Trelegy Machine (in-home ventolator) with Ellipta med. changes 3 years of the scariest health crisis I have ever been in.After 3 bed-bound years, I am driving, cooking alittle,going short distances.I am not back to myself & never will be, but I never dreamed I could get this far.I went through 5 teams of Drs. to get this one.Don't give up!Kathy in Louisiana

Margaret Tolson, the difference between COPD and asthma is that asthma is wholly or nearly wholly reversed with albuterol or other bronchodilators; COPD is not. Most of the meds we take for COPD were originally developed for asthma; Spiriva and others in that class are not designed for asthma. Most of the long term maintenance meds (like Advair and Symbicort as well as the newer combination meds) are very clear to say that they are not designed to help in an asthma attack and shouldn't be used for that. Some asthmatics were prescribed Advair as a maintenance med and took it thinking it would stop an asthma attack. That's why the warning.

Dr. took me off Symbicort and put me on Trelegy

I use Ipratropium/albuterol 4 times a day in nubulizer. Nothing else

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Thanks for answering my question. It hard to imagine that was nearly six years ago. BTW I am also on Breztri!

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