SPIVIRA VS. SYMBICORT.

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Hank Perea - 14 Nov 2005 19:32 GMT

Can anyone please elaborate on these
two medications .Effectiveness,etc. Thanks.
Hank

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gertie41@yahoo.com - 15 Nov 2005 01:56 GMT

Of course you know symbicort is pulmicort and foradil combined.Foradil
gets me through the night.I use combivent,pulmicort and serevent in the
morning.I almost always use combivent again late afternoon.A routine of
my own that works fairly well for me.Good luck.

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00doc - 16 Nov 2005 04:04 GMT

> Of course you know symbicort is pulmicort and foradil combined.Foradil
> gets me through the night.I use combivent,pulmicort and serevent in the
> morning.I almost always use combivent again late afternoon.A routine of
> my own that works fairly well for me.Good luck.

Just curious -

Why Foradil at night and erevent in the AM?

Why Pulmicort/Serevent in the am then Fordil/Pulmicort (basically Symbicort)
at night?

Why not just either Advair or Symbicort twice daily?

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00doc - 16 Nov 2005 04:08 GMT

> Can anyone please elaborate on these
> two medications .Effectiveness,etc. Thanks.
> Hank

They are completely different.

Spiriva is a long acting version of Atrovent which is a bronchodilator that
works in a different way than albuterol and the other similar meds. Atrovent
is usually not quite as effective as albuterol and works slower in most
asthma patients but is used a lot in emphysema. If the asthmatic is severe
and needing more dilation it is sometimes added.

Symbicort is a combination of a steroid (budesonide/Pulmicort) and a long
acting dilator that works in a similar way as albuterol
(Fordail/formoterol).

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