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Poor baby
Zoomy, I have asthma and have had it all my life w/ allergies. I also take Singulair and also used to sell it. Generally, from my experience Singulair works great in 1/3 of patients, decent in 1/3 of patients and not at all in 1/3 of patients. Generally, those it works well for are patients who allergies and asthma are leukotriene mediated. You may not be this type of person. I am. If you need to take your inhaler more than once per week to control asthma then you need to be on an inhaled corticosteroid. You have to see which ones are on your drug plan/formulary. Advair would also be an option (start with lowest dose). This is a inhaled corticosteroid with an long acting bronchodilator included. Albuterol is a short acting bronchodilator. Go see your doc and ask for a sample. Give it a month to see how it works. You will probably be quite happy with it. You need to have your asthma under control and not need to take albuterol inhaler often. BTW, I am assuming you take your Albuterol before exercise right???
Make sure you don't have allergies or sinusitis underlying the current flare.
The thick yellow dust on your cars, presumably from pine trees, is rarely allergenic. It all gets filtered out by your nose and throat before it can get into your body deep enough to cause real problems. Allergies typically come from the stuff that is too small to see.
another thought... The pulminologist tells me that my allergies/sinusitis is triggering the extra asthmas issues...the constant cough...he keeps his eye open for reflux issues that can also trigger asthma Also, I have other sleep issues (apnea) and a (relatively) high stress job which also contributes to this. I even change blood pressure meds just to eliminate all cause of little sleep....hopefully, I can dig out of this sleep hole that I am in and get back to some life.... The job stress may also be contributing to the asthma issues too...as I think that it is a trigger (for me at least)
Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. (Heb. 12:1b) Mile by Mile
MTA: my friend the Merck rep says you're supposed to take the Singulair two hours before exercise. Does it matter when you take it, Zoomy? *I know.*