I have already noted my dissatisfaction with the new delivery method. I note, however, that the medication is not different. Proventil used the same formulation before and after the propellant change — there’s no difference in the medication.
Maybe no difference in your medication, but there is in mine and most others. As I noted above, the mole weights prove it, and the pharma and insurance companies are raping the patients (and taxpayers for Medicare/Medicade) for an unneeded and unwarranted environmental change. This is a rip-off, pure and simple.
“Proventil used the same formulation before and after the propellant change — there’s no difference in the medication.”
r9etb, if this is true, why does Proventil HFA state on its homepage:
“Rapid heart beat, vomiting, chest pain, and palpitation occurred more frequently with PROVENTIL® HFA.” (than with Albuterol CFC) See third line from the bottom of their homepage, LINK 4 on the petition (petition links are below).
Could it be the use of albuterol sulfate rather than albuterol base (which is used in CFC albuterol)? The use of HFA instead of CFC propellant? The combination of ethanol and oleic acid as an excipient rather than pure oleiec acid (which is used in CFC albuterol)? Or some interaction of the above? (Ethanol is listed as a toxic substance by the EPA, a Class 3 Residual Solvent by the FDA, exists in HFA inhalers (except for Ventolin) in doses high enough to register on blood alcohol tests, and has been shown to cause BRONCHOCONSTRICTION in a subset of asthmatic patients.) It is NOT the same medication.
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