Fluticasone / umeclidinium / vilanterol User Reviews & Ratings (Page 4)

• Jen...
• December 9, 2021

For Asthma "I started using Trelegy three days ago and have not used my rescue inhaler since. I typically use it three or four times a day and have chest tightness most of the time. I am breathing normally for the first time in my life. If I was not worried about future side effects. I have been on so many medications for asthma, and nothing has come close to the results I have had in the past three days. Just praying the results last and that I do not develop other side effects."

• Ine...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• June 14, 2022

For Asthma "I normally use Seebri, Flixotide, and Atrovent, and that was and is working very well. My lungs are 79% for 3 years now, but the lung specialist gave me Trelegy Ellipta because it's better and easier, well, never again. After using it, I started to shake badly and didn't feel good at all. I started to breathe differently. They tell you it's the same, just 3 in 1, but it is absolutely different. So tomorrow, starting my old medicine again. Let them inform you well before you try."

• biz...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• August 3, 2023

For Asthma "This drug is terrific for me. It stopped my eosinophilic asthma symptoms entirely. After 5 months, I still love it. The main side effect is hoarseness (despite gargling). I read online to take a tsp of Mylanta just after and so far that does help."

• Kol...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• September 16, 2021

For COPD "Since I have used Trelegy, my condition has become much worse. I was sent by the doctor's office to the ER by ambulance. I had horrific chest and back pain, as well as more coughing and phlegm. I have no energy at all. I took my last dose of this today."

• Bre...
• February 25, 2020

For COPD "Trelegy use made me not hungry and food taste gross. I now use Breo and Incruse and I don't get it, they are all made by the same company, but I don't get my food tasting bad by what I am using now. Trelegy for me has a $10 copay, and I spend $60 more in copays because what I'm on now doesn't make my food taste bad."

• Lil...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• July 2, 2021

For COPD "I immediately felt my throat become irritated, then within a few days I could feel it become swollen, I could barely swallow. I stopped taking it when this occurred. In addition, my joints ached. I also had excruciating back pain. Also, my breathing did not improve significantly. One positive, my blood pressure dropped. It's not the medication for me."

• P F...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• August 10, 2023

For Asthma "Trelegy works great for my asthma! I no longer wheeze or cough, but my tongue gets so raw. It burns like fire if I eat anything salty, and it burns if I drink Diet Pepsi. It clears up, and before I know it, the raw tongue is back. It might be a yeast infection or thrush, but I don’t know. I always rinse my mouth and gargle with water. I forgot to tell my doctor when I had my physical last week. I have been on Trelegy for 6 months."

• WHA...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• February 17, 2023

For COPD "All my physicians prescribed it for my COPD, but I used it as directed, and I could sense no special improvement, and I am slowly beginning to have more problems with blurry vision and urinary retention. Plus, two episodes of A.Fib, which required an emergency drip of Metoprolol to stop. I discontinued Trelegy Ellipta on my own, without asking physicians several months ago and have not regretted it. I won't be taking it again. It seems high risk for me without enough benefit. However, for most patients, I think the physician should be consulted before discontinuing."

• Vir...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• November 19, 2021

For COPD "Works absolutely great for my mild COPD maintenance. I found I could use it every other day. However, the pulmonologist is switching me, saying I don't need the steroid. The anticholinergic (umeclidinium) started creating a constipation problem, but this was expected and fixed with OTC stool softener (docusate Na). I got a bad cramp in my calf at 5 AM one night, so this was unexpectedly LOWERING MY POTASSIUM. Watch out for that one. Ridiculously expensive! Of course, that's not something unusual for this particular inhaler. Big Pharma loves you."

• Bre...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• February 10, 2021

For Asthma "After 2 weeks on Trelegy, an $800 air purifier and 3 humidifiers, one on each floor of the house, I'm feeling great! Have had asthma most of my life. No side effects yet! Have tried different inhalers that were not nearly as effective."

• cou...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• October 19, 2021

For Asthma "I have bronchiectasis, and I finally see improvement after years of coughing! Multiple sinus surgeries and antibiotics have given only temporary relief. Unfortunately, Trelegy is busy making commercials, but they make it impossible to get it covered by my insurance..."

• dar...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• January 4, 2019

For COPD "I am relatively new to meds for COPD, and am also finding the costs are ridiculously high. I have been appealing to my insurance company. I called customer service, and they helped me get the forms for the doctor to appeal, but have no results yet. But it's worth 'trying' at least. Maybe some of the others on here can try to appeal or ask for special consideration as well. Good luck to us all."

• Sue...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• March 5, 2025

For COPD "I am thrilled with this medication. I was recently diagnosed with COPD, then went to a pulmonologist who said I had emphysema. I had just recently had a couple of days where I had trouble catching my breath. I am a long-term smoker and really doing my best to cut down, but since I've been on Trelegy, I have had no issues breathing at all. I had to learn about rinsing my mouth from a fellow patient in the waiting room. She said she uses salt water, and so far so good. I got a month's supply from the hospital, a two-week trial from the pulmonologist, and he gave me a coupon for $0 money, but not sure how long that lasts."

• Ste...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• May 26, 2018

"I am 58, have had a heart attack and triple bypass when I was 41. I have bad sleep apnea and I am on a nose mask and have that under control, but still felt so tired all the time. I went to see a pulmonologist, found out I don't have COPD, but have me on Trelegy because I wasn't exhaling all my air. I've felt like a new man. I sleep better, have more energy, endurance, etc. I guess I was struggling when I breathe. Also, I am 265 lb, so hopefully since I am moving more, I'll lose weight. I haven't had side effects yet... been on it only a week..."

• Jun...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• April 11, 2020

For COPD "A wonder drug, it controls my chronic asthma magnificently. The asthma cough it does not. I still have that old dry cough. It might be an allergy. When you use it, be sure to rinse your mouth with water. When I first took Trelegy, the cough stopped from the shock of new medication but returned a month later. But my breathing is awesome."

• Sig...
• Taken for 1 to 2 years
• July 8, 2023

For COPD "I don't like it. It increases coughing and other side effects displayed. I just stopped for a week and got along fine with my rescue inhaler. Most times my breathing is ok. I am a great exerciser, walking climbing stairs gym and swimming. Most of it every day. I also am into natural remedies like Chinese and reject most common meds. I am 83 and try to live without this stuff."

• dog...
• Taken for 1 to 2 years
• April 9, 2022

For COPD "Started on Trelegy last part of 2019, didn't seem any better than Advair. Then, middle of 2021, my lungs started hurting on a daily basis. I stopped the Trelegy, and my lungs quit hurting. About that time, it seemed my teeth were imploding, falling apart, and I rinsed my mouth every time I used it. Now I have to try to get money for new teeth. I am retired and have limited funds."

• Dav...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• March 24, 2024

For COPD "Well I ran out of Trelegy almost two months ago...was struggling... oxygen at night, 3 or 4 Duoneb treatments a day. My oxygen level was staying in the 80s. When I went to the bathroom or exerted myself (just a little), the level would drop. I just got a new prescription yesterday morning. I used it as soon as I got home. This morning I woke up to my oxygen being 94. 4 hours later it was still 94. I didn't get winded going to the bathroom. Walked around outside some later in the evening, my oxygen level got down to 87. I haven't taken any more meds. 14 hours later my oxygen level is 92. I would definitely recommend it. I just pray it does as well in the long run. The two weeks before I got it, I was around sawdust. I coughed so hard for two weeks, my ribs and head hurt so badly that I wanted to cry. Tell you, I was much better not long after I took Trelegy."

• Ste...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• June 12, 2023

For Asthma "No problems with the results. However, thrush occurred. I rinsed my mouth faithfully after each dosage. I think we should know other types of rinses so that we don't get thrush so easily. There are home remedies."

• Stu...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• May 11, 2023

For Asthma "Switched from Breo to Trelegy recently, based on breathing expiratory tests indicated it might help. This is the height of my allergy season, when my asthma is at its worst. Rhinitis, sinusitis, whatever, it is stuffy head and stuffed-up noses, all make breathing deeply a chore. Trelegy does not seem to be working as well as the previous product, which I had only just begun using, and with good results. Trelegy does seem to improve breathing -- i.e., less 'air hunger,' but so did Breo. One negative side effect is weight gain. Not sure why, unless it is the steroids increasing my appetite. But two pounds in two days does not portend good long-term results. May go back to Breo if this continues, and see if same weight gain happens with that product too."

• Mic...
• November 23, 2021

For COPD "I started using Trelegy Ellipta for my COPD around 6 months ago. I was using Dulera & Symbicort for around 5 years. The Trelegy 200 that I was prescribed worked great for 2 months. I now have a worse breathing problem than I had before!"

• Anonymous
• Taken for less than 1 month
• November 29, 2021

For COPD "I was taking Trelegy for 10 days, was working well for me. After about three doses, I noticed my voice was becoming very hoarse. This continued to the point where I lost my voice completely. After approximately 7 doses, I immediately stopped using it. It has been 3 weeks since I stopped using it, and my voice is still not back to normal."

• YES...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• March 22, 2023

"Worked very well for a week, with less breathlessness, faster recovery, good energy levels, much less fatigue and tiredness, and a general sense of 'this is better.' Then on day 8, all the benefits vanished, and I was left with a foul-tasting mouth and flatulence that would clear out a World War One trench of a hundred conscripts."

• Blu...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• August 12, 2023

For COPD "Simply amazing. Years of docs ignoring my actual symptoms. By the time I was diagnosed, I was pretty far along to the moderate/severe stage. After the first dose, approximately four hours in, I immediately started feeling a noticeable difference in the way I was breathing! And then, at around the initial six-hour dose, I noticed that the way I was breathing had changed! Now, I was breathing from my diaphragm (from the upper stomach area) down from the upper chest (labored). And as my daily dose during the first 30 days rounded the 18th hour, I started to notice how my breathing reverted back to labored upper chest breathing. But by the 45th day of Trelegy, my breathing had stayed at the diaphragm level, keeping a nice easy breathing pattern ever since. Once, there was a 4-day lapse in between 30-day supplies and by the second day of that lapse, I was immediately back to a very scary breathing problem. I [love] Trelegy."

• Bar...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• December 4, 2021

For COPD "I have COPD and have been on every inhaler on the market. None of them give me enough relief to be able to carry out daily activities. The problem I find with all of the dry powdered inhalers is that most of the powder ends up in the back of my throat. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, or if anyone else has this problem, but it means that the medication is not getting into my lungs. I may have side effects from Trelegy, it's hard to tell since I have some side effects from all of them."