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I got all the way up to the highest dosed advair disc and it worked well for me. I decided to get off of it and try to control my asthma with other means and the thing I've noticed the two times I've come off advair is that I feel like I have that tightness in my chest and cant get a full breath even when sitting, but it subsides after a week. I've had asthma since I was 10 months old and I'm 29 now. Hospitalized once when I was a kid. Been on a lot of meds in my life. The thing that has ALWAYS worked for me was the albuterol inhaler (I felt they worked better before the law made them change the propellant, could just be a negative placebo to change though). Also when my cardio is good I suffer A LOT less from my asthma. I usually take one MAYBE two puffs of albuterol before I lift, run or swim and will be fine. I also use a device called the iron man power breathe. Works pretty damn good for my asthma. I weighed about 230lbs and ran a 10k with an 8:06 pace per mile. I honestly think adding that to my running and inhaler routine helped me A LOT.
NO it wasnt your imagination, the CFC propellant was much much better than what they use now. WHen I used to be able to just use one puff maybe two, now I have to use 3 puffs because the medicine isnt propelled out very wel. That new propellant sucks ass. The new ones cost 4x what the old did too. i used to be able to get 3 inhailers for like $10 and now it costs me over $40 and they dont work nearly as well. Bullshit greenhose gas crap.