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Will Missing The Singulair Medicine Cause The Asthma Attacks?
I have had lifelong asthma with chronic bronchitis. I have been on a regimen of long-acting beta-2 receptor agonists with corticosteroids and a daily leukotriene receptor antagonist...( briefly serevant bid, with pulmicort bid and singulair at bedtime...)...Anyway--I have recently had 2 or 3 bad asthma attacks (the like I haven't seen since I was on this regimen beginning 10 years ago)....My question is the following: can you become more and more dependent on a drug like Singulair? [I noticed that recent attacks corresponded with my having forgotten to take the Singulair...]. What would be your advice?
Mon, 25 Aug 2014
chronic asthmatic bronchitis does become steroid responsive .Dependence may not be appropriate term as the pathology has to be countered by medications.some medicineshave to continue long term and should not be withdrawn seeing benefits derived, although sometimes,specialist like to modify dosage or introduce more potent or effective substitution drugs, depending on clinical response and status of disease condition from time to time.So, leave it to your doctor and stop worrying, just follow the advise and give feedback to him periodically for unusual signs and symptoms
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