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Long-Haul Covid and Asthma Diagnosis (anyone)?
Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: Apr 4, 2022 | Replies (64)Comment receiving replies
Hello Everyone, I am new here and glad to find a group people who may understand me. 52, female. I got COVID in July, 2022. (So regret to go to CA for my son's tournament) Three days high fever and very bad throat pain. Then I felt better and just like a common cold symptom. However, three weeks later, heart beat increased and I felt shortness of breath. My SPO2 was around 95. Since then I started to use Symbicort 80/4.5 irregularly, on and off for two months. (A Pulmonologist prescribed for me .)The symptoms are easy flare up if I caught a cold or stressful with my life. I went to a POST COVID program and the doctor there gave me Trelegy 200. Have you ever tried this one? I feel it is too strong especially I haven't used a higher dose Symbicort yet. If I use Trelegy which is the highest level inhaler for Asthma, what can I use if the symptom get worse down the road?
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I find that using Symbicort as prescribed helps a lot. I am on 160/4.5, 2 puffs, twice daily. After about 5 weeks I felt improvement and messed around with single puffs and missed days and started feeling the symptoms again so went back to the prescribed plan. But I still thought (hoped) hmm maybe I can start getting of it so I messaged my pulmonologist about it. Was told to cut it in half, 1 puff twice daily. Nope, after about 3-4 days I felt distress and resumed the regular dosage. Frustrating for sure but consistency works. Only thing is I’m sooo hoarse! Any advice from anyone out there about that?