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I’m really glad I can get my asthma medication dirt cheap on the NHS in England.

maccard 3y ago
I get it for free on the NHS in Scotland. That said, ventolin inhalers are still cheap even after the propellant switch (which was in the mid 90's). Tangent, but I _despise_ the "easi-breathe" inhalers that my pharmacy gives to me (which are 10x the cost of the older ones). The feedback on the inhalation is shitty, the actual dispersion of the inhaler gets blocked, they use like 5x the plastic, and I've had to throw out most of the plastic shells before the actual inhaler is used because the little plastic tabs stop working. anyway.
- iamacyborg 3y ago
  Those things are absolutely fucking useless. I've taken to just popping the top off to press the button down. Fortunately I don't need to use my inhaler more than once every few months but when I do need it it's incredibly frustrating.
- einarfd 3y ago
  I had a look at demonstration video for easi-breathe, I guess it might be useful for some people. But for me it looked most like a solution in search of a problem, and I would probably be livid if someone forced those one me. You seem to be somewhat unhappy with the inhalers you are using, so something that you could look into is switching to ones that don't use propellant. I find that for me, they are nicer to use than the propellant ones. I initially switched for environmental concerns, but now I would be unhappy to switch back, even if they made a propellant one that was good for the environment. Btw. anyone that wants to try without propellant and gets pushback, play the I care about the environment, and I want to try card. Most people will fold in the face of that argument.
- pasc1878 3y ago
  That looks really bad. Even the old Intal Spininhalers look easier and they made a nice whizzing sound as the impeller span, but they had to be cleaned regularly as the powder stuck to the moving parts. The other think I note was the nasal inhalers worked well up to the mid 1990s then became painful. If you have a sore nose duue to hay fever the last thing you want to do in inhale water up your nose. The old inhalers I now guesses used CFCs and were nice to use. The suggestion by my grandmother for hayfever was to inhale salted water up the nose, I only tried that once - it hurt.

I get it for free on the NHS in Scotland. That said, ventolin inhalers are still cheap even after the propellant switch (which was in the mid 90's). Tangent, but I _despise_ the "easi-breathe" inhalers that my pharmacy gives to me (which are 10x the cost of the older ones). The feedback on the inhalation is shitty, the actual dispersion of the inhaler gets blocked, they use like 5x the plastic, and I've had to throw out most of the plastic shells before the actual inhaler is used because the little plastic tabs stop working. anyway.

iamacyborg 3y ago
Those things are absolutely fucking useless. I've taken to just popping the top off to press the button down. Fortunately I don't need to use my inhaler more than once every few months but when I do need it it's incredibly frustrating.
einarfd 3y ago
I had a look at demonstration video for easi-breathe, I guess it might be useful for some people. But for me it looked most like a solution in search of a problem, and I would probably be livid if someone forced those one me. You seem to be somewhat unhappy with the inhalers you are using, so something that you could look into is switching to ones that don't use propellant. I find that for me, they are nicer to use than the propellant ones. I initially switched for environmental concerns, but now I would be unhappy to switch back, even if they made a propellant one that was good for the environment. Btw. anyone that wants to try without propellant and gets pushback, play the I care about the environment, and I want to try card. Most people will fold in the face of that argument.
pasc1878 3y ago
That looks really bad. Even the old Intal Spininhalers look easier and they made a nice whizzing sound as the impeller span, but they had to be cleaned regularly as the powder stuck to the moving parts. The other think I note was the nasal inhalers worked well up to the mid 1990s then became painful. If you have a sore nose duue to hay fever the last thing you want to do in inhale water up your nose. The old inhalers I now guesses used CFCs and were nice to use. The suggestion by my grandmother for hayfever was to inhale salted water up the nose, I only tried that once - it hurt.