Welcome to The Patient Experience – a new kind of patient forum

The Patient Experience is a set of discussion forums where patients connect, express their views and share valuable experiences on the subjects of medicine and healthcare. The forums are FREE and open to all.

The forums allow you to interact with other people in your situation and share information and experiences. Thus helping you on your journey through your or a loved one’s medical problems and challenges.

By sharing your story and learning from others The Patient Experience will provide a safe and place to help on the path to wellness.

The service is brought to you by The Patients Voice - a research community dedicated to healthcare and medical information. If you would like to participate in surveys and other kinds of confidential and anonymous research please click here for more information.

follow us!

Why not join the patients voice by clicking here.

Asthma Inhalers Blog

Hi I’m Belinda I’m your community manager at The Patients Voice.

Calling all Asthma Sufferers –
please tell us about using your Inhaler! :

Welcome to the latest research blog from The Patients Voice. The purpose of this page is to provide a space for asthmatics to tell their stories about treatment of asthma through the use of inhalers to provide bronchodilators for short term relief.

Typically this does apply to asthmatics but people with other conditions may also use the inhalers. If this is you we would love to hear your comments as well.

The kinds of things we are interested in especially are:-
  • How were you diagnosed with asthma? Have you previously been diagnosed with other conditions for the symptoms of asthma? What would normally trigger an attack?
  • How were you taught to use the inhalers? Who provided the training? Do you feel that this was enough for you?
  • Have you used an asthma spacer? If so was this an improvement over just the inhalers?
  • Is there any advice you would like to give to healthcare providers regarding the provision of education about this and other related conditions.
Thanks for your participation which is very much appreciated. It will be used to help frame a research study into the use of inhalers later in the year.

If you have any queries about the study please feel free to get in touch with me.

Best wishes
Belinda

Post to Twitter Tweet This Post Post to Facebook Post to Facebook