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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Asthma / March 2006Accolate
Hi, I am an asthama patient . Suffering from this disease for the past few years . Have been taking medicines , but they give me only temporary relief . My friend suggested me of Accolate . I heard of this drug for the first time . Want to know the details of it .Will it really work ? Hi , Morgan , dont get so tensed . You have heard of the right medicine . Accolate helps to prevent asthma attacks. It is prescribed for longterm treatment. but if the Asthma attacks starts accolate will not stop it .at that time you will neeed some airway opening medication . If you decide to go for accolate visit the following sites for more info : http://medguides.medicines.org.uk/document.aspx?name=Accolate&use=asthma&prepara tion=1 http://www.drugdelivery.ca/s338-s-ACCOLATE.aspx you may face slight side effects like headache and nausea . But that is negligible . Take this drug after consulting doctor only . Accolate is one preventaive medicine for asthma. It is similar to Singulair. You don't really give us a lot of details but it sounds like you may be having more symptoms than is considered optimal and maybe shoul dbe on some kind of preventative. To be considered well controlled you should be having symptoms no more than 2-3 time per week. Most docs would start with an inhaled steroid as they are more effective then the pills like Accolate. If you are on an inhaled steroid and still having problems then Accolate is one of many possible ways to gain better control. Unfortunately, not everyone responds to it.  Signature00doc > To be considered well controlled you should be having symptoms > no more > than 2-3 time per week. > 00doc Having symptoms 2-3 times a week is well controlled? My docs always told me if I had symptoms once or twice a week, we needed to try something else. Who would want to live like that? By "Symptoms" I mean that you wheeze a bit (or feel tight), take 2 puffs, and feel immediately better. Obviously, if "the symptoms" are worse than that then you would need more help. As for who would want to live like that: You would be surprised. Asthmatics are famous for saying they are doing well despite taking their rescue inhalers 6 times a day and limiting activities due to wheezing. The person who objects to using their albuterol twice weekly is an exception (I always knew you were exceptional). Here are the guidelines. They have tightened it up from 2-3 times per week to less than or equal to twice a week. Once or twice a week is clearly considered well controlled and does not call for an increase in therapy according to current guidelines. http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/asthma/execsumm.pdf Signature00doc > By "Symptoms" I mean that you wheeze a bit (or feel tight), > take 2 > puffs, and feel immediately better. Obviously, if "the > symptoms" are > worse than that then you would need more help. Oh, I thought you meant post medication. > As for who would want to live like that: You would be > surprised. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > to > wheezing. Yeah, I shouldn't be surprised by this. I've met some people who aren't doing well at all and when it sounds like they may have asthma caused by bacteria and I tell them about it, their response is, "But I'm fine. I wouldn't really want to take an antibiotic for twelve weeks and I'm used to my asthma anyway" (or some other nonsense). Meanwhile you can hear them wheezing between breaths and they're just standing there, not even moving. >The person who objects to using their albuterol twice weekly > is an exception (I always knew you were exceptional). Oh, you sweet talkin' hunk 'o weight-liftin' man, you. I was looking for relief when I had asthma, so I didn't care how many meds I was on and how often I had to take them. > Here are the guidelines. They have tightened it up from 2-3 > times per [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/asthma/execsumm.pdf Thanks for the link. Morgan, I took Accolate for over 2 years and I can't say that it helped me all that much. I finally quit taking it due to its cost vs. its benefit plus I was afraid of its major side effect. Accolate can cause liver damage. It warns users in the pamphlet about watch for right side abdominal pain and yellowing eyes. I have taken Singulair as well as Accolate and I do have to say that Accolate did work a whole lot better than Singulair. I have also tried Advair which I really don't suggest. There is a newer asthma drug called ASMANEX on the market which I am really impressed with check it out at Asmanex.com. Hope this helps ncchinagirl |
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