no, you must take less drugzzz

[baratron]

WHY are my doctors permanently obsessed with trying to reduce my asthma meds? My asthma is good BECAUSE I'm on the dose I'm on. It's not a shockingly high dose for a person of my age and size - in fact, it's quite a low dose for an adult.

I'm annoyed because a) I went swimming on Friday for the first time in ages, and for possibly the first time since I was at school I could swim into the deep end of a chlorinated pool and not run out of air and panic, which impressed me greatly; and b) the dose I'm on is still not quite enough for me to cycle up Kingston Hill without almost dying of a snot attack. I'm especially annoyed because my doctor decided to change the drug without consulting me, so I now have an inhaler containing a drug which stopped working for me when I was 19. My asthma is very much worse than it was when I was 19, so there's no way it's going to work. Gah!

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[barakta]

Go back and ask for the old meds back at the old dose. Your ability to function has deteriorated and "if it wasn't broke, don't fix it".

I won't stand for meds being changed without my agreement. By all means if a doc says "I think X is a better alternative" or "There's drug Y, would you consider it" I'll think about it, try it and if it doesn't work go back and get my original meds damnit.

*sporks them for you!*

[baratron.livejournal.com]

My ability to function hasn't deteriorated yet, because I still have 20 doses of the old stuff left. But yeah, it's the principle of the thing. I don't know if Flixotide is ridiculously expensive, or if it's just the stupid "asthma specialist" nurse claiming that it's hideously dangerous. She was really unhappy with me being on 200mg twice a day. I don't get it. At all.

See also comment to artremis above. Bah.