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Fostair inhaler

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Twentybottlesofbeer · 11/10/2024 17:14

Has anyone else had this experience?

I've changed to Fostair after many many years on a different regime. GP tells me I can still use salbutamol too.

But I've noticed I use the fostair and almost feel tighter and wheezier afterwards than before and I have to fight not to take an immediate dose of salbutamol as technically I shouldn't need if at that point.

I am also finding it crazily difficult to sleep and I'm normally 10seconds and I'm fast asleep at night.

Has anyone else experienced this with Fostair? This is the second time I've tried it and the second time this has happened!

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NannyR · 11/02/2025 10:29

Twentybottlesofbeer · 11/02/2025 09:53

I have one of the spacers that has a whistle on it. If I try to breathe slowly so that the whistle doesn't make a noise, I feel like I'm going to faint. Like when you have the GP listen to your chest and you have to breathe in and out, I get stars in my eyes then. Same feeling.

I've been back to the asthma nurse who is useless. I'm fine, I'm not ill, I just need serious amounts of salbutamol!

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I wouldn't worry about the whistle - mine doesn't even work at the moment (I need to get a new one). You just need to breathe as normal through the spacer, as the PP said, the whistle is there to stop people taking quick, deep breaths.

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Twentybottlesofbeer · 11/02/2025 10:31

NannyR · 11/02/2025 10:29

I wouldn't worry about the whistle - mine doesn't even work at the moment (I need to get a new one). You just need to breathe as normal through the spacer, as the PP said, the whistle is there to stop people taking quick, deep breaths.

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I only worry about it because it drives me around the bend and I don't want to wake everyone else up 😂

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