I'm in Australia. I've been a chronic asthmatic all my life -- at the
moment, in the slippery-slope span of years, I'm controlling it pretty
well with ventolin when needed, beclaforte 500 morning and night, and
if necessary, nuelin and/or prednisilone.
Last night I found that weather conditions had brought my asthma up
somewhat, so I added to the ventolin (which seemed pretty useless) and
beclaforte a puff of an old atrovent spray I hadn't used for a year or
so. I had previously abandoned using this as I thought the beclaforte
would do everything it could, and more .. but to my surprise, it did
bring relief. Do others still use this? Is it something I should get
back onto my prescription list or was last night's reaction just a
fluke? I can't ask my asthma specialist as he's a three hour journey
away and the local GPs here know next to nothing about asthma-
maintenance -- they'll just prescribe what I ask for....