What Are The Side Effects Of Tudorza?

Posted on Sun, 24 Sep 2017

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Question : COPD patient. New Dr changed med from duoneb to levalbuterol & tudorza. Having progressively bad side effects from Turdoza - cannot continue to use. Levalbuterol prescribed for 3 times daily. That is not enough to sustain reasonable breathing. can I increase the dosge or stop both new & return to duoneb? You advertise immediate answers. I can't wait 24 hrs to resume reasonable breathing.

Answered by Dr. Prof. Kunal Saha (4 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Can be done

Detailed Answer:
Thanks for asking on Healthcaremagic.

Yes you can try increasing the dose and see if it helps. You can also switch to Duoneb.

I am sorry that you had to wait. Sometimes the number of queries is overwhelming and bence the delay.

Regards

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar