#***asthma inhaler***

[hafwen]

PSA: If you use a spacer with your inhaler you need to wash it

[anyroads]

I did a fellowship once that involved going on a two day trip so we all went together in a van and on the way back we gave this girl a ride and she spent the whole drive doing two things simultaneously:

- talking about how cell phones are pointless, no one needs them, she doesn’t have one and she gets by just fine

- borrowing people’s phones and using up their minutes to make calls to find a ride after we were dropping her off and to organize the rest of her life for the near future

Hey OP was that also you

@ people who carry bags everywhere what do you put in them what is there to bring other than chapstick, keys, phone and maybe a tampon why are you packing a suitcase to be outside for 5 hours

[reasonsforhope]

Less than three months after U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin and her colleagues launched an investigation into the four major American manufacturers of inhalers, three of the companies have relented, making commitments to cap costs for their inhalers at $35 for patients who now pay much more.

25 million Americans have asthma and 16 million Americans have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), meaning over 40 million Americans rely on inhalers to breathe.

Inhalers have been available since the 1950s, and most of the drugs they use have been on the market for more than 25 years.

According to a statement from the Wisconsin Senator’s office, inhaler manufacturers sell the exact same products at a much lower costs in other countries. One of AstraZeneca’s inhalers, Breztri Aerosphere, costs $645 in the U.S.—but just $49 in the UK. Inhalers made by Boehringer Ingelheim, GlaxoSmithKline, and Teva have similar disparities.

Baldwin and her Democratic colleagues—New Mexico Sen. Ben Ray Luján, Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders—pressured the companies to lower their prices by writing letters to GSK, Boehringer Ingelheim, Teva, and AstraZeneca requesting a variety of documents that show why such higher prices are charged in America compared to Europe.

As a ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Baldwin recently announced that as a result of the letters they had secured commitments from three of the four to lower the out-of-pocket costs of inhalers to a fixed $35.00 rate.

“For the millions of Americans who rely on inhalers to breathe, this news is a major step in the right direction as we work to lower costs and hold big drug companies accountable,” said Senator Baldwin.

A full list of the inhalers and associated drugs can be viewed here.

It’s the second time in the last year that pharmaceutical companies were forced to provide reasonable prices—after the cost of insulin was similarly capped successfully at $35 per month thanks to Congressional actions led by the White House.

-via Good News Network, March 25, 2024

[spacerockband]

asthmatic reigen

[meatmensch]

hate it when lame dudes in movies use inhalers and then...don't by the end of the movie? like they've become not-lame and they have moved past the need for their inhaler. bro getting up the courage to kiss your girl best friend does not mean your asthma has been cured. wtf

[petoskeystones]

everyone has to pick a franklin expedition crew member to write a self insert novel about (your call on romance or not) and i call torrington and jartnell (theyre a set). my self insert is taking them shopping at the mall and then we are going to a frat party where jorrington will learn about vaping and jartnell will learn about standing awkwardly in a kitchen.

[steampunkferretpresents]

I have really bad asthma and I just really want someone to make me one of Cooper’s inhalers that will fit my albuterol vial in it.

[rou-luxe]

it's allergy season. i'm about to die like gilbert von obsidian

[queerstudiesnatural]

hello fellow inhaler users <3

just thought i'd share this kickass website i found

the inhaler tailor is selling little inhaler outfits that make your inhaler look cuter and can also be attached to a keyring, among other perks

there are like 50 different designs and as someone who always has one of these with me and also likes cute and whimsical stuff i am so happy to be able to dress up my inhaler so it matches my vibes. i got one with dinosaurs on it personally 🦕🦖

[chicago-geniza]

Today is payday...remind me to hit up the Logan dispensary this weekend, I need Edibles for my Insomnia and Neuropathy and Soon-to-be-Unmedicated Epilepsy lol

[mental-mona]

This has some important tips on the proper technique for using an inhaler, as well as some extra tips on preventing mouth & throat irritation.

[dinosaurwithablog]

🤣🤣🤣 I love House!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[tj-crochets]

So I always, always have my phone on me because I have various health issues that could make me end up on the floor so it's a safety thing for me, so I can always call for help. I'm not sure how common that is though?

This poll partially inspired by conversations with my grandma, who does not keep her phone or her Life Alert button thing with her but probably should

[lemon-russ]

not warhammer, medical rambles-

all my food has been real food today ✨

as in not soup or meal shakes soft noodles or the like lol, I finally am at a point where I'm eating more than mush again.

I just have to be careful now till the gastroenterologist I was referred to hopefully calls at some point so I can get an appointment for new steroids, because the ones I was on were discontinued to avoid having their patent go generic. It's also for asthma so like. It's sucked for a minute. no breathing, no swallowing, they also discontinued their emergency inhalers so I had to switch brands on that too and it's rough.

so like. Thanks US healthcare and big pharma for killing off my medications to avoid having to make it for cheap ✨ real cool thing you did there.

that steroid inhaler was an off label hail mary everyone used for my condition too. I don't qualify for insurance to cover the new monoclonal antibody treatments they have for it either, so im just shit out of luck if they don't have a replacement one. and now will need a procedure to reopen my esophagus anyway.

ANYWAY yay solid, chewable food again yaayyyy

[promptsforyourwhumpfic]

Whump Prompt #1166

Anon asked:

Do you have any specific whumps for the aftermath of some sort of inhaled poison/smoke?

I want the whumpee, who heroically escaped from a magic fire, to be begrudgingly weakened by asthma-like symptoms. 

Sure:

Some symptoms for this could include:

Tightness in the chest

Shortness of breath

Chest pain

Gasping for breath

Fatigue

^ The above causing things like light-headedness and anxiousness/panic. This could also result in the whumpee fainting. 

Further symptoms could include:

Blue/pale lips

Confusion

Difficulty walking/talking

These can all be exaggerated by the whumpee having to physically exert themselves/talk a lot in the aftermath of the fire. 

If this is a fantasy setting, maybe their lips turn the colour of the smoke (so green smoke = green lips.) This makes it harder to hide.