Panic attacks and COPD

Where I am in Canada if I went to my doctor and said that I wanted a blue and a brown inhaler, he would think I was crazy!  I have a blue inhaler it's Ventolin and is the only inhaler I seem to be able to tolerate. They have prescribed many others for me to try and make me try them right in the doctor's office and then wait there to see how I react.  All of them except Ventolin has caused adverse reations, ie. make my breathing worse.  I was home alone and tried one at while back and could barely breathe after puffing on it.  Was at the point of calling an ambulance.  It's a pet peeve of mine to call inhalers by their correct name and not refer to them by color.  Not absolutely sure but thinking that most likely the inhalers could be different colors in different countries.  Thanks Michael.

Sometimes folks try describing meds on this site because too frequent use of brand names eventually leads to smackdowns by the moderator. I've been a little surprised that they're letting the Berlin (intentionally misspelled) name thru so much.

Here in Uk the colour of the inhalers would make sense. The most used inhalers for COPD and asthma here in UK seem to be Ventolin, blue,  and 

Becotiide which is brown.  Hope this might clarify my post. 

I get it Michael, it's just a pet peeve I have, to say it again.  Thanks for your message.

Oh dear I've been telling people that they should be using the proper names of inhalers and not the color of it.  Makes sense, I think?  Thanks for your comment.  

We're not all in the UK Michael!    But thanks for explanation anyway

There's nothing wrong with describing the medicine you are taking or asking if other's find bad side affects on a certain medicine, its when a person may link to a site where the medicine is being sold can be a problem with moderators, and rightly so.

In UK of course we don't need to buy our meds like people from US or Canada, so where on a Canadian or US site it may be acceptable in UK its not purely because it can be dangerous for people to buy drugs on-line, when its not been prescribed by their doctor but also it gos again Terms of use at Patient UK.

I would never buy a drug online and I don't know anyone that has ever bought medication online here in Canada.  More than likely there are people that do, I just don't know any personally.  It is not an acceptable thing to do in Canada, not sure about the States. 

Yes people from the States do purchase medicines on-line.

I am only mentioning to clarify its not because the moderators 'smack down on brand names', so to use names of medicines is perfectly ok.  On the other hand its not quite right to 'tell' people they must use the names of the meds either, carers for instance may know the colour of their partner's or relatives inhaler but not the actual name of the medicine, the person can still be supported.  It doesn't mean the 'carer' can't post the colour of the inhaler med their partner or relative is using.

We can of course choose what to answer or not answer, I do this often.

 

Understand totally now Vee.  Thanks !

People are prescribed different medicines, not all will be on either blue or brown inhaler, ventolin or beclometasone in UK.  Often people are on combination medicines like symbicort, or seretide for instance, many are also taking tiotropium as in spiriva.

I do believe though that ventolin is the blue inhaler is pretty standard in other countries.

 

I'm not sure if there is an issue or confusion here regarding moderating or not but if anyone has any specific queries you can private message me any time. There is an FAQ section linked below that may clarify things.

http://patient.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/topics/59133-discussion-forums

Re mentioning brands - this is not about medicines but other products that some users try to use the forums to promote.

Regards,

Alan

Thanks Alan,

I had just been thinking about the brand names of medicine myself but understand completely what you are saying regarding "other products that some users try to use the forums to promote."

My thoughts exactly.  Someone just said in a post on here that the too frequent use of brand names leads to smackdown by the moderators?

Doesn't make sense to me but then I'm not the sharpest tack in the box and never will be!  x

I don't think brand names are a problem, as far as I know it's links to other sites which they need to check out before allowing them in case they're seen to endorse something dodgy or unproven, which I think is a very good idea given the huge amount of dodgy internet sites.

Also, any suggestion that an illegal substance can help with COPD will be taken down, as I have personally encountered;  it's ok to contact each other privately but not to put certain information publicly on the forum, which is fair enough I reckon

 

I agree.  I have mentioned brand names on this forum several times and my comments weren't moderated. 

Brand names are a bit different to names of medicine.

But it all depend on what context a comment is made to another member using the forum for instance.  

If you are not properly familiar with the Terms of use Terry check them out, it could help avoid your posts being moderated unecessarily.

https://patient.info/terms-and-conditions

All links that are not patient UK will be held for moderation and if appropriate will be approved or if inappropriate will be removed.

I think a comment of mine was moderated once since I've been on this

forum.  Thanks for the link though Vee.