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Reviewer: cheryl, 65-74 Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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I have used "VENTLIN" for over 40 years. I recently was at my son's without my inhaler when I had an asthma attack. He gave me his Primatene mist to use... WOW !! WORKED INSTANTLY !!! I went to the drug store and bought 2 of them. I found that I didn't need to use the inhaler as much as I did with the Ventilin. I was constantly sucking on the Ventilin... but, with the Prim
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Reviewer: Bernie3rd, 45-54 Male on Treatment for 10 years or more (Patient)
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This is the best O.T.C. treatment for my asthma ALL the other meds. I am allergic to or cause very bad side affects to the resp. therapist when Ihave to go to the ER the first choise of med is eppe.shot and when a hosp. vist is 120.00 plus the shot is another 50 to 80 dollars who do you think are the real thives are. now the drug has been refourmulated to pass the FDA requirements and now they are
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Reviewer: TyneIrish, 25-34 Female on Treatment for 5 to less than 10 years (Patient)
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I loved this stuff. I would run out of my prescription in 2 weeks because it wasn't as effective. Not to mention my script was getting expensive with loosing my insurance. This OTC worked really well and really fast. It was nice to be able to get it anytime because the pharmacy around here isn't a 24 hour one and I couldn't always get my script refilled when I NEEDED it. Primatene was
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Reviewer: butch, 55-64 Male on Treatment for 5 to less than 10 years (Patient)
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very good
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Reviewer: CAT, 35-44 Female on Treatment for 2 to less than 5 years (Patient)
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This medicine will be pulled off the shelf in December of this year. Why?
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