2024 52 Card Project Week 10: Asthma

[pegkerr]

I may have mentioned that getting Covid in December led to a strong deterioration in my pulmonary health. I could not kick the cough until I got a prescription for an asthma inhaler. I used the inhaler for a month, and it did seem to clear things up. I didn't renew the prescription because yikes, it's $200 a month.

I don't always get asthma in the spring. But I'm starting to think that I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and pony up for the inhaler again. I'm glad that I have a solution available, even if it is expensive. Because having difficulty breathing and coughing all the time just sucks.

In a blue-tinged landscape, a woman kneels on sandy ground, arching backward. Black-tinged smoke drifts upward from her mouth. Lower right corner: three Halls lemon-honey cough drops (two wrapped and one unwrapped). Left: a silver dandelion with several seeds blown away. Above the dandelion: an Advair inhaler diskus.

Asthma



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Comments

[dreamshark]

Advair is INSANELY expensive, but I think there is now a generic equivalent (only recently approved). Check with your doctor.

I was looking this up because I came home from seeing the grandkids with a terrible cough that might be their cold, or pollen allergies, or both. I had a nearly empty Advair inhaler sitting around, tried it, and it helped tremendously. But there are only 4 puffs left and it was so old that I don't even have a prescription on file for it. I actually have a doctor appointment next week and plan to ask about Advair-like options.

[pameladean]

That is really effective and dramatic (in the good way). It made ME want an inhaler.

I hope you can get what you need to deal with the asthma.

P.

[ndrosen]

It’s too bad that you have asthma. I hope that you can continue to afford the treatment, and that the inhaler is effective.