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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Asthma / June 2004Foradil
I woud appreciate hearing from anyone that uses Foridal as to any drawbacks. The VA put me on Foradilmas Serevenr has been discontinued. They would not issue me the Serevent diskus as the VA consired it to expensive. Foradil in the US is a powdered inhaler. Some people, including myself, cannot tolerate these powdered inhalers. > I woud appreciate hearing from anyone that uses Foridal as to any drawbacks. The VA put me on Foradil as Serevenr has been discontinued. They would not issue me the Serevent diskus as the VA consired it to expensive. ----------------------- I switched to Foradil when the Serevent MDI was discontinued. Foradil works fine and has the advantage of immediate response instead of having to wait 15 min as with Serevent. Foradil has the disadvantage of being a powder using an Aerolizer to administer; is bulky to carry the blister tabs, and is best refrigerated. The package says once dispensed store at 20-25 deg [68-77 deg]; so don't carry around in a hot car. Too bad its not available in a Turbuhaler in the US. >Subject: Re: Foradil >From: Ellis ellis@jpsvoid.net >Date: 05/31/04 5:25 AM Eastern Daylight Time >Message-id: Thanks Ellis for your adequate response. >Too bad its not available in a Turbuhaler in the US. It is getting very frustrating for those of us having problems with the powders, while the rest of the world has the latest MDIs with the same basic medicines allowed in the US. For example, foradil and budesonide is being combined in an MDI inhaler, so is advair, and they are available in Europe and Canada. A newer steroid just was licensed in England. Anyone with the drug companies or FDA connecting to this newsgroup mind saying how long it will be before they are marketed here, and what is holding up the process? Aramar wrote <<< Too bad its not available in a Turbuhaler in the US. It is getting very frustrating for those of us having problems with the powders, while the rest of the world has the latest MDIs with the same basic medicines allowed in the US. For example, foradil and budesonide is being combined in an MDI inhaler, so is advair, and they are available in Europe and Canada. A newer steroid just was licensed in England. Anyone with the drug companies or FDA connecting to this newsgroup mind saying how long it will be before they are marketed here, and what is holding up the process? >>> The problem is "One size fits all." Until consumers band together and take these companies to court if necessary there won't be relief. |
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