Advair/spirive withdrawl symptoms

[Talon23]

I have been taking advair 500/50 and spiriva 18mg for over a year now in combination with each other.  When I get a chest infection, guess what?  can't breathe.  When I do not have a cold I can breathe just fine.  I recently had a full physical with my family doctor and just about died when I hit the scales.  He is telling me that as long as I am taking steriods (prednisone included at times) I will have weight problems.  I have managed 44 years of no daily schedule for breathing aids, and am at day 3 now without the above meds.  I am tired but overall it feels like my body is itself again.  How good can regularly taken medication be for you that inhibits the natural production of adrenalin ands slows down the metabolic rate yet can wire you for sound at the same time.  What if any side effects can I expect from quitting these meds so quickly

[buggedout379]

new to the forum, although Ive put a comment on one of your answers above I think might help you and thanks so much for your answer to someone elses question it really has helped me

I forgot to put in the To box that it was to you :)

[buggedout379]

hello
KS1010 I noticed in your reply you mentioned that you have acid reflux
my mum has acid reflux and was put on the ground breaking new tablets to get rid of it, needles to say they didn't work after a while

recently we both gave up gluten and stopped eating additives in our food
and now my mothers acid reflux has completely gone, unless she eats her favorite thing in the world beans lol :)

the following additives in food are ones to not eat

glucose syrup contain barley or wheat which also contain mono sodium glutimate, gluten for short

this is the biggy to avoid others are

alluminium bicarbinate (found in baked products)
malic acid (all sour sweets)
maltadextrin (in processed foods)
dextros (a type of sugar)
(maltadextrin and dextrose are both derived from weat gluten)
sorbitol
glycerine
glycol
mono dyglicerids (frozen foods )
anonythins (colourant)
guar gum
xantham gum
carageenan
soya lecirin (in all chocholate)
fructose syrupe
sweetners, asulfame k, aspartame, saccharine, stick with normal sugar its much safer

all of the above have survior side effects and are most likely causing your acid reflux

but the main one to avoid is, gluten

I hope this helps

[buggedout379]

hello
KS1010 I noticed in your reply you mentioned that you have acid reflux
my mum has acid reflux and was put on the ground breaking new tablets to get rid of it, needles to say they didn't work after a while

recently we both gave up gluten and stopped eating additives in our food
and now my mothers acid reflux has completely gone, unless she eats her favorite thing in the world beans lol :)

the following additives in food are ones to not eat

glucose syrup contain barley or wheat which also contain mono sodium glutimate, gluten for short

this is the biggy to avoid others are

alluminium bicarbinate (found in baked products)
malic acid (all sour sweets)
maltadextrin (in processed foods)
dextros (a type of sugar)
(maltadextrin and dextrose are both derived from weat gluten)
sorbitol
glycerine
glycol
mono dyglicerids (frozen foods )
anonythins (colourant)
guar gum
xantham gum
carageenan
soya lecirin (in all chocholate)
fructose syrupe
sweetners, asulfame k, aspartame, saccharine, stick with normal sugar its much safer

all of the above have survior side effects and are most likely causing your acid reflux

but the main one to avoid is, gluten

I hope this helps

[KS1010]

I was put on Advair 250 twice a day for acid reflux-related asthma. I used it for about four weeks before I decided to quit it cold turkey, as I gained a lot of weight from the steroids and have never weighed so much in my life. The day after I quit it I got really bad withdrawal symptoms--particularly, my asthma became the WORST it's ever been in my life. My chest felt as if it had concrete poured into it. It got so bad that I was waking up every couple of hours and couldn't get any sleep. I was tempted to go back on the Advair, as I was using my albuterol inhaler every two hours, but I kept reminding myself that it was just the Advair causing extreme withdrawal symptoms and that it would get better. As I was determined to stick it out and quit the steroids, I endured three days of terrible withdrawal symptoms.

Now, I'm happy to say that I'm no longer dependent on Advair and I'm back to my normal self. After about 3 days of breathing hell (which is known as "rebound inflammation"), everything normalized. I'm back to the rare usage of albuterol and don't use steroid inhalers at all. I'm posting this to let people know that quitting Advair can be rough for the first few days, but it DOES get better. I recommend quitting on a Friday, so you'll have recovered from the withdrawal by Monday and the start of the work week.