Asthma Support Group

I sometimes get like that. It feels like im coughing up a lung and sometimes I almost throw up. And yeap it makes it harder to catch my breath. I use my rescue inhaler and it usually helps ease the cough. It takes a lil longer to catch my breath but atleast the coughing stops.

I have had coughing like you described since i was six. In fact, for the first year or so coughing was my only symptom.

I was first treated with a combination inhaler like the advair that you are taking. Unfortunatly i dont think it is available any more as it was the best thing for my cough.

Now i am on symbicort which combines formoterol and budesonide. Formoterol is a long acting reliever, but unlike others it starts to act very quickly, so it can be used insted of or even with you normal reliever.

Generally i find that my coughing stops better with the symbicort inhaler than it does with salbutamol.

I am still trying to find out what the med i was on as a child was called and if it is still available. If i do i'll tell you incase you want to try it.

Hope this helps

Lorna

Leah24- adaviar is still about- its seretide to us!!!

everyones asthma is different and soem people get a cough as their main sympton as they ahve cough varient asthma other people get a wheeze or get short of breathe. it varys form perosn to person.

coughing can become tiring and relief is minimal. i hope you are able to fiond something to help it all for you

olive

Olive- i know it says advair on my profile but recently i have realised that it wasnt that. All that i know is that it was a accuhaler/discus thing and it was pink.

I am still trying to find out what it was from another friend who has been on it before.

I would quite like to know what it was and if it is still available as i could really do with something to stop this cough

Lorna
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I don't get the violent coughing fits, but I get coughing like I have a bug in my throat cough. I don't know if it's just that I'm not passing enough air to have a "violent" coughing fit, or if it's for a different reason. Either way, it can be pretty constant until I use my rescue and what ever needs to be cleared, clears.

Thanks everyone for your posts. I have written another topic labeled "Coughing Update". Just a little update on what the doctors told me yesterday.

Unfortunately I'm going through the same thing for the past couple of weeks. I couldn't afford to get my Asmanex inhaler filled so since I've been off of it, I can't stop coughing. I have to take prescription cough meds to help me sleep through the night. One thing that seems to help me is cough drops or sucking on hard candy. When my throat gets dry it makes the coughing a lot worse.

Leah,
Was the pink accuhaler Flixotide (Fluticasone)?
I seem to remember using them at one time.

Sometimes, but not always, coughing can come from post nasal drip. Dry up your nose and it will stop. Otherwise Rebecca's idea to suck on a cough lolly can give relief

flixotide is orange over here in britain not pink so dont think it will ahve been flixotide. i still cant think of any pink inhalers!!!

olive

I think it might have been the lowest dose of seretide because i was only very young at the time

Lorna