

[Yalli]

It's disturbing that they're just looking at this now.

[Lenny]

My mom takes Serevent for her asthma. I'm going to tell her to ask her doctor what this means.
I used to have asthma but I grew out of it, I think running helped a lot.

[Miranda]

I used to take Ventolin for my asthma but I think it went away as I started to exercise more. My mother takes Serevent and hearing that doctors are saying it's unsafe is definitely worrying. She's been taking it a long time, i'm going to ask her to call the doctor.

[Mary]

How about if you take Foradil for COPD?
Is it still bad stuff? Are they recalling it
or just advising Asthma users not to use it?

[Michael]

I use Advair Diskuss for my asthma and because of the steroid component in it, I gained over twenty pounds in a year and a half. Not a very good side affect when you also have high blood pressure.

[alaskachick1]

i have asthma any of you people out there who dont have it, you are so lucky, who knows i could just be walking along a road, alone adn bang have an attack, it is so scary consider yoursleves lucky. people say asthma is nto a big deal, but they dont know anything, they have never had an asthma attack so how would they know???

people die form asthma each yeat about 7000, so be grateful you are lucky

[Jack50]

Michael wrote:

I use Advair Diskuss for my asthma and because of the steroid component in it, I gained over twenty pounds in a year and a half. Not a very good side affect when you also have high blood pressure.

I got off of Advair because of the “long-acting beta 2-adrenergic agonists”(LABA) component in the inhaler. The LABA component is unpredictable in which yields the FDA's -Black Box Warning, of which is just stops short of taking the product off the market.

[Jack50]

alaskachick1 wrote:

i have asthma any of you people out there who dont have it, you are so lucky, who knows i could just be walking along a road, alone adn bang have an attack, it is so scary consider yoursleves lucky. people say asthma is nto a big deal, but they dont know anything, they have never had an asthma attack so how would they know???
people die form asthma each yeat about 7000, so be grateful you are lucky

The truth of the matter is that no one is immune from asthma or any of the various other forms respiratory ailments.(e.g. Seasonal or Chronic Bronchitis, Reactive Airway Disease and so on)

[SNSB]

http://www.savecfcinhalers.org/

This site has some very good information.