Xolair
Hello everyone, I have been recently retired (medically) from the Army and I have questions! My doctor wants to put me on Xolair for my poorly controlled allergy induced asthma. What I would like to...
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Chris, Welcome to VBN. None of us are medical experts aka Physicians. Best thing you can do with such questions is look up the medication on Google and see what the links say about it.
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Upon further review...I believe that this comment should have been placed in the general claims section. But thanks for the info Brian!
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At this time, the drug(s) you take for asthma does not affect your rating. Ratings are based on pulmonary function test scores.
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lvacjoub, That is not completely accurate if you read the rating schedule corresponding to bronchial asthma. PFT's are a part of the rating scheme but medication does play a part. Xolair is new drug...
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you are quite right - ratings are most often made based on PFT's; I didn't read the rating schedule completely. THIS time, I did. I also checked the M21 manual and as far as I can tell neither "...
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I am currently rated 30% for asthma which I believe to be inaccurate (ie too low) given my symptoms and current medications. The introduction of Xolair is due to to the fact that my asthma is poorly...
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This stuff is not a corticosteroid the use of which at least 3 times of year would warrant a 60% evaluation. (I checked one guy on whom I have records and he is rated at 60% based on the PFT. He uses...
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