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Long-Haul Covid and Asthma Diagnosis (anyone)?

Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: Aug 2 8:42am | Replies (82)
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@mimioto

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?

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pht1123 | @pht1123 | Jul 24 9:01am

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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