He has mild to moderate COPD. Has anyone had experince with this medecine? good or bad. does it help COPD?
2006-11-07 06:44:25 · 5 answers · asked by frannie 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Respiratory Diseases
This is a great medication, I was around when it was just introduced in the clinical setting and after, there are a lot of people who have regained lung volumes! Thought never to be able to happen with copd patients.
The answer is right about not using atrovent, what it does is because sprieva is a longer acting atrovent they compete for the same receptor and if you have too much atrovent in there the spireva is just wasted and useless.
spiriva is great!
2006-11-07 19:14:02 · answer #1 · answered by steveangela1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have COPD. I have used Spiriva for maybe two years or more.
It is so difficult to tell someone about a drug because we are all so different. I swear by Advair and I have a friend that stopped using it because she said it made her worse. It is wonderful for me. There are so many different stages to this disease.
I have learned about the mental portion of the disease lately. It is a challenge every day, because you don't know what is going to happen to you or your breathing.
So, basically your husband has to try it for maybe a month and see how he feels. It might not take that long to know. But I have heard a lot more good than bad about it. My primary doctor and my pulmonary doctor both want me on it.
2006-11-07 16:39:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spiriva is used by many COPD patients in the respiratory clinic I work at. Of course, not ever medicine works on everyone, and COPD varies greatly between people, it might not. He may see improvement quickly, but sometimes people need a few weeks of CONSISTENT use to see that. If after a few months of using it EXACTLY AS DIRECTED he doesn't see an improvement, he can talk to his doctor about it.
2006-11-07 14:48:20 · answer #3 · answered by Cobalt 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have used it in the clinical setting, and it has good results, but you are not supposed to used atrovent in a nebulizer while you are taking this, spiriva and atrovent are the same thing and you can have bad side effects, spiriva is a kicked up version of atrovent
2006-11-07 18:10:30 · answer #4 · answered by LV 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had really bad asthma attacks and now take Spiriva every morning. WOW! What a difference! Never out of breath and so much more energy!
2006-11-07 14:50:22 · answer #5 · answered by bellydancer 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋