Every time I think of this, I get furious. How dare these people? Not only do the new inhalers not work, but when they were re-formulated they suddenly became "new" drugs and no generics were available. As with everything the government does, costs increased and quality and access decreased.
I guess they think one way to save the earth is to kill off everyone with respiratory problems. Oh, and some of the new inhalers contain ethanol. How can that be good for my lungs?
Most people have not experienced suffocation and do not understand that someone's own lungs can suddenly close and kill them.
I would suggest you discuss with your doctor about getting a nebulizer in your home with liquid albuterol. Maybe it's not affected since it's air-propelled. Good luck.
O.M.Gosh. This is me complaining to my doctor. The new powdered inhalers feel like NOTHING gets into your lungs, and it probably isn’t.
Albuterol Inhalers from Mexico work and they are less than $2 each. Everyone knows someone who vacations there. Have them stop by a pharmacy, no prescription needed, and pick up a dozen.
Our son’s supply was stolen, but my parents are going there next winter so hopefully they can get some for him.
If you are having trouble taking a breath the fact you aren’t getting as much of a forceful application is a big problem. They should have went with co2 or nitrogen but this would require many more inhalers because they wouldn’t contain as much propellant for a given volume
Ethanol=grain alcohol=VERY rapid absorption. Ethanol is the one good thing about this. The downside is that now you might run into problems with DUI laws.
Can you say overregulated? Of course you can. When one law leads to breaking another, you know that a tipping point approaches RAPIDLY.
Reagan’s fault.
Another vote for Albuterol inhalers from Mexico. They look and work just like the old ones.
I can get six for the cost of one copay for the new ones.
CFC atomizes really well and the velocity is higher so consider using a spacer for best results.
Have you thought of getting these inhalers through Canada Pharmacies??
last i checked, the ozone was healed -
Let’s not forget that China is dumping CFC’s into the atmosphere at an alarming rate, anyway. Besides, it’s not as if an inhaler holds enough CFC to make up for all of the other aerosol products that no longer use CFC’s. Every asthmatic on the planet together couldn’t possibly use near enough CFC to cause ozone issues again; if the two were even related.
Anyone who’d do this have to be the most chickenshit people on earth. And don’t tell me this will save the environment.
I hear you. I hate the new inhalers. My wife needs Fyentol patches, you wouldn’t believe what she has to go through to get those.
I had asthma for years, decades even. It was bad enough at times that I made trips to the emergency room. I struggled through high school before learning about the Medihaler Iso from 3M. Made life livable. After the prescription ran out, it was Medihaler Epi which was epinephrine instead of Isuprel. After a while I used Primatene and Bronchaid. After I got health insurance, I started using Albuterol.
Then I took up day hiking in the Sierras. After a year or two, I was out on the trail without an inhaler. The nearest one was 40 miles away by driving after 4 miles hiking back to the car. I had no choice but to go without. An hour after I discovered that I didn’t have an inhaler, I found out that I could survive without one. Ten years later, I still don’t use them.
Absolute and utter horse hockey.
The FDA is a special interest group that is paid off by the pharm industry.
Public safety is not their concern.
Lining their pockets is.
BMK
They should go the whipped cream route and use Nitrous Oxide....in really big dispensers...
bfl
I thought it was me. I rarely use inhaler but keep on hand and when I refilled, it was different but more importantly I thought this isn’t doing squat. I kept thinking I had failed to remove a tab or something, it seemed nothing was coming out and what was coming out was not working.
Thank goodness I don’t rely on them and only use a few times in the fall for tightness when fall allergy season arrives. Feel for those folks who actually MUST have them to survive.
Do you see a lung Doc?