User Reviews for Combivent Respimat inhalation

The Combivent Respimat is very ineffective compared to the regular Combivent. I have to take more doses than they recommend just to get what little relief it gives me. So far no bad side effects from taking extra doses. They need to change the delivery system or the formula or something because it realy doesn't work well at all.

I was forced to change to this new inhaler on 8/20 until 9/4. I had almost no relief during that time. I was using it correctly. It was better than nothing but that's the best I can say about it. I called around and found a drug store that still had the aerosol in stock. I got the last one. I'm not sure what to do when this one runs out.

While the old 'dunk the canister in water' technique left a lot to be desired in terms of getting an accurate read on the amount of medication remaining, it was apparently far better than the new 'counter'. Including the four activations required for set-up I have spun the bottle and pressed the release button exactly 120 times on this new canister...yet the counter shows exactly half that--60 activations with another 60 still to go before depletion. Dumb!

I do not like the new combivent respimat at all. I use it like a rescue inhaler and this new mist does not work well at all. The older system forced the meds down into your lungs. When you use the new delivery system you have to try to inhale it when you are having trouble breathing.....doesn' t make to much sense to me. I mean how many CFCs are actually going into the air??? Can't be more than the big trucks driving down the road.

Causes coughing when I try to inhale the vapor.

this is another way to keep a good medicine (the old Combivent off the generic market and make a killing doing it. One problem I have is a cough reflex that pushes all the med out. Another is getting enough air out of my lungs to inhale a whole dose.

I feel like I am having withdrawals! I had been using the old Combivent inhaler for years for my asthma/copd and it worked immediately. No other inhalers compared. The new Combivent Respimat, DOES NOT work. First time I used it, I was coughing so bad, it caused me to pull muscles in my chest, which sent me to the Doctor. Now, the only relief I can get is using the nebulizer with albuterol, when all I had to do prior, was quickly use the old inhaler. It helped wheezing and gave an instant breathing relief. This costs me sixty seven dollars with insurance. I am sooo disappointed.Read More Read Less

I thought I would suffocate for the 3 weeks I took this stuff that the EPA and FDA decided was good for me. The old aerosol Combivent worked well, but evidently it spews out more pollution than that garbage truck that goes by my house every Thursday. I had saved one of the aerosols before I started the new stuff so I've got 25 days to find something else that works.

I hate the new packaging. Several times when I have turned the cartridge, the medicine will be released before I push the button. I estimate at least 30% of the time, I had to prime the cartridge at least twice before I could use. very wasteful.

This new Combivent Respimat is worthless. I thought I was getting worse with my breathing and all along it was the "New" inhaler. Stop changing things that work ! I took the old Combivent for years with no problem.

I used Combivent Aerosol Inhaler as Asthma rescue for many years (I'm 70 and very active outdoors ). The new product says it's intended for COPD, not asthma rescue. I need fast-acting rescue, not 4-times-daily treatment. I need NOT to have to prime the device when I have not used it for several days.... It gives me a headache, and it leaves a bad taste in mouth and numbing sensation on tongue. Further, children and seniors (and many people in between) have great difficulty manipulating the complicated dispenser. THIS IS NOT A GOOD SUBSTITUTE FOR THE COMBIVENT INHALATION AEROSOL inhaler. Put your thinking caps back on, and come up with a real, effective, fast-acting, side-effect free alternative that we can AFFORD.Read More Read Less

You use this drug as an emergency treatment because you cant breathe, I will get back to that.The aresol Combivent forced the medicine into the lungs to help you catch your breath. You see when you use this you cannot breathe and the whole point is to get it into your lungs so you can! The new combivent just gives you a mouthful of medicine because you CANNOT BREATHE TO GET IT IN THERE! Understand? there is no push to force it into your lungs thats where the aresol comes in. So the medicine in the new Combivent goes nowhere and so does the money you used to buy a product that does not work and a very expensive one at that. so you made a product that does not work, you made a product that is VERY expensive and you made a huge amount of people go elsewhere because of your greed and cheap expensive crap! I to am going elsewhere but i thought i could use a freebie at your asses!!Read More Read Less

I have used Combivent for many years and it always relieved my symptoms. This new system is worthless. It is heavy and complicated to use. Anyone who has any disability if the hands will find it frustrating. Plus it does not relieve my symptoms.

The Combivent with the gas in it has the force to push the medicine into your lungs, unlike the Combivent respimat. I have C.O.P.D. and at times i do not have the capacity to breathe in to get the medicine into my lungs. So if you can't breathe in its no use. I am sure there is some type of gas to get in there. Also there is alot of medicine left in the canister even when it says empty. I took it apart when it said 0 left and it would not turn and when i pulled the canister out medicine ran all over my hand quite alot, in my opinion about 50 left!! Whats up??Read More Read Less

I used the regular Combivent Inhaler for years and worked for me as a rescue inhaler and when out and away from my other medications. It actually helped me from using as much of my other inhaler medications. This new Combivent Respimat is a nightmare in several ways. First it is not very affective, if at all. Second it’s hard for me to use with a pinched nerve in my hand with all of that pushing and twisting. Third it is heavier and larger for storage on person. It looks good in theory but is a nightmare in real use. Plus if I could breath the way they want me to use it I would not need it.Read More Read Less

Respimat is not as effective as the old Combivent. It is not fast acting - not even acting. Find no relief. Have a horrible taste in my mouth and even find it hard to breath after using. Want the old back. Will ask my doctor for another product on next visit. I used the old Combivent for 10 years and found it be releave tightness in the chest and help me to breath better instantly.

I have chronic asthma and have been using combivent for a few years now. The new form in the respimat inhaler just doesn't work. It says 120 doses. I am lucky if its giving me 90. It is not very fast acting, and during a severe asthma attack it is difficult to inhale the whole dose. Its more expensive than the old inhaler. I'm sorry, but the asthma / copd sufferers of the world are nit the cause of global warming. STOP playing with the medications that work. Its just another reason keep generic forms off the market. Read More Read Less

I used a Combivent Inhaler for many years as a bronchodilator and rescue inhaler. The Combivent Respimat is worthless for both uses. I don't believe the medication in mist form is the same as the old form and does NOT work as well. I will be getting a prescription for Atrovent and using that and Albuterol from now on. The FDA should quit changing the medications we take that work. Those of us that have COPD are not the reson for the ozone depletion!!

This item is useless for me. It cut my doses in half. With the old dispenser Icould feel relief almost immediately,I feel nothing with the respimat. I want my old medicine back.How can this respimat be a resque inhaler?