Please dont take this the wrong way, but please do not give medical advice. Albuterol is just as dangerous cause it is a beta receptor stimulator and will give rapid heart rates, and can send you to tachycardia or even atrial fibrilation. Just by definition if you have to use a "rescue inhaler" ie albuterol more than once every two weeks it is considered that your asthma is not under control. Period. If you are using albuterol 3x daily forget about it. Do you know what causes asthma? It is caused by inflammation of the bronchioles. Albuterol has no effect on reducing that inflammation. It does short term relaxation of the smooth muscles to open you up a bit and as soon as it goes away, you still have the inflammation left behind. Hence, why you are using it so often.
To control asthma you have to control the inflammation. First line treatment for asthma should be Singulair 10mg daily for adults. It is a leukotriene inhibitor which prevents release of chemicals that cause inflammation due to response to allergens. We know that 80% of the causes of asthma are allergens related. Singulair is approved down to 2yrs old and an extremely safe drug. If after 60 days, you are still using your albuterol more than once every 2 weeks, then Singulair stays, but you add a inhaled steroid. Now, where i agree with you is that i am not a huge fan of combo drugs where a steroid and long acting beta stimulator such as Advair is used. I prefer just an inhaled steroid by itself. It has zero systemic absorption cause it only goes to the lungs, and reduces the inflammation. Most of the time, the combo of singulair, and inhaled steroid is enough to control the asthma. If not, then longer acting beta drugs such as found in Advair are used, and if that does not work, low dose 5-10mg of prednisone daily has to be used.
Why do you think people's hand shake and get all jittery when they use albuterol? it is basically same family of clenbuterol and terbutaline. To have so much cardiac stimulation 3x daily is very dangerous and highly un-advisable. I only say this and took the time to write this is because even not knowing you i still care about your overall well being and secondary to make sure that we are not spreading wrong medical advice.