| # | Name | Comments | US State |
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| 1 | As an asthmatic who was recently forced to switch to HFA albuterol, I can say from experience that HFA is not a suitable alternative. The propellant is weak, and delivery depends greatly on the ability to breathe deeply. The studies that I have seen showing that there is no difference between CFC and HFA version of albuterol test its preventative effects before excersize. I am greatly concerned that HFA albuterol will not be as useful in life-threatening when an asthmatic can't breathe well. Please consider allowing CFC propellants for this life-saving medicine. | WI |
| 2 | Please save the CFC inhaler, I just cant live with the HFA any longer | IL |
| 3 | It is so unfair to those who need the inhaler to survive yet they want to reduce the size by half and increase the cost twice as much or more. Also the new products are not as effective. I forsee lawsuits for these new products when the inhaler is not as effective from the family members that loose loved ones in the process.
There has got to be a better solution to this. | FL | Anonymous |
| 4 | DONT BAN THEM! I NEED IT!GOOD PETITION!-lol | VA |
| 5 | | CA |
| 6 | | OK |
| 7 | | ID |
| 8 | The main problem with the HFA inhalers is that they don't work. They do not provide the relief the CFC inhalers do, for the thousands of us who depend on inhalers to function normally and productively. The difference is alarming. My own readings on a peak flow meter, to cite a personal example, DO NOT CHANGE after using Pro-Air HFA. There is no improvement and my life has changed abruptly because of this. Please restore our albuterol inhalers so we can breathe. Altering a medication for non-medical reasons (and dispensing an inferior product) is bizarre. | PA |
| 9 | If this is USA's contribution to pollution control, it's the most insane thing this administration has done yet. We all know it's not for the environment - but another way to take from citizens & give to the drug industry. I'll go to Mexico for my drugs, since it's okay for their drug runners to come here (Johnny Sutton's immunity for the drug smuggler & inprisonment of border agents Ramos & Compean). How many more ways can you screw up this country?! | AK |
| 10 | | WA |
| 11 | Unbelievable ! | CA |
| 12 | | CA |
| 13 | | CO |
| 14 | SAVE THE INHALERS! | AK |
| 15 | SAVE THE INHALERS! | AK |
| 16 | | CO |
| 17 | The albuterol inhalers are affecting us!!!!
How could the government be sooo grrrrrr.....
Right now Im not really caring about the ozone layer...
Im a PROUD tree hugger and I won't be able to do that if you KILL ME!!!!!!
Yes, we need to keep our world out from destruction but we need PEOPLE to do it...
I WILL SUE!!!! | MA | Anonymous |
| 18 | My daughter has been hospitalized many times in th past for asthma. Finally it was under good control, & she had been doing great. After she got her last inhaler, she has not been doing well - her lungs won't clear up, & she is coughing all the time. I called the pharmacy & the dr, & found out that the inhaler is different due to no fluorocarbons, & the propellent is different. Frankly, that propellent is useless. The inhaler ran out far more quickly, meaning not only does it NOT WORK, I have to spend twice as much money & she has to take more doses, for it to NOT WORK. Frankly, I don't understand why her health is now put at such great risk, & why people were not informed of this. You CANNOT make such a big change without having a comparable substitution, & this is NOT comparable. People with asthma are not expendable just to save one little iota of the ozone layer. I know 2 people who have died from asthma attacks - this is not a small thing. Go back to what was out there, until you have a comparable replacement. This is completely unacceptable. | MI |
| 19 | My granddaughter suffers from asthma. This new inhaler is causing her major problems. This is not something that should be played around with. People with delicate health should not be made to pay the price of the global warming panic and not enough scientific facts to back the theory up. Their very lives are at stake. This will affect 3 people in my close family. .. both monetarily as well as the more important issue of their health. Their very lives are at stake. | MI |
| 20 | | OR |
| 21 | I used ProAir HFA and had a terrible reaction to it. It did not work at all, and actually made my asthma worse, as well as my overall health. I felt like I might die of an asthma attack if I didn't get my regular inhaler so I rushed to another pharmacy and luckily they had a few of the Warrick CFC left. I am very scared for my life. I am going to try the Canadian pharmacies once my CFC runs out and I hope that their formulation is better than the cruel joke of ProAir. I can't believe this is happening to us. Just let us breathe! Am I having a nightmare? Someone please wake me! Please bring back CFC inhalers! | WI |
| 22 | HFA inhaler sent me to the ER because it did not open up my airway before I passed out and had to be revived. Because my life depended on the inhaler, I know how to use them properly. They simply do not "rescue" me. Only the CFC inhaler can rescue me. So many children will be condemned to home and will not be able to attend school once they have to be tethered to a nebulizer. Please, somebody, care, enough. | NC |
| 23 | | NC |
| 24 | | MD |
| 25 | First off, does anyone who has participated in the ban of the current CFC's have asthma?
I have tried ProAir (should be called ConAir) and did not like it. I have also used Proventil HFA which to me worked better but I prefer the Warrick CFC. It does not have the horrible after taste, does not irritate my throat like the current HFA's do and gets down into my lungs to do the job that it is ment to do. I am also concerned about the side effects of the Ethanol in the current HFA inhalers. Not to mention side effects for pregnant women using these HFA inhalers who need the medication to live. I safely carried and delivered 2 babies using my Warrick CFC inhalers. And what about the dr's who are prescribing the ProAir to children who are under the age limit set by the pharmacutical company that makes the inhalers?! Someone needs to take a serious look into this ban and make some decisions based on safety of a product that has been on the market and tested by millions of asmatics and COPD patients vs products that have been given to us without a choice that many many people are complaining about not working for them. People who rely on these inhalers should not need to worry about going to the hospital (or worse yet, dying!) if their rescue inhaler does not resue them.
Please read the Protocol and protect our rights to keep these CFC inhalers. | WA | Anonymous |
| 26 | | NC | Anonymous |
| 27 | | IL |
| 28 | | NY | Anonymous |
| 29 | CFC's are the only kind which work for me.
The new ones are useless. | FL |
| 30 | Simply put these new inhalers do not work as well as the CFC versions. I have tried the ProventilHFA and the new propellant is not powerful enough for the medicine to reach the lungs where it belongs. We are told to inhale deeper, but how can we inhale deeper while having an asthma attack? Isn't the point of the propellant to force the medicine into our lungs when we CAN'T "breath deeply"?
I am for saving the environment too, but not at the cost of human lives. Bottom line, even with the "negligible" amount of CFC that these inhalers release, they keep us asthma sufferers ALIVE! Why in the world would you ban them and then turn around and allow them be replaced them with alternatives that do not work? The CFC inhalers need to stay until a SUITABLE and EQUALLY effective alternative can be found that wont make asthma sufferers' lives harder than it already is. People are going to die because of this and the blood will be on your hands for allowing this happen; I foresee many lawsuits.
I will no longer put my life in jeopardy using these new HFA inhalers, and I will continue to stock up on the CFC inhalers so I can have ones that actually do their job of allowing me to BREATHE! | GA |
| 31 | The CFC ban and subsequent HFA experience for me has truly been a bad dream, but I cant wake up from this one. I have been a life long asthmatic and a decades long user of CFC inhalers - I know how to use them! The new HFA inhalers are inferior and a pathetic offering as a substitute for the CFC inhalers. I've tried the ProAir and Ventolin HFA's. My side affects were: a persistent cough, chest pains, brochspasms, and chest inflamation. I stopped using the HFA's and luckily found a stash of CFC's at a local pharmacy. It's been 5 months since I stopped using the HFA's and I still get a little winded doing simple tasks not to mention that I have developed something akin to a "smokers cough" in the morning when I first wake up (no-I'm not a smoker). Yes - I know my symptoms sound a little "dramafied" but I'm a real person and they really happened. I will never use another HFA inhaler, I will use a portable nebulizer instead (what a pain). I've have written my congressman and senator, signed a MedWatch complaint form, emailed and called the American Lung Association and I encourage everyone else that hasn't to do the same. By the way, why was CFC inhalers a first priority? There's so many other, BIGGER, contributing factors to global warming! Hello, Mr. FDA, would you please allow me wake up now? I'm tired of this bad dream! | NC |
| 32 | My asthma is mild, but I still carry an albuterol inhaler to use when I am short of breath. I have tried in good faith to use the ProAir; however, it makes my asthma symptoms worse. It makes me even shorter of breath, it makes me wheeze, and it increases my heart reate considerably. I have been able to secure a few Warrick albuterol inhalers for the time being, but I don't know what I will be able to use effectively in its place. I just thank God I haven't needed to rely on the ProAir during a severe pulmonary crisis, and I pray for those who do. This is a horrible, ineffective, and dangerous method of attempting to deliver albuterol into the lungs. Please review the claims on this petition and seriously consider the consequences for those people who rely on albuterol to take a breath, which is something that nonasthmatics take for granted. A medicine should relive symptoms, not make them worse. Worsened symptoms for asthmatics can easily mean death, as you should be aware. As it stands, we will soon have no alternative to the poison that is in ProAir. | LA |
| 33 | | NY |
| 34 | these hfa inhalers have set me back to a consition that i have not suffered in 20 years. i would rather be on long term po steroid therapy and suffer the long term adverse systemic effects rather than use these hfa inhalers. i have thought a couple of times that i would end up in the ED with a full blown attack, and i have not been in status asthmaticus in 2 decades!! hfc's are shite, in my opinion! | FL |
| 35 | | CA |
| 36 | At first came the shock of the price of the ProAir HFA inhaler. Then, after months of using it, and not getting much relief, I finally have learned that many other people are also not getting relief from these new inhalers. How many asthmatic people have to die in order to make an infinitesimal improvement in the ozone layer (if any effect at all?). Please give us back generic CVC albuterol inhalers. | CO |
| 37 | I was switched from Albuterol to the new drug. It doesn't work as well and I am NOT happy at all.... | CO |
| 38 | I cannot believe this is happening. What are we to do when we have an asthma attack and can't breathe? I need my inhaler to live | PA |
| 39 | Banning Albuterol inhalers has to be one of the most lame brained stunts pulled yet! I am a nurse, and I know how important these inhalers are to pulmonary patients. I also know that the use of these inhalers is not going to impact on the ozone layer---and so do the people who want to ban them! It's a shame when common sense will be bought out in the name of a bunch of nutzo environmentalists and so-called political correctness! Give me a BREAK! | MO | Anonymous |
| 40 | How can anyone take away inhalers when people will dy without them. They cannot breathe ! Stop this
it's ridiculous. | MD | Anonymous |
| 41 | | FL |
| 42 | The new inhalers are terrible.
Doesnt feel as if anything but air comes out.
How can an inhaler pollute the atsmoophere? | NV |
| 43 | Its not a good change if it leaves some people without working medications. Surely leaving CFC inhalers alone will not significantly damage the environment. | FL | Anonymous |
| 44 | | ID | Anonymous |
| 45 | | TX | Anonymous |
| 46 | | FL | Anonymous |
| 47 | it is terrible that the government can accept and approve useless medication. it costs more for the patients to use and does not help clear up asthma symptoms. Shame on the government for allowing this to happen | NY |
| 48 | The decision to ban CFC inhalers MUST be reversed immediately! There are studies that prove the amount of CFC's used in asthma inhalers have a NEGLIGIBLE impact on the earth's ozone layer. I think it is completely irresponsible of the FDA to ban proven safe and effective medication. This is
definitely not in the best interest of asthma and COPD patients. Based on the increasing number of complaints I have seen about the HFA inhalers being less effective, I strongly feel HFA inhalers are not an adequate alternative to existing medication for many people. | MN |
| 49 | My niece uses an inhaler, she has asthma, it is an important part of her medical help. | AL |
| 50 | Save the old inhalers. The "new" ones do not work effectively at all. This is a serious situation. No joking around!!!!!!!! | SD |