Ventolin experiencr

[loveautumn]

Update, finally got pricing issue resolved so price is now around $120 for months worth so I’ll have to go with it. I’ve been using for a week now, seems to be helping. See allergist next week to get her take in all this. The blood test I was given by pulmonologist for certain allergies came back all negative. I was surprised about that.

[ocpaul20]

Take what I say with a huge dose of salt and this is my personal experience - which may not be yours. I have been using Ventolin since a kid (2 years old?) until 2014 when I started to develop high (up to 99) and slow heart rate (< 30) and passing out. This resulted in a pacemaker and going onto those round inhalers with small amounts of powder in 60 doses. I had a feeling that the Salbutemol and steroids in the Ventolin was causing my heart troubles after so many years. I am sure some will pooh-pooh this but it was a feeling I had at the time and still believe.

Anyway, I feel that (and again, I might not be correct) asthma is often triggered or a result of allergies or childhood trauma of some kind so I have been trying to work on myself for that trauma and various childhood issues. As an example, my uncle also suffered from asthma and only had to look at the TV screen showing grasses blowing in the wind and he would start to wheeze. This made me suspect there was an emotional component to this asthma thing which is why I am trying to sort out some childhood issues to try and release the asthma.

[mike1003]

Everything Guido said is correct except:


https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...smRCqKza8U_Mjg

Do not use PROAIR RESPICLICK with a spacer or volume holding chamber. Cleaning: • Keep the inhaler clean and dry at all times. Never wash or put any part of your inhaler in water. Routine maintenance is not required.

Ventolin, ProAir and Proventil are all Albuterol. The new ProAir Respiclick is a totally new delivery concept


Now, back to OP's question on taste loss


Albuteral is a rescue inhaler for when you are really bad. So, do you want to open your lungs and breathe, or taste? It is as simple as that, period! Your choice


Loss of taste as an adverse effect that it is so low (according to the clinical guide I use with my patients) that it is not even listed


Adverse Effects

>10%

Tremor (20%)
Nervousness in children aged 2-6 years (20%)
Insomnia in children aged 6-12 years receiving 4-12 mg q12hr (11%)
1-10%

Nausea (10%)
Fever (1.6-9%)
Bronchospasm (8%)
Vomiting (7%)
Headache (4-7%)
Dizziness (1-7%)
Cough (5%)
Allergic reactions (4%)
Otitis media (3.3%)
Epistaxis in children (3%)
Increased appetite (3%)
Urinary tract infection (3%)
Dry mouth (<3%)
Eructation or flatulence (<3%)
Increased sweating (<3%)
Pain (2.7%)
Dyspepsia (1-2%)
Hyperactivity (1-2%)
Chills (<2%)
Lymphadenopathy (<2%)
Ocular pruritus (<2%)
Sweating (<2%)
Conjunctivitis in children aged 2-6 years (1%)
Dysphonia (>1%)
Flu syndrome
Nervousness
<1%

Epigastric pain
Epistaxis in adults
Hyperactivity in children
Frequency Not Defined

Adverse reactions such as hypertension, angina, vertigo, central nervous system stimulation, insomnia, headache, metabolic acidosis, and drying or irritation of oropharynx
Hypersensitivity
Hypokalemia
Increased blood glucose levels
Prolonged QT interval and ST-segment depression
Sleeplessness
Tachycardia (incidence varies with formulation)
Urticaria, angioedema, rash, bronchospasm, and oropharyngeal edema (rare)


BUT REMEMBER, with any medication, if someone complains about a hang nail or something else silly, after the medication is in use, it must be listed in adverse effects on the manufacturers med sheet

[Forever Blue]

I've been diagnosed w/ the same thing as you...allergic asthma! I even got a 2nd opinion from a more renown pulmonologist. It all started out of the blue in Jan 2017 w/o any previous respiratory issues, allergies, etc. at all.

This thread explains my experience so I'm not typing all over again:
https://www.city-data.com/forum/alte...yone-know.html

Here's another thread about a later scary experience I had as a result:
https://www.city-data.com/forum/heal...at-do-you.html


To mk a long story short, my lung x-ray showed a 3mm size nodule that was inconclusive, but when I took my next routine chest x-ray, it was no longer there!

Throughout 2017-2019, I had a few scary unexplainable, occurrences w/ my breathing, but fortunately only went to the ER the 1st scary time when this whole asthma thing started.

My breathing's been good again since most of 2019 & beyond, thank God. But, I'm thinking I should always keep my 2 inhalers at all times just in case because I never know if I'll need them. I need to get a refill because the last ones I've had expired long ago.

I also have to remember to be careful when I eat because there were a couple of times long ago now when I inhaled a piece of food when I was eating. I went to urgent care for one of them.

I never had a metallic taste, whether due to Ventolin or anything else.



Lastly, here's some other threads I started that you may want to read:

https://www.city-data.com/forum/heal...hma-adult.html

https://www.city-data.com/forum/alle...nyone-use.html

https://www.city-data.com/forum/heal...ng-my-apt.html

https://www.city-data.com/forum/alte...ry-issues.html

https://www.city-data.com/forum/alle...when-have.html