Hi,

I bet you won't get anyone on this newsgroup to agree with yuo that a
particular prescribed medicine  may be the cause of a deteriorating
breathing problem.  I say this because I had a chest infection and was given
cipro antibiotic which I am 99% certain made it very difficult to breathe.
The doctor said it could not possibly be the antibiotic causing the problem
and so increased the dose. The breathing got worse. I asked the doctor for a
penicilling type antibiotic as I knew these drugs never gave me any problems
but he said there was no way it would be effective against the bug I had
got. I went home and stopped taking the cipro. Lo and behold the symptoms
began to clear up withing 36 hours. 1 week later I was more or less ok.
Unfortunately 1 year later I still feel that my lungs are not quite right.

I found that some steroid inhalers also cause a scary chest tightening about
12-18 hours after taking them, as do  a number of medications.

I don't bother telling the doctor about it a he just looks in his book and
says "no it's not the drug". He would of course say that as he is on sound
legal grounds should I drop dead when taking an approved medication. Were he
to take me of these drugs and I dropped dead he might find himself in a spot
of bother.

Definitely psud your psychiatrist over this. Take daily PFR and note them
down, keep a note of the times you take your drugs and the time and type of
adverse effects that you have, and always have this when you when seeing the
doctor.

As for this newsgroup. I get a feeling sometime that it's a front for people
that work for drug companies or just plain dominated by  doctors like the
one you and I have had to deal with.

Please, if anyone has breathing problems and are given medication, don't
always asume that you are wrong about any suspicions that you may have about
the treatment.     Push your doctor about it and make a posting on this site
as well.