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Long-Haul Covid and Asthma Diagnosis (anyone)?
Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: Aug 2 8:42am | Replies (82)Comment receiving replies
A side effect of inhaled steroids is hoarse voice. If possible, see if there is an inhaled steroid which may be in a different form, which may help with the hoarseness. There are many available. Also, if you use a powder inhaler vs HFA inhaler, you may notice a difference. Inhaled steroids are recommended to keep the lung inflammation decreased and consistent. Everyone is different, but the basic premise is the same. Symbicort is a combo steroid med - maybe changing to a single med steroid inhaler will be helpful. Good luck.
(I speak as a fellow asthmatic and asthma educator).
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Thanks for that. I’ve been through quite a bit since then. I was able to go off for several months and did ok but still some nagging phlegm production after eating! Way too much acid production. Long story short I landed with allergy/ immunology who put it all together as a mast cell disorder and I’m now on cromolyn sodium liquid, a mast cell stabilizer to calm those babies in my stomach, 4x/day, Hr2 and H1 blockers. I use albuterol as needed. No inhaled steroid; no hoarseness. Just this week she prescribed Spiriva Respimat. I’ll pick it up today. An ongoing mess for sure. Long covid is cruel! But those mast cells seems to be the culprit. Histamines, cytokines in my case, pulmonary function is fine though, yay!
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Do you know if there is any inhaler that works that the steroid is cortisone? I have tried a few and it raises my blood pressure or gives me a rash. I'm am now just doing albuterol but that is every 4 hours.