Aerosure?

Have you seen a doctor re your breathlessness? Have youve checked with your doctor that this is safe for you to use? Im always wary of products like this.

Mumsy I've had inhalers from doctors for last 2 years now. Nothing much helps. I am at my wits end and I will try this as no medicine is used in it. I just wondered if anyone else had? Thanks for your concern though.

Sorry, I have not used an Aerosure but before you write your inhalers off, there is a knack to using them. I have watched others 'using them' and failing miserably (as a mist of the medicine that has just been pressed escapes from the users mouth!).

So, are you:

Shaking it before use

Sealing your lips around the mouthpiece

Breathing out as much as possible

Breathing in and pressing the top simultaneously

Holding your breath for as long as you can

All the above can make a huge - enormous - difference to how the inhalers can do their job for you.

Do you know that you can press for several doses very quickly, almost at the same time, so in effect, you inhale several at once?

If you need more than ten doses a day you need to see your GP.

If you can manage all the points above and you are not being helped by the inhalers it is definitely time to revisit your doctor, or see if your practice has an 'asthma nurse'. She should be able to help you (there are other inhalers you may need to act as a preventative measure but they are used in the same way, or similar, as they vary a little but all involve the timing of breathing in and pressure thee inhaler for a dose).

Please do not leave it too long before practicing with your inhaler or seeking a visit to your GP.

Wishing you better.

good advice candelle, when my late husband had to use an inhaler for his copd he was having difficulty using an inhaler so the doctor prescribes a volume spacer, a device to attach the inhaler to and that made it a lot easier for him to inhale.

Yes, Mumsy, good idea, as a volume spacer can indeed help, particularly if several does are taken at the same moment.

Aerosure, if you ask your practice for a volume spacer, you can take several doses from your inhaler (you keep the end of the spacer in your mouth in place of the inhaler) and breathe in and out several times, thereby inhaling more of the drug.

Please don't leave this! Try using the inhaler as I suggested earlier today - preferably standing up, too. If this provides no relief, please see your GP tomorrow or even go to a walk-in or urgent care centre today, although you do say you have been struggling with this for several years, so perhaps it is not an urgent attack.

Whatever, it should not be left - there are 1500 deaths each year from asthma...

Please let us know how you get on!

Thanks