Quote Originally Posted by Catrin View Post
My doctor doesn't like my not taking any of those other medications - but it all appears to do the opposite of what it is supposed to
Catrin, if you haven't tried Qvar, I definitely recommend it...what you just said sums up my experience on Advair. In addition to the thrush I was hoarse, had a constant sore throat, and it beat my immune system to a pulp...I was coming down with every little bug and started feeling like a hypochondriac. Other people even started to comment about how often I was sick. As soon as I got off of Advair and onto Qvar I was fine.

A few months into Qvar our stupid mail order pharmacy messed-up and didn't send my refills on time. In a pinch I opened a remaining pack of Advair I had. Within 3-4 days of starting back on that I had a thrush outbreak and a cold (and some severe anger towards the mail pharmacy, for sure). No coincidence, there.