4 Common Triggers of SOB (Shortness of Breath)
Learn about 4 common triggers that can cause shortness of breath.
See the triggers
Pulmonary Rehabilitation: The Basics
Pulmonary rehabilitation (or rehab) is a program of exercises, under the guidance of trained breathing specialists, that can help you gradually build up your physical fitness and manage your condition.
Learn more about pulmonary rehab
Pursed-Lip Breathing
A breathing trick to help control shortness of breath
"Pursed-lip breathing" is a convenient breathing exercise that you can do anytime—first thing in the morning, at night before going to bed, or when you are engaged in activities like climbing stairs or bending to lift something.
And it provides a quick way to help you breathe better.
Learn it in 3 simple steps
Start a Conversation
Maintaining an open conversation with your doctor about your COPD is important in managing your condition.
This Doctor Discussion Guide can help you remember, record, and report what you need to talk about with your doctor.
Your Doctor Discussion Guide
Understanding Emphysema, Chronic Bronchitis–COPD & Asthma
Both emphysema and chronic bronchitis are considered to be progressive lung diseases that fall under the general term COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Asthma is a different lung disease, but can sometimes be mistaken for COPD because of similar symptoms.
How, then, do you tell them apart?
Learn the difference
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SYMBICORT Side Effects
As with any medication, it is possible for you to experience some side effects with SYMBICORT. It’s important to be aware and tell your doctor if you have any side effects. SYMBICORT doesn’t interact well with certain medicines, so you should tell your doctor about all the medications you are taking.
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COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). What is it?
COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, is a progressive disease of the lungs that makes it hard to breathe. “Progressive” means that it gets worse over time. COPD includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
Symptoms may include:
- Shortness of breath
- Coughing
- Wheezing (a whistling sound made while breathing)
- Tightness in the chest
Symptoms of COPD can begin to show
as early as age 40.
Learn more about COPD
What Are the Symptoms of COPD?
If you experience most of the following symptoms on a regular basis, you may have COPD and should talk to your doctor:
- Constant coughing or a cough that produces a large amount of mucus—also called smoker's cough
- Shortness of breath especially while doing activities
- Excessive mucus production
- Chest tightness—feelings of not being able to breathe easily or deeply
- Wheezing—a high-pitched whistling sound made while breathing
Symptoms of COPD can begin to show
as early as age 40.
Learn more about COPD symptoms
COPD Diagnosis
Your doctor will use a combination of your medical history, physical exam, and lung function tests to diagnose COPD and determine how severe it is.
Learn more about COPD diagnosis
COPD Treatment Options
COPD currently has no cure, but it is treatable. There are steps you can take to help manage your condition.
Overall, the goals of COPD treatment include:
- Relieving your symptoms
- Slowing the progression of your disease
- Improving your ability to stay active
- Preventing and treating complications
- Improving your general overall health
Learn about available COPD treatment options
SYMBICORT & COPD
To help improve your lung function, your doctor may want you to take a maintenance medicine—a medicine taken every day to help ease constriction and control inflammation in your airways.
SYMBICORT is a maintenance treatment used to help significantly improve lung function in COPD. When used as prescribed, SYMBICORT—an inhaler—has been shown to help patients breathe better starting within 5 minutes.*
*Your results may vary.
SYMBICORT may also help reduce your need to use your rescue inhaler.
Remember, SYMBICORT will not replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms.
Learn more about SYMBICORT
SYMBICORT could help you breathe better starting within 5 minutes.*
*Your results may vary.
SYMBICORT will not replace a rescue inhaler.
SYMBICORT can help open up your airways and decrease inflammation by combining 2 different medicines. When taken as prescribed—twice a day (morning and evening), every day—SYMBICORT has been shown to significantly improve lung function.
Learn more about the benefits of SYMBICORT
Start a Conversation
Maintaining an open conversation with your doctor about your COPD is important in managing your condition.
This Doctor Discussion Guide can help you remember, record, and report what you need to talk about with your doctor.
Your Doctor Discussion Guide
SYMBICORT & COPD
To help improve your lung function, your doctor may want you to take a maintenance medicine—a medicine taken every day to help ease constriction and control inflammation in your airways.
SYMBICORT is a maintenance treatment used to help significantly improve lung function in COPD. When used as prescribed, SYMBICORT—an inhaler—has been shown to help patients breathe better starting within 5 minutes.*
*Your results may vary.
SYMBICORT may also help reduce your need to use your rescue inhaler.
Remember, SYMBICORT will not replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms.
Learn more about SYMBICORT
SYMBICORT could help you breathe better starting within 5 minutes.*
*Your results may vary.
SYMBICORT will not replace a rescue inhaler.
SYMBICORT can help open up your airways and decrease inflammation by combining 2 different medicines. When taken as prescribed—twice a day (morning and evening), every day—SYMBICORT has been shown to significantly improve lung function.
Learn more about the benefits of SYMBICORT
Getting the Most Out of Your SYMBICORT Inhaler
It’s important to use your inhaler exactly as prescribed by your doctor.
To use SYMBICORT effectively:
- Take 2 puffs of SYMBICORT in the morning and 2 puffs in the evening, every day
- Do not take more than 4 puffs per day
- Do not use more than twice a day
- Your inhaler should last you 30 days if you are taking 2 puffs twice a day
- Use the actuation counter to monitor your doses
Remember, SYMBICORT will not replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms.
Read more and watch the video
What to Expect
When taken twice a day as prescribed, SYMBICORT has been shown to help significantly improve lung function, starting within 5 minutes.*
Remember, SYMBICORT will not replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms.
*Your results may vary.
Learn more
SYMBICORT Side Effects
As with any medication, it is possible for you to experience some side effects with SYMBICORT. It’s important to be aware and tell your doctor if you have any side effects. SYMBICORT doesn’t interact well with certain medicines, so you should tell your doctor about all the medications you are taking.
Learn more
4 Common Triggers of SOB (Shortness of Breath)
Learn about 4 common triggers that can cause shortness of breath.
See the triggers
Pulmonary Rehabilitation: The Basics
Pulmonary rehabilitation (or rehab) is a program of exercises, under the guidance of trained breathing specialists, that can help you gradually build up your physical fitness and manage your condition.
Learn more about pulmonary rehab
Pursed-Lip Breathing
A breathing trick to help control shortness of breath
"Pursed-lip breathing" is a convenient breathing exercise that you can do anytime—first thing in the morning, at night before going to bed, or when you are engaged in activities like climbing stairs or bending to lift something.
And it provides a quick way to help you breathe better.
Learn it in 3 simple steps
Start a Conversation
Maintaining an open conversation with your doctor about your COPD is important in managing your condition.
This Doctor Discussion Guide can help you remember, record, and report what you need to talk about with your doctor.
Your Doctor Discussion Guide
What Are the Symptoms of COPD?
If you experience most of the following symptoms on a regular basis, you may have COPD and should talk to your doctor:
- Constant coughing or a cough that produces a large amount of mucus—also called smoker's cough
- Shortness of breath especially while doing activities
- Excessive mucus production
- Chest tightness—feelings of not being able to breathe easily or deeply
- Wheezing—a high-pitched whistling sound made while breathing
Symptoms of COPD can begin to show
as early as age 40.
Learn more about COPD symptoms
Understanding Emphysema, Chronic Bronchitis–COPD & Asthma
Both emphysema and chronic bronchitis are considered to be progressive lung diseases that fall under the general term COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Asthma is a different lung disease, but can sometimes be mistaken for COPD because of similar symptoms.
How, then, do you tell them apart?
Learn the difference
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COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). What is it?
COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, is a progressive disease of the lungs that makes it hard to breathe. “Progressive” means that it gets worse over time. COPD includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
Symptoms may include:
- Shortness of breath
- Coughing
- Wheezing (a whistling sound made while breathing)
- Tightness in the chest
Symptoms of COPD can begin to show
as early as age 40.
Learn more about COPD
COPD Diagnosis
Your doctor will use a combination of your medical history, physical exam, and lung function tests to diagnose COPD and determine how severe it is.
Learn more about COPD diagnosis
COPD Treatment Options
COPD currently has no cure, but it is treatable. There are steps you can take to help manage your condition.
Overall, the goals of COPD treatment include:
- Relieving your symptoms
- Slowing the progression of your disease
- Improving your ability to stay active
- Preventing and treating complications
- Improving your general overall health
Learn about available COPD treatment options
Getting the Most Out of Your SYMBICORT Inhaler
It’s important to use your inhaler exactly as prescribed by your doctor.
To use SYMBICORT effectively:
- Take 2 puffs of SYMBICORT in the morning and 2 puffs in the evening, every day
- Do not take more than 4 puffs per day
- Do not use more than twice a day
- Your inhaler should last you 30 days if you are taking 2 puffs twice a day
- Use the actuation counter to monitor your doses
Remember, SYMBICORT will not replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms.
Read more and watch the video
SYMBICORT could help you breathe better starting within 5 minutes.*
*Your results may vary.
SYMBICORT will not replace a rescue inhaler.
SYMBICORT can help open up your airways and decrease inflammation by combining 2 different medicines. When taken as prescribed—twice a day (morning and evening), every day—SYMBICORT has been shown to significantly improve lung function.
Learn more about the benefits of SYMBICORT
SYMBICORT & COPD
To help improve your lung function, your doctor may want you to take a maintenance medicine—a medicine taken every day to help ease constriction and control inflammation in your airways.
SYMBICORT is a maintenance treatment used to help significantly improve lung function in COPD. When used as prescribed, SYMBICORT—an inhaler—has been shown to help patients breathe better starting within 5 minutes.*
*Your results may vary.
SYMBICORT may also help reduce your need to use your rescue inhaler.
Remember, SYMBICORT will not replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms.
Learn more about SYMBICORT
What to Expect
When taken twice a day as prescribed, SYMBICORT has been shown to help significantly improve lung function, starting within 5 minutes.*
Remember, SYMBICORT will not replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms.
*Your results may vary.
Learn more
Call A Nurse
We have a call center with registered nurses and staff who have been trained to answer questions and help patients learn to use the SYMBICORT inhaler. You can talk by phone or by live video chat.
Monday to Friday,
8 AM–6 PM ET
Information provided by our nurses and staff does not replace the advice of your physician or other health care professional. The call center nurses cannot provide diagnosis or treatment advice to callers.
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SYMBICORT contains formoterol, a long-acting beta2-adrenergic agonist (LABA). LABA medicines such as formoterol increase the risk of death from asthma problems. It is not known whether budesonide, the other medicine in SYMBICORT, reduces the risk of death from asthma problems seen with formoterol.
- Call your health care provider if breathing problems worsen over time while using SYMBICORT. You may need different treatment
- Get emergency medical care if:
- Breathing problems worsen quickly, and
- You use your rescue inhaler medicine, but it does not relieve your breathing problems
SYMBICORT should be used only if your health care provider decides that your asthma is not well controlled with a long-term asthma control medicine, such as an inhaled corticosteroid, or that your asthma is severe enough to begin treatment with SYMBICORT.
If you are taking SYMBICORT, see your health care provider if your asthma does not improve or gets worse. It is important that your health care provider assess your asthma control on a regular basis. Your doctor will decide if it is possible for you to stop taking SYMBICORT and start taking a different long-term asthma control medicine without loss of asthma control.
Children and adolescents who take LABA medicines may have an increased risk of being hospitalized for asthma problems.
SYMBICORT does not replace rescue inhalers for sudden symptoms.
Be sure to tell your health care provider about all your medical conditions, including heart conditions or high blood pressure, and all medicines you may be taking. Some patients taking SYMBICORT may experience increased blood pressure, heart rate, or change in heart rhythm.
Do not use SYMBICORT more often than prescribed. While taking SYMBICORT, never use another medicine containing a LABA for any reason. Ask your health care provider or pharmacist if any of your other medicines are LABA medicines.
SYMBICORT may cause serious side effects, including:
- Using too much of a LABA medicine may cause chest pain, increase in blood pressure, fast and irregular heartbeat, headache, tremor, or nervousness
- Fungal infection in your mouth or throat (thrush). Rinse your mouth with water after using SYMBICORT to help reduce your chance of getting thrush
- Pneumonia and other lower respiratory tract infections. People with COPD may have a higher chance of pneumonia and other lung infections. Call your doctor if you notice any of the following symptoms: change in amount or color of mucus, fever, chills, increased cough, or increased breathing problems
- Immune system effects and a higher chance for infections. Tell your health care provider if you think you are exposed to infections such as chicken pox or measles, or if you have any signs of infection such as fever, pain, body aches, chills, feeling tired, nausea, or vomiting
- Adrenal insufficiency. This can happen when you stop taking oral corticosteroid medicines and start inhaled corticosteroid medicine
- Increased wheezing right after taking SYMBICORT. Always have a rescue inhaler with you to treat sudden wheezing
- Serious allergic reactions including rash, hives, swelling of the face, mouth and tongue, and breathing problems
- Lower bone mineral density can happen in people who have a high chance for low bone mineral density (osteoporosis)
- Slowed growth in children. A child’s growth should be checked regularly while using SYMBICORT
- Eye problems including glaucoma and cataracts. You should have regular eye exams while using SYMBICORT
- Swelling of blood vessels. Signs include a feeling of pins and needles or numbness of arms or legs, flu like symptoms, rash, pain and swelling of the sinuses
- Decreases in blood potassium levels (hypokalemia)
- Increases in blood sugar levels (hyperglycemia)
The most common side effects in patients with asthma include nose and throat irritation, headache, upper respiratory tract infection, sore throat, sinusitis, flu, back pain, nasal congestion, stomach discomfort, vomiting, and thrush in the mouth and throat.
The most common side effects in patients with COPD include throat irritation, inflammation of the nasal passages and throat, thrush in the mouth and throat, bronchitis, sinusitis, and upper respiratory tract infection.
Approved Uses for SYMBICORT
SYMBICORT is a medicine for the treatment of asthma for people whose doctor has determined that their asthma is not well controlled with a long-term asthma control medicine such as an inhaled corticosteroid or whose asthma is severe enough to begin treatment with SYMBICORT. SYMBICORT 80/4.5 is for the treatment of asthma for children 6 to less than 12 years. SYMBICORT 80/4.5 and 160/4.5 are for the treatment of asthma for people 12 years and older. SYMBICORT is not a treatment for sudden asthma symptoms.
SYMBICORT 160/4.5 is for adults with COPD, including chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
You should only take 2 inhalations of SYMBICORT twice a day.
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