Short week and very busy again. I was going to skip my Dr appointment this morning, but since I had waited for a month to see my asthma Dr I figure I better go. He is all concerned about my control of my asthma….if he thinks this is bad he should have seen me last month! I think I am doing much better…..I have to see him in a week again for him to review how my meds are working.
So I am back on a high high dose of predisone for the fourth time!! I will have to deal with the side effects of that med again for a while. I am so hungry on this med and gain so much weight! I told him and he said, yes, that is a very common side effect. So I guess once this is over I will have to workout alot! I sometimes experience insomnia too and clean my house the entire night. But the last 3 rounds this hasn’t happened. I jsut eat us out of house and home!
So the new regimen of meds include….
Advair (new drug have used in past)
Pulmicort
Singular
Zyrtec
Rhinocort
Xopenex – PRN
Atrovent – PRN
Albuterol – PRN
Predisone
Gee does it look like they are over medication my asthma!! YIKES!! SO this is the new guess on medication and I will see the specialist again in one week. As he said, his main goal is to keep me out of ICU. I so don’t have time for this, but then again I don’t have time to be sick either! I am actually hoping that the predisone will give me insomnia this time around so I can get some work done in those wee hours of the morning. It comes in handy!
That’s a lot of medication. My son has been on most of them – but not all at once like this! I couldn’t imagine being on a med that would make me want to eat more. Could I POSSIBLY eat more??? I saw an interview with John Travolta once. He said that he works out about three hours a day because he refuses NOT to eat!
Feel better and have a good day! 😀
Predisone is awful— my sister is on it, and it makes her swell up like a balloon. The edema is the worst part for her.
Does the albuterol give you the shakes? I was really ill with something like bronchitis earlier this month, and I was taking it so I could breathe. After a treatment, my hands were shaking so badly I could hardly type!
Sure hope they can figure out a medicine that will work for you with out all the side effects, that’s no fun having weight gain and feeling hungry all the time! Chew alot of gum! hehe 🙂 Hang in there! Blessings.
thats a ridiculous amount of med… yikes! I hope they can figure out a better remedy for you!