From the article: Asthma Treatment: What You Need to Know About Asthma Treatment
As asthma patients, how do we know when it's time for a new asthma doctor? What were the signs that made it clear it was time to find a new provider to care for your asthma? Was it a chain of events, or one last "final straw" that made you decide? Here, asthma patients share their own experiences about the moment they knew it was time to get a new provider for their asthma care.
A doctor that knows more than meds, meds
- There are many natural treatments and methods that help people treat asthma without all the medications (which have many terrible side effects). Doctors are under pressure to push meds and this is exactly why they don't even learn about natural options. One of the best new natural therapies is Salt Therapy in a Salt Room, which are just now spreading in the USA but have been used very successfully in Europe and Russia for more than a decade. Our 10-year-old daughter with moderate asthma was able to reduce 80% of meds even during spring, and now she's been off all meds for a month. Her doctor has seen the results, but he still has his 'reasons' for showing no real interest. To be honest, in the USA you simply won't find a REAL doctor anymore, so every person needs to take responsibility to find the best solutions and use the doctor for the fewer prescriptions you may need. This is where the internet is wonderful.
- —cyura
I'm pretty sure he was insane...
- Sadly I couldn't change my pediatrician when my asthma was bad since my parents thought he was the best thing to ever walk the earth. Either way I gave up on him after he told me I was faking to get attention despite the fact that I'm showing up in his office with my mom every day increasingly tired and irritable and still unable to breathe properly. Mom made me go to the ER to prove a point to him and he called it a one time thing. Let's just say that I ended up embarassing my parents so badly they won't take me anywhere near that doctor and let me switch doctors. I learned to control my asthma by keeping my breathing steady and haven't used any preventitve meds or rescue inhalers for almost three years
- —Guest Lilly
Asthma Treatment
- Asthma can be debilitating for many, so it was for me. My search for relief after lots of steroid abuse took me to natural therapies. These (Biogetica) products are a unique blend of eastern herbs and resonance homeopathic remedies, which work together to eliminate the root cause of asthma. These products helped me by reducing the intensity and frequency of my asthma attacks and controlled my sensitivity to allergens. They are the best alternatives to steroids and bronchodilators; safe and non habit forming.
- —Guest Casey
Changing asthma doctor
- Coming from Kenya,since my asthma stared,going to different doctor,all l have been getting for medication is ammninophilin and ventolin tablets.that is since 1989.
- —Guest Hadija
A chain of events with a final straw
- When, after a full month on Flovent, I wasn't improving, I told my doctor that it wasn't working. He said, "There's no reason Flovent shouldn't work for you. I think you're just exaggerating." and sent me away. This is despite the fact that I was short of breath in his office and going through a rescue inhaler every three weeks! That was the final straw, as I'd been seeing him for the three months after I found out that my "bronchitis" was really a worsening of my asthma, and in that time I was just getting worse. I changed doctors, and am now on 5 times that dose of inhaled steroid plus a LABA with my Advair 500, plus Singulair and an antihistamine, and this is the only combination of medications I've tried that keeps my asthma under control. A year later, I'm educated enough to know that was treating a moderate- to severe-persistent allergic asthmatic as if I were a mild persistent asthmatic with no allergies. Of course the treatment wasn't working!
- —Guest Sarah
New Asthma Doctor
- When I called and couldn't get my meds refilled or an appointment, I decided it was time for a new doc.
- —Guest Jason
