User Reviews for Combivent Respimat inhalation

I have been on combivent for many years and was switched to Respimat. Really useless drug delivery system. I need help breathing and this product is not even adequate, whoever approved this needs a new job. I am so disappointed and aggravated. I start coughing as soon as it hits the back of my throat, so I take it over and over and over hoping for relief. Color me one very unhappy customer. There has to be a better product.

I find this combivent is working for me, once I learned how to operate the inhaler, its easy to use.

Wow> I read all reviews and none were 5 stars. I've used Combivent for a very long time as it was the only inhaler that worked for me keeping my asthma from acting up. This new inhaler is a piece of garbage. 120 doses does not dispense as the company suggests. I too have taken the "empty" canister out and there was medicine left in it that couldn't be used. This inhaler does not last as long as it should. The company has all us users over a barrel, keeps changing the thing so they can keep charging us the most they can, and actually making the product worse. Sadly I'm going to have to see about changing to something else because I can't keep spending good money for something that doesn't last as long as it should. Hopefully I don't end up in the hospital.Read More Read Less

I HATE this new inhaler. I feel like I am inhaling TOXIC GAS. It makes me cough so much I literally pee my pants. I almost ended up in the ER after using this inhaler. I have asthma & Combivent has my a miracle inhaler for me since it came out. This inhaler scares me that my asthma gets 10x worse after using it. I went online & found duolin which is a generic of the original Combivent. It only cost $23/no tax,free shipping& my insurance doesn't have to pay another $200+ like the Combivent Respimat. I have my life back & asthma back under control. I understand about the clean air act, but I need to save my life right now not the air. Why doesn't the government start with hair spray, rodent spray, air fresheners etc instead of playing with peoples lives!! Read More Read Less

This is my second post here. The ineffectiveness of this product is causing me great distress. The actual mist itself is not going into my lungs as the majority of it escapes while you are trying to inhale it, no matter how tightly I seal my mouth around the mouthpiece. Again I repeat, when I am in distress I have little time to search for the almost inconspicuous grey button, twist it and then I almost always go for the larger of the two orange flaps to lift open the flip-top. I do not know with whom they tested this product on but it certainly wasn't with people with COPD and who are senior citizens. In my case I have stage III emphysema, and 63 years old. When I wake up in the middle of night gasping for air does Boehringer Ingelheim not realize the desperation one is in to have to fumble to turn the light on, put my glasses on, then follow all the steps accordingly just to open the darn thing and THEN NOT HAVE IT HELP ME??! I am seriously thinking this could be a CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT for I am beginning to wonder now how many people are out there where the old Combivent saved them from there time of trouble and the new, Combivent Respimat, didn't and they succumbed. This is a very scary thought to me and the likelihood of it happening is real. Somebody has to DO something, somewhere, somehow. DO WE NOT AGREE? Read More Read Less

As a senior I cannot open the cap without an instrument to lift it. Therefore, the dose release button is activated and sprays before I can get it to me mouth- T'is a waste of $$ for me. What alternate are others using?

The medicine often gets to the throat not the lungs causing choking feeling. Very ineffective. I am scared and don't know what to do without the old combivent inhaler. Combivent was the only thing that helped me, but no longer. Also, the container is too heavy and large to carry with you. It is not effective in controlling symptoms.

This medication was prescribed as a rescue inhaler for me. I have been using Combivent for almost two years with excellent results. Suddenly I have to use this new product that is supposed to be the same only better. Sorry Charlie...it is not, cannot be, nor ever will be a rescue inhaler. With Combivent you had two puffs as the prescribed dose. The first one began to open up the bronchial restriction immediately in the upper lung area. The second puff then could reach the lower area so one had complete relief of congestion. This 'machine' is only prescribed as a single dose application and cannot reach the area that requires the medication. You are left with a mouthful of bad tasting medicine and no relief from the breathing restriction. Also, this delivery system cannot be used as a 'rescue inhaler' as it takes too long to prepare it for use, especially if one hasn't used it for some time. I occasionally need it while I'm driving...this takes two arthritic hands to operate! PLEASE GIVE US BACK OUR MEDICINE!!!Read More Read Less

I have been using Combivent for years, had always work very effectively. But the new Combivent Respimat is not helping me at all and the apparatus is very cumbersome, who has time for all that when you literally cannot breathe! I am afraid I will have to change my medication and try something else. I hope the company "is" listening.

I left a review when I first got this medication months ago and still feel the very same way about it. This stuff MAKES ME SICK! Very little relief... take it wrong and all the med is in your mouth and it taste nasty. I'm sitting here wondering why I have a headache, why my chest aches, if I'm having heart trouble, might I have MS or something causing my muscles to ache. My Memory Stinks and I'm so tired. This can no longer be used as a Emergency Med as there is a warning not to take to many times daily... (read warnings) and it just doesn't work. People are correct... difficult to use... Elderly would have trouble getting the cartridge into the delivery system properly... I can't do it so give it to my hubby to do...taking it is another problem... you must try to catch your breath so you can breath it in and yet the reason you are taking it IS TO HELP YOU BREATH cause you are short of breath!! Daaahhh .... I have two other inhalers that give me relief but not sure what to say about this. It's time to start a diary fellow users and go day by day.... I'm Miserable with OTHER side effects. Of all the people to pick on they choose those who can't breath. This government makes no sense and I can only seeing more crappola happening with the Affordable Health Care Act.... Pray For Us! Read More Read Less

poor replacement for the old combivent. Is the company listening?

I have used the former Combivent for many years. Having now used the "new" form of it (Respimat) for 3 months, I've found that it is NOT as effective as the original version - - (even though it's alleged that the formulation is the same, and the only change is the delivery system). Speaking of the new "delivery system," the massive amount of hardware now being used is beyond comprehension. I've disassembled one and the assortment of components is not unlike a military tank - - which of course justifies the cost increase of approx. $50 per unit over the prior version. I've also found that the "new" version actually contains far more than the advertised "120" doses. Having disabled the locking mechanism which engages at the 120 dose limit, the new version actually contains more than 150 active doses. Interesting, huh....... With respect to other posts which attempt to justify the new version on the premise that it's "safer" for the environment, I dismiss those comments as being merely "Al Gore talking points." The new version is simply BH's method of extending its proprietary license, thereby ensuring that development and offering of a generic and much more economical version is many more years away.Read More Read Less

I need the old COMBIVENT back please. The new COMBIVENT RESPIMAT is leaving my chest feeling very tight. Also only getting four inhales of the new RESPIMAT doesn't seem like it's enough. This is serious, I'm scared!

I have COPD. I used the Combivent Aerosol Inhaler for seven years before the Respimat was issued. The Respimat just plain doesn't work. What little "mist" I can get into my lungs provides very little or no relief at all, and I have to inhale it very carefully to avoid choking on the medication. It's hard to believe that the FDA would go after fluorocarbons in inhalers, and it's even harder to believe that Boehringer Ingelheim can sell Respimat with a straight face.

How many people will DIE before they get it back where it was.The respimat does not work at all.

I came to see if I was the only one having problems with this new delivery system and its ineffective results. I have not seen any positive responses! I've used the "old" system for over 10yrs with very good results. This new system and medicine is useless. I can't believe that the new system was field tested before it was put into the market...nobody would release such a poor product. I think my dilemma is where to go next...there are not a lot of options. Much of what Boehringer Ingelheim has done is kill a very important and useful product. If the free market works someone will realize what has happened and come out with a very similar product to the old one. Only problem with that is that some of us probably won't be around to use it. Read More Read Less

I had to switch this this when they stopped making the old combivent which I had used for many years. It doesn't work for me at all. The delivery system is very complicated and awkward and the medicine sprays out before I can get it to my mouth. I can't imagine a person with arthritis being able to use it at all. I searched frantically and found last old combivents in town-I had to pay full price for them, but at least I will have them if I get sick. In the mean time I have switched to using the nebulizer and ventilin and refuse to by this horrible product again.Read More Read Less

I did not like this at all in the beginning but am getting more used to it. Sometimes it makes me cough so I feel I'm coughing out the inhalation. I also feel its not as effective as the old combivent inhaler.

Something is wrong with this medicine! They say its the same but its NOT. I have had no relief whatsoever. My ability to breathe has decreased dramatically. I cough and I mean COUGH all day and night now. When I use the medicine it gets worse not better. I can't get clear it feels like im real sick like pnuemonia again. I have that icky "sick" taste when I cough since I started using it. Not only can I not sleep no one else in the house can either. I have also lost my voice and am now going to an otolaryngologist and a speech therapist and they don't want me to cough because it is slamming my vocal cords together and damaging them. Ya right, just clear your throat they say by breathing out fast and heavy. Wouldn't that be nice! That sends me into a huge coughing fit. One therapist said in her 25 years experience she has only heard a cough that bad in one other person. Hard to believe but not if you heard me now. So are we all supposed to walk around with our nebulizers?? I went on a search today for any inhalers that might have been lost in a drawer,I can't do this anymore. Something is wrong with this medicine it is not the same and this needs attention immediately. I don't want to be one of the people that die from it before they figure out that its dangerous to use and oops we made a mistake maybe we should change it so it actually works!Read More Read Less

The inhaler just doesn't deliver the med to the lungs. I sure can't be as active.