So far, the focus on staying relaxed while breathing and practicing
nose-breathing and breath holding seems to be helping.  I'm now doing
Advair 250/50 in the mornings and nothing at night whereas I was usually
doing 250/50 AM and 100/50 PM.

I have found that allergies are a big part of asthma for me, and the
switch from Allegra 60 2x/day to Allegra 180 1x/day really helps - just
more medicine, I guess, but I don't seem to need the evening dose of
either Allegra or Advair now.  I'm just back from a vacation where I
didn't get much in the way of HEPA-filtered air like I do at home and I
still seemed OK, even out in the woods.

So, some small progress, no doubt in part psychological and/or
psychosomatic but feeling as good or better and with less medicine is a
result I'm happy to have, regardless of how I got there.

I plan on asking the doctor about separate prescriptions for steroid and
dilator and trying only Flovent in the near future.  I've never done
that - started on Serevent only, then went to Advair.  Seems like a
worthwhile thing to try.

For anyone keeping track, I continue to take Singulair every morning, 10
mg, and Nasonex just before bed.

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