Has anyone had any experiences with breaking the albuterol cycle? By that, I mean: exercising, asthma gets bad due to physical activity, use albuterol rescue inhaler, albuterol shows signs on the body, exercise to be rid of the weight gain, or even simply exercise to be rid of the weight gain that happens from being less able to exercise, and it repeats.Has anyone had luck breaking out of this cycle? How did you do it?
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Breaking the Albuterol Cycle
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Well for me i have asthma and i dont regularly exercise. However my metabolism works very good so im not overweight at all. The fact is that the asthma is what keeps me from exercising and i dont like that. This summer im really thinking about becoming more active
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When I moved away from home and into my own place, my asthma got so bad that I had 3 trips to the emergency room, all wthin a 2-week period. Now I'm on Singulair (Everyone wanted to put me on Advair, but I didn't like that idea). I'm also on Atrovent and albuterol as a rescue inhaler, which I still have to take every 3 or so hours because my asthma will flare up no matter what I'm doing.I thought maybe it was something in the apartment, but we'll be moving in a month anyway, so we'll see.I thought for a long time whether or not albuterol had steroids in it, but I was told it was...which could be a reason why it's possible to physically gain weight while severely exercising and cutting calorie intake in half for 8 months.I'd like to break out of the cycle. edited for spelling
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no1sexpotinusa,I've tried taking my inhaler beforehand, and waiting a couple of minutes, but it never seems to help. Maybe I should talk to my doctor about getting something stronger, but is there anything that is non-steroid that would help? Every doctor I've talked to wants to go straight for the steroids, and is reluctant to talk about other options unless I bring them up first.
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There may be mold or something else in the air at you r place that is/was triggering the asthma. You should perhaps consider some kind of air treatment. We got one of those Ionic Breeze air cleaners from Sharper Image. They ar pricey but it works.
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Consumer Reports says that the Ionic Breeze and other ionic air cleaners are nearly useless, and some of them put out significant amounts of ozone. The cleaners that use filters are effective. (WCPO story) See the May 2005 issue of Consumer Reports (page 22) for the original story.CR also tested ionic cleaners in 2003, and found the Ionic Breeze not to be very useful. Sharper Image didn't like that, so they sued. They lost, and had to pay CU (publisher of Consumer Reports) $525,000 in attorneys' fees, as ordered by the court.
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All I can say is that it pulls a lot of crap out of the air and has stopped a lot of mold from forming in shoes and undisturbed clothing hanging in the corners of the closet among other things. They can say whatever that want. And yes, it does not have fans to quickly move air. But, I really do not want to have the constant drone of a fan in my ear.
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I have the ionoic breeze in my bedroom. The air smells fresher, but as for if it really is fresh i dont know. Im kinda ify on it if you ask me.
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I was going to mention what SteveA said, though I didn't have the full report.I lived in a house that had severe mold problems when I was younger, but I never had issues like this. Then again, this apartment building is very old.Do you think that maybe if I could get rid of the main asthma problems that are seperate from exercise-induced problems, then maybe the induced problems wouldn't be so bad? (Thereby actually being able to lose weight by exercising and eating right?)
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As far as I know, there is no mold problem here, and if there is, it's not nearly as bad as what we had in our house when I was a kid. But, I do think there is something here triggering it, and that's why I'm going to be moving soon.My problem started way before I moved last November, though. I lived in another house for 3 years, and I had virtually no asthma problems. When I lived there, when I needed my inhaler only when I exercised, and that's when my problem started.I'm working on getting out of this apartment and into a place that doesn't affect my asthma. All current problems aside, how does a person break out of the whole issue of exercising to lose weight, and then the albuterol (that they take due to exercising) having adverse effects?(I'm sorry for being redundant. My current asthma problems are actually not related to the original question, because I've had this question for much longer than I've had the more severe asthma issues.)
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Ok, I think maybe I'm not asking the right question.... you guys are doing an awesome job of trying to help. I'm sorry for being so frustrating.Has anyone ever been able to avoid the steroidal side effects of the albuterol, or have you found an alternative rescue inhaler?
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I don't understand - albuterol (= salbutamol, Ventolin, Proventil) is not a steroid. It is chemically a very different structure, and it has different effects.
I'm not sure what you mean by steroid effects. You talk of weight gain, and one site mentions increased appetite as a possible side effect. This doesn't seem to be a common problem, however, and it doesn't tie in with your experience of weight gain despite a reduced diet.
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Really? I was told that it had the same effects as a steroid, but I was still doubtful. That's probably why my question wasn't making any sense. Actually, it's not that I have an inability to exercise, I did exercise. I walked for 5 miles a day, biked 3, and swam, every day for months. I was eating healthy, in moderation, very strict calorie intake. The problem was, I was gaining weight and couldn't figure out why. I was told by a couple of people that albuterol contained steroids, and that could be a problem. So really, it would have no adverse effects to use an albuterol inhaler, would it?When I talked to my doctor about it, we switched a few of my medications, but not albuterol. She didn't have an answer for it either.
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(By the way, I did a search on whether or nor albuterol had steroids, and I was getting vague answers. That's why I tended to believe what I was told)
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Not as much as I used to, not since I was hospitalized, but the weight gain started months and months before. I still exercised at that time, though.
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My search was done almost a year ago, when it started. Hopefully there's some better info up now.
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albuterol is NOT a steroid, i know that for a fact.....i work in a pharmacy
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That's good to know. I'm glad it's not the albuterol then, because the albuterol is something I need. /so there's something else that was causing it... maybe other medications.I'm jsut glad to know that it isn't a steroid.What are the other known side effects besides tremors and increased heart rate?
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here is the best info that you can find online on albuterol. Its from medlineplus.com, a very reliable sourcealbuterol info
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Thank you both so much. I feel kind of, well actually... really stupid now for thinking that albuterol was a steroid. I guess it was partially because I couldn't find any good info at the time I did the search, and the advise was taken from my father, who has been my local asthma expert since I was 7.I'll definetly visit the sites and send it along ti my dad. You have been so helpful.